A disk's surface is divided into concentric tracks (circles within circles), and the thinner the tracks, the more storage. The data bits are recorded as magnetic spots on the tracks in one ...

Seagate is finally offering its largest-ever hard drive – a staggering 32TB in a single drive, made possible by ...

It’s been more than two decades since Seagate began working on heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) — and now the company ...

The primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish ...

A new hard drive based on the long-promised heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) technology is almost here. Tom’s Hardware ...

This will be the first of my projection articles for 2025, focusing on magnetic recording technology, particularly hard disk drives (HDDs) and magnetic tape. The general recession in HDD demand ...

After years of talk, Seagate announced about a year ago that its advanced engineering team had developed HAMR (Heat-Assisted ...

IBM's invention of the hard disk drive revolutionized data storage by allowing random access to data, as opposed to the sequential access used by earlier storage methods like magnetic tape.