Unlike a conventional disk-based hard drive, which stores data on a spinning platter or platters accessed by a moving magnetic head, an SSD uses a collection of flash cells—similar to the ones ...

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Seagate is finally offering its largest-ever hard drive – a staggering 32TB in a single drive, made possible by tech which uses lasers to heat and cool tiny sections of a platter in a nanosecond ...

Western Digital announced its 32TB SMR drive in October, giving it a short lead on Seagate. The drive is aimed at data ...

Seagate hit another milestone in its long-running journey of developing heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) hard ... 32TB storage drive. Western Digital got there with an 11-platter design ...

The Mozaic 3+ 32TB drives are now in mass production and will soon be available for purchase. Seagate elaborates on the challenges of increasing data capacity on disk platters. To enhance hard drive ...

Most hard drives, until recently, were mechanical HDDs. These have moving disks (called platters) inside, where the data itself is written and read. These traditional hard drives have largely ...

It wasn't all that long ago when external hard drives used to be enormous cubes, that made black box recorders on commercial airliners look petite in comparison. Today, the vast majority of them ...

The best external hard drives and SSDs for Chromebooks can provide a workaround for limited or slow local storage space on your laptop. This is especially important when even some of the best ...