IBM manufactured magnetic disk storage devices from 1956 to 2003, when it sold its hard disk drive business to Hitachi. Both the hard disk drive (HDD) and floppy disk drive (FDD) were invented by IBM ...

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

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

HDD unit shipments will be up about 2% in 2024 versus 2023 and shipped capacity will be up about 39%. By the 2030's we could have 200TB HDDs and 576TB tapes.

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.

When disposing of an old computer, there is really only one way to securely erase the information on the hard drive: destroying the magnetic disk (also called a platter) inside. To begin ...

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

As noted by Tom's Hardware, where we first saw the HAMR coming down, Seagate seems to confuse Exos M and Exos M 3+ when it comes time to promote its literally hot hard drive tech. Presumably, early ...

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