Standard computer hard drives spin continuously at 7200 RPM, only stopping after a prolonged period of disuse. ... but it reads all other information straight from the disk.

Western Digital's OptiNAND technology optimizes and integrates hard disk drives with an iNAND embedded flash drive, which should improve drive capacity, performance, and reliability. Since 2004, I ...

Seagate has released two 30 TB hard drives based on its HAMR technology, pitching them as more energy efficient cheaper ...

Mac OS X has an option to keep hard drives spinning for quick file access, or to save power and reduce noise by spinning them down when they're not in use. This can be convenient, but is rather ...

The computer hard drive, once 14 in. or more across, is now no bigger than 3.5 or 5.5 in. in diameter, with those in laptops and handheld devices at 2.5, 1.8 or even 1 in. Hard disks spin at ...

For example, hybrid drives combine NAND flash cache memory with a spinning disk in a hard-drive form factor. ... a 7200-rpm 2.5-inch hard disk drive with 16MB of DRAM ($112 to $262).

At the same time, spinning disk hard drive per-gigabyte prices have largely remained static, at $0.05/GB for SAS and $0.035/GB for SATA drives.

This was a display of history-making hard drives, ... Quantum in 1985 came out with the Hardcard, the first spinning disk drive connected to a card. Capacity was only 10MB.