In the past week, Seagate Technology launched a 30TB hard disk, featuring advanced new storage technologies to increase ...

Standard internal hard drives operate at 5400 RPM, too, although you can find faster options that increase the speed to 7200 RPM. The faster rotation speed allows for quicker reading and writing, ...

A reader asks what a solid-state drive is, why it costs more than a hard drive, and whether it is different from memory. ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK asks the experts.

Human beings have a hard time dealing with numbers that get really big. The speed of light, the number of atoms in apparently ...

Standard hard drives were also not designed for long-term archival use. You can almost never decouple the magnetic disks from the reading hardware inside, so if either fails, the whole drive dies.

Standard hard drives were also not designed for long-term archival use. You can almost never decouple the magnetic disks from the reading hardware inside, so that if either fails, the whole drive ...

We've seen this coming over time: Based on the Trusted Computing Group's standard, hard drives and solid state drives (SSD), are offering self-encryption built-in.

Q: I have a new HP laptop with Windows 11, a 256GB solid-state drive (SSD), and a 1TB standard hard drive. The SSD is labeled Windows (C:) and the HD is labeled DATA (D:). It’s apparent that ...