After decades of overly rosy availability predictions, Seagate announced in late 2024 that it was finally delivering ...

The creation of a new magnetic molecule could pave the way to build new, stamp-sized hard drives capable of holding the equivalent of 40,000 CDs' worth of music—that's three years of nonstop tunes!

Magnetic disk drive storage was born in the 1950s—thanks, IBM!—but while storage density and power efficiency have rocketed, the lifetime for which data can be stored has remained about the ...

The magnetic hard disk's tenure as a critical part of the storage technology mosaic is entering its sixth decade, and it shows no sign of ending any time soon.

Toshiba projects that this technology could enable 10 Tbpsi magnetic recording (current products are up to 1.2 Tbpsi today), and substantially increase hard disk drive capacity.

Almost all computers today store their digital data as magnetic areas on a device called a hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk. Basically, all hard drives work the same way: Information is encoded ...

The knowledge may help engineers design more reliable materials for disk drives. Correcting even a single typo in an e-mail means changing dozens of bits of information. For each bit, a magnetic head ...

Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feetu2014and in tons. ... One box held 40 24-inch dual-sided magnetic disk platters; ...

"It gets second shrift," said Al Hoagland, 79, who worked on the team of IBM engineers who built the magnetic disk drives back when Silicon Valley was still mostly orchards.

Nanotechnology will replace magnetic disk drives in iPods, laptops and servers within five to 10 years, making them more durable, lighter and faster. That’s according to Michael Kozicki, a ...

New research brings models of magnetic avalanches much closer to reality, helping physicists understand both why they happen and why they don't run out of control, wiping disk drives clean.