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

Exos and IronWolf drives show spinning rust isn't going anywhere Seagate has released two 30 TB hard drives based on its HAMR ...

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 ...

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.

Western Digital expects new high-capacity drives featuring microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) technology to take spinning hard disk technology into the next decade. With capacities of up ...

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 disk-drive business has been a turbulent one, marked by plunging prices and stiff competition.The average sales price for desktop drives fell from $401 in 1992 to $77 in 2002, according to J.P ...

Disk-drive makers Maxtor and Seagate Technology beat analysts' earnings expectations Tuesday, another sign of good times for the industry. Maxtor reported earnings per share, excluding charges, of ...