IBM today launched three hard disk drive products — the Deskstar 120GXP, Travelstar 60GH and Travelstar 40GN — that include its magnetic coating technology, nicknamed pixie dust. The new technology, ...

It's difficult to believe how far technology has come since the mid-1950s. At a time when "I Love Lucy" and "The Honeymooners" were hit shows with nightly audiences, IBM was busy developing one of the ...

IBM is using an extra dash of pixie dust to add gigabytes of storage to its notebook hard drives. New Travelstar hard drives for notebooks announced Wednesday boost maximum capacity from 60GB to 80GB, ...

Hitachi Ltd. announced four new hard disk drive products today and formally launched Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc., a new company comprising Hitachi’s and IBM’s hard disk drive operations.

Writing Zeros Thomas Jensen reports that using Apple's Disk Utility to write zeros to a faulty Travelstar or Deskstar hard drive can help reduce frequency of clicking sounds, and other problems: "I ...

If you lived through the '70s or '80s, you probably remember a time when technology was big. TVs, with their cathode ray tubes, were monstrous. Amplifiers and hi-fis were heavy, bulky, expensive ...