Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. However, they're quickly becoming ...

A disk refers to the physical storage medium itself, such as the magnetic platter in a hard disk drive (HDD) or the flash memory in a solid-state drive (SSD). It is the actual physical material that ...

What is a hard drive? It’s a common question and one that we’re more than happy to answer. Whether you are looking for ways to upgrade your hard drive, trying to buy a computer with the right hard ...

Broadcasters wanting the most cutting-edge solutions for digital video storage can consider emerging solid state “flash” memory systems for professional use, but spinning disk drives and digital tape ...

Improvements in recording densities, read/write heads, interfaces, and reliability ensure that rotating magnetic-media will be around for quite some time. In the hard-disk drive landscape, 3.5-in.

The 2018 IEEE TMRC Conference was put on by the IEEE Magnetics Society and had a focus this year on advancing HDD technology, particularly with heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and microwave ...

Over the last few years, much of the enterprise storage market has focused on flash technology, but the hard disk drive (HDD) format has plenty of life in it yet. It is true that flash storage offers ...

External hard drives back up your most important files, but what happens when they malfunction? Here's what to do if your device is not detected by Windows or macOS. Our team tests, rates, and reviews ...

Carmela writes in with a question after wiping a 2010 MacBook Pro and reinstalling macOS: I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but while erasing the disk I erased not only “Macintosh HD” but ...

In this post, we will show you how to find out the file system of a drive on a Windows 11/10 PC. There are various file system types with distinct characteristics and features. While some file systems ...

More than half of the new notebook PCs sold worldwide in the fourth quarter of 2009 will use some form of flash memory for data storage rather than traditional hard disk drives, according to market ...