A disk's surface is divided into concentric tracks (circles within circles), and the thinner the tracks, the more storage. The data bits are recorded as magnetic spots on the tracks in one ...

Although magnetic disk storage did not take hold until the end of the 1960s, IBM actually introduced the first disk-based computer in the mid-1950s. Although RAMAC (above) was direct access ...

Magnetic storage makes use of a magnetisable coating ... Be more robust - a magnetic disk could be ruined by dropping it, because its moving parts may be damaged.

Western Digital unveiled an ambitious roadmap for advanced storage technologies at a recent investor day meeting. It plans to leverage two advanced storage technologies in the ...

Among the prototypes being displayed at CES is a compact SSD unit, which can provide extra storage or act as a backup disk without having ... secondary screens. The magnetic connection on the ...

The first hard disk with a capacity of 36 TByte comes from Seagate. The manufacturer combines the Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) of its 32 TByte version with overlapping data tracks ...

Seagate announced shipments of Exos M hard disk drives, HDD, samples to customers with up to 36TB storage capacity. These HDDs use the company’s Mozaic 3+ heat assisted magnetic recording ...