eg - the 640Gb WD Scorpio blue (2.5") - does the dual platter improve read/write/access times (a la RAID) or is it purely an exercise in increasing capacity?<BR><BR><BR>I am about to pull the trigger ...

Have any dead hard drives kicking around? Hackaday alum [Jeremy Cook] shows how easy it is to disassemble a hard drive to scavenge its goodies. The hardest part is having the patience and the tools to ...

I wanted to get a huge 20tb or more platter drive. Just for storing movies, apps and other stuff that I want to keep for awhile. I would transfer them over to my 990pro when needed to be used. Mainly ...

Samsung has taken advantage of rising hard-disk memory storage densities to launch a new line of high-end products with capacities of up to 1TB. The Spinpoint F3 line, announced on Tuesday, uses ...

Hard drives are cheaper per terabyte compared to SSDs, which makes them great for mass storage. Large platter drives are more reliable for long-term data storage. Desktops often support more ...

Another 1TB entry has made it into the desktop hard drive market, with Samsung's addition to their high density 7200RPM SpinPoint F1 unit. While they have been quiet about it, this new drive actually ...

Seagate unveiled the first 3.5-inch hard drive featuring 1TB of storage capacity per disk platter, breaking the 1TB areal density barrier to help meet explosive worldwide demand for digital content ...

Even if many modern systems eschew classic hard drive storage designs in favor of solid state alternatives, there are still a number of companies working on improving the technology. One of those is ...

For more than 50 years, hard disk drives have run on air. That’s about to change. Western Digital is preparing to launch a line of hard drives filled with helium gas that is said to drastically reduce ...

This week’s post on core rope ROM was pretty popular. [Joey] wrote in with a book recommendation for those that found the project interesting. Digital Apollo discusses the technology which NASA built ...