Hot stuff Heat-assisted magnetic recording is set to boost the storage capacity of hard disks still further. (Courtesy: Seagate Technology) When it comes to storing data, you might think that magnetic ...

If you look for a desktop or laptop PC, you’ll see that with very few exceptions, the hard disk drive (HDD), which has served us for decades, is no longer offered as an internal storage medium.

A Spinning Potato: It's 2024, and hardware manufacturers are still competing to see who can produce the highest-capacity hard disk drives on the market. Seagate recently introduced its HAMR-powered ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Covering Digital Storage Technology & Market. IEEE President in 2024 In this piece we talk about Huawei’s innovative response to ...

At long last, engineers at Florida International University have found a way of breaking the 2D limitation of magnetic hard drive storage. By moving to three dimensions, the researchers have massively ...

The first storage media — paper tape and punched cards — were inefficient, slow and bulky. These gave way to magnetic storage: core memory, drums and, finally, hard drives. For backup, there were ...