Why Is the First Drive on a Computer Called C and Not A?

Some things we don't think much about; we just accept them. But have you ever wondered why the hard drive on a Windows system ...
ABC7 San Francisco

Class action settlement in computer disc drive case

If you bought a computer between 2003 and 2008, you probably have some money coming to you. It's part of a class action settlement against six makers of computer disc drives. The lawsuit claimed the ...
Computerworld

MIT: Discarded hard drives yield private info

Planning to auction off that old computer on eBay? You might want to take a closer look at what’s on your disk drive first. According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and ...
The Norman Transcript

BUSINESS COLUMN: Do you know what a computer "drive" is?

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive is. What is a computer ‘drive,’ anyway ...
Reuters

Disk drive consolidation as Western buys Komag

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Western Digital Corp. has agreed to buy component maker Komag Inc., in the latest move to consolidate the disk drive industry, for about $1 billion in cash, the companies ...
Reuters

Disk drive pioneer Al Shugart dies

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76. Sign up here. The founder of Seagate ...