Toshiba Electronic Components Taiwan Corporation (Toshiba) has introduced S300 AI, a new generation of surveillance hard disk ...

SAN DIMAS, CA – June 1, 2009 – Trace amounts of organic and inorganic contaminants of hard disk components are extremely difficult to detect by current methods. Common techniques, such as inspection ...

Miniature disk drives with form factors ranging from 1.8 to 0.85 in. often lack the full suite of functions needed to support the mechanical head-and-disk assembly. The TrueStore chip set hopes to ...

As the amount of data stored on computers increases, many today rely on solid-state drives (SSDs) due to their much higher ...

Mechanical hard drives are sensitive, precise electromechanical devices consisting of a combination of rotating disks and read/write heads floating above them. Despite their complex construction, they ...

At last months Usenix FAST 16 conference, in the Best Paper award winner Environmental Conditions and Disk Reliability in Free-cooled Datacenters, researchers Ioannis Manousakis and Thu D. Nguyen, of ...

The magnetic hard disk's tenure as a critical part of the storage technology mosaic is entering its sixth decade, and it shows no sign of ending any time soon. However, certain limitations imposed by ...

Elinor Ostrom won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics for her work on economic governance of common pool resources. Her work focused on how humans interact with ecosystems in order to maintain a long ...

Shares of the disk-drive components maker rally after the company says its first-quarter sales and earnings will top analysts' estimates. Read-Rite shares rallied Thursday, after the disk-drive ...

June 1, 1978: Apple launches the Disk II floppy drive, one of the company’s most important peripherals ever. The best floppy drive available at the time, Disk II solves the Apple II computer’s most ...