Seagate has successfully built its first 6.9TB prototype platter in its laboratory, featuring more than double the capacity of its existing hard drives. However, these ultra-dense platters aren't ...

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 ...

Seagate has revealed a lab prototype of a HAMR (Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording) hard disk that reaches an impressive 6.9 terabytes per platter, roughly doubling the areal density compared to ...

A hard disk platter is a part of a hard disk drive, used to store the data. Hard drives can have one or more hard disk platters. The platters possess complex layer structures, which can be split into ...

The question is based on this Newegg comment I came upon while looking for a MacBook HD upgrade. I was deciding on whether to go for the 7200RPM 200 GB drive or the ...

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 ...

According to new research presented at Japan's Research Center for Magnetic and Spintronic Materials (CMSM), Seagate is ...

Western Digital has introduced the industry's first hard drive that offers 30GB of capacity on a single platter, which translates into two words that consumers love to hear: bigger and cheaper. A hard ...

As technology grows older its use cases shrink, leaving us with e-waste piling up and causing all sorts of environmental problems. Fortunately, there are ways of recycling tech effectively including ...

So I was playing with an old hard drive and stacked two platters together. Now it's completely impossible for me to separate them or slide them against each other by hand (I may be able to separate ...

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 ...