Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish in the 1970s alongside tape drives, which were the primary storage medium (see magnetic tape). A hard disk ...

Method 2. Recover external hard drives from a backup After losing data on an external hard drive, you should check all the ...

After exploring various technologies, including wire matrices and rod arrays, IBM invented the hard disk drive in 1953 at its San Jose, California, lab. Initially, the technology was referred to ...

So, if there’s any even of misfortune, you don’t end up losing your data but can restore it fully from Repair Disc or an external hard drive. That said, things do not always work as expected.

New optical storage archiving systems promise 1PB optical cartridges by the 2030’s. Optical storage could be a significant ...

A new material for high density data storage can be erased and recycled in a more efficient and sustainable way, providing a potential alternative to hard disk drives, solid-state drives and flash ...

“We believe strongly that the days of the hard disk in the data center are over. Customers that do not take advantage of Pure’s QLC products to replace disk systems are choosing the more ...

A digital music player with a hard disk. Hard disk players have always stored more songs than flash memory players; however, both storage technologies constantly improve. For example, the first ...

This will be the first of my projection articles for 2025, focusing on magnetic recording technology, particularly hard disk drives (HDDs) and magnetic tape. The general recession in HDD demand ...