Pure Storage predicted the end of spinning disk by 2028. Will its agreements with flash makers Micron and Kioxia, and an ...

Hard disk drives (HDDs) work by spinning their internal platters. Only while spinning can data be read or written. It’s been decades since they gained the ability to remain online but not ...

Western Digital on Wednesday said it is investing in technology that will take spinning hard disk drives to 40 TBs and beyond in capacity as a way to meet big data and other large-capacity ...

Spinning hard drives survive in this age of superfast portable SSDs due to their low cost per gigabyte, and the 6TB WD My Passport, Works with USB-C lists at a minuscule 3.2 cents per gig while ...

So when will the last spinning hard drive, by far the most common storage media in use, leave the corporate data center? The arguments for its demise are compelling, including eliminating the ...

To understand how and why SSDs are different from spinning discs, we need to discuss hard drives. A hard drive stores data on a series of spinning magnetic disks called platters. This diagram ...

If you find yourself in need of a precision chop saw don’t overlook the value of adding a diamond blade to a spinning HDD platter. [Tony’s] four-part writeup of this build springs out of some ...

The appearance of the solid-state drive on the scene was a big moment for our home PCs. Compared with the spinning hard drives that preceded them, they were smaller, faster, less prone to ...