If the motor fails, nothing will work either. The motor of a hard disk drive (HDD) is responsible for spinning the platters. If it fails, the drive can no longer access the data stored on it.

The hard drive installed in your Windows or macOS system is where all of your apps and files live—so as computer components go, they don’t get much more important. You might even have more ...

By combining both techniques in the QDI 2010™ microspectrophotometer, the user is easily able to locate and identify contaminant materials in hard disk drive components such as read-write heads. The ...

Choose a trustworthy hard disk: Hard drives vary in quality, so choosing a well-known and trustworthy brand may reduce the risk of firmware issues. Seagate, WD, and Toshiba may be trusted companies.

Modern-day hard disk drives (HDDs) hold the interesting juxtaposition of being simultaneously the pinnacle of mass-produced, high-precision mechanical engineering, as well as the most scorned ...

We note that there was a spurt of growth in HDD areal density in 2015 and 2016, but, except for small bump in AD in 2021, there has been little growth in HDD announced shipping products since 2016 ...

Sonnet Technologies has introduced the DX800RAID, a new eight-drive external RAID system for Macs and PCs. It’s priced starting at $3,995. The DX800RAID supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disk ...

One fun aspect of 1970s-era hard disk drives is that they are big, clunky and are fairly easy to repair without the need for a clean room. A less fun aspect is that they are 1970s-era HDDs and thus… ...