Better known as HDDs, this type of storage is arguably the first one many personal computer users are most familiar with.

A storage device is a piece of hardware that keeps your data handy, meaning new files you create and those you use frequently ...

The primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish ...

There have been a lot of different mass storage methods over the relatively short lifespan of the computer. Magnetic tapes, drums, all sorts of disks, and flash memory have each had their time.

Losing all your data because your computer came down with a nasty virus or got fried in an electrical storm can be inconvenient at best, devastating at worse. Portable hard drives and cloud storage ...

A hallmark of computer storage in the 1970s. Here are five interesting facts about 8-inch floppies: The 8-inch floppy disk, originally called a "memory disk", was developed by IBM to serve as a ...