The journey to mass production has been extraordinarily difficult – will it be worth it? Feature Seagate says it has a clear way forward to 100 TB disk drives using 10 TB per platter technology, but ...

The computer's storage media prior to solid state drives (SSDs). Magnetic tape and disks were developed in the 1950s and commonly used together in companies for decades.

Unlike solid-state drives (SSDs), hard disk drives use spinning magnetic disks called platters, combined with read/write heads that hover just above the surface to access data.

Hard Disk Drive. getty. In a recent article in Acta Materialia authors from Seagate, NIMS and Tohoku University demonstrated two-layer heat assisted magnetic recording. The research team combined ...

New research brings models of magnetic avalanches much closer to reality, helping physicists understand both why they happen and why they don't run out of control, wiping disk drives clean.

Disk vs. Drive. A disk refers to the physical storage medium itself, such as the magnetic platter in a hard disk drive (HDD) or the flash memory in a solid-state drive (SSD).

Standard hard drives were also not designed for long-term archival use. You can almost never decouple the magnetic disks from the reading hardware inside, so that if either fails, the whole drive ...