According to Seagate, it is designed for high-capacity use cases including hyperscale data centers, enterprise backup systems ...

If you have some old floppy disks lying around, then you may want to check out this fun DIY USB drive which was made using an old 3.5 inch floppy. This fun USB drive was made by Charles Mangin ...

No, a better bet is simply to spend a few bucks. I did a little shopping on Ebay and found plenty of 3.5-inch external floppy disk drives, most of them selling in the $10-15 range.

Capacity for the high end of 3.5-in. hard-disk drives is about 80 Gbytes per drive. One such available drive is the DiamondMax 80 from Maxtor Corp. It has four platters that spin at 5400 rpm.

This is an exceptionally good deal from Newegg. You won't find anything cheaper anywhere. This 6TB hard disk drive from Seagate will provide plenty of storage space for users that want a HDD that ...

Disk drives win against SSDs on $/bit, but lose on I/Os per second (IOPS). Seagate is now floating the idea of multiple actuators in a single disk drive. Will that save disk drives from oblivion?

Two years later in 1984, Apple released their new Macs with the 3.5-inch disk drives and in 1985 Atari adopted the new size. By the late 1980s, 3.5-inch disks were a hit and 5.25-inch disks were ...

Other less common formats of 3.5-inch floppy drives were the Imation Superdisk (LS-120 and LS-240) which reached capacities of 120 and 240 MB, respectively, as well as the rare Sony HiFD released ...

Could the phrase “burn a disc” soon be interred in the computing graveyard, resting peacefully alongside 8-bit graphics and the chirping, buzzing hum of a dial-up modem?

When DOS Version 2 came out, the first disk drives appeared for PC-class machines, using 5.25-in. platters that could store 5MB or 10MB and eventually more than 40MB of data.