The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see ...

Planning to auction off that old computer on eBay? You might want to take a closer look at what’s on your disk drive first. According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and ...

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers. A hard drive consists of spinning platters that store digital information read by fast-moving read/write ...

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive is. What is a computer ‘drive,’ anyway ...

Researchers from UC Berkeley, among other institutions, have found that magnetic data stored on computer chips could be switched quickly, opening up opportunities for future computer chip memory.

Western Digital has agreed to buy component maker Komag, in the latest move to consolidate the disk drive industry, for about $1 billion in cash, the companies said on Thursday. The proposed merger ...

While every component in a PC has a role to play, today, we are talking about RAM and Hard Drive. While RAM is often termed as Memory, Hard Drive is termed as Storage – and even with words apart, it ...

Following up on yesterday's report: Disc Burner (but not iTunes) problems with SCSI drives Dave Kupiec confirms other reports that Disc Burner 1.0.1 does not work with SCSI versions of the "officially ...

Optical drives let your computer read and interact with discs like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays. While nearly every computer had them a few years ago, they're rare to see on new computers now. If you need ...