Hard drives serve as the beating heart of electronic devices, faithfully storing and retrieving your precious information. As the primary storage unit within your computer, a hard drive harbors your ...

This disk is coated with a magnetic material, and information is stored by magnetizing very tiny pieces of this surface. Depending on how each piece is magnetized — either a north-south or south-north ...

If the engineers at Agere Systems have their way, small hard drives will play an even bigger role in music players and other handheld devices. The semiconductor company is shopping around the idea ...

Buffalo is reviving a hard drive design from 1998 that reveals its inner workings. Buffalo is reviving a hard drive design from 1998 that reveals its inner workings. is a senior reporter who’s been ...