Data-storage company Seagate developed this diminutive heat source to help it encode information in ever-greater quantities on the spinning magnetic platters of hard disk drives. Stacked by the ...

What seems at first like a logical move to modernize the government's archives may in fact be an ill-advised decision.

Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish in the 1970s alongside tape drives, which were the primary storage medium at that time (see magnetic tape).

These days, there are various storage devices such as hard disk drives, optical disk drives, video magnetic tapes, and semiconductor memories. Hard disk drives are commonly used for video storage ...

[smbaker] is placing his magnetic bubble memory module to work ... Eventually other technologies such as solid-state RAM and various hard disk drives caused the obsolescence of this technology ...

Shipped in September 1956, the first 5MB hard disk unit weighed over a ton ... ensuring the integrity of the delicate magnetic disks. Due to its enormous size and weight, it was primarily used ...

IBM's invention of the hard disk drive revolutionized data storage by allowing random access to data, as opposed to the sequential access used by earlier storage methods like magnetic tape.

OVER FIFTY years ago, the existence of government records on magnetic tape brought down a ... And tape is certainly old-fashioned. Unlike a hard disk, data on tape have to be read sequentially ...

The siting decision comes as global trade tensions ratchet up and leading rare-earth producer China places export ...

Beyond current technologies such as hard disk drive read heads and magnetic random-access memory (MRAM), researchers are now investigating flexible spintronics for use in wearable devices and ...