As of December 2025, the largest hard disk drive released has a capacity of 36TB. Seagate added the Exos M (ST36000NM003K) 36TB hard disk drive to its Exos Mozaic 3+ range and has talked about future ...

If you need to expand your Mac storage in a big way without breaking the bank, your best bet is with external hard drives.

The first thing which stands out relates to brand. Western Digital has more drives on the list than anyone else, with 66 ...

From enterprise flash to experimental archival media, these are ten technologies looking to replace traditional hard drives..

The primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish in ...

For hard-drive makers, getting small is becoming a passing fad. While consumers have gone bonkers for music players and other sleek devices sporting tiny hard drives, disk drive companies say there's ...

Editor’s note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Three years ago, I wrote a story comparing hard disk drives to solid ...

Windows has an inbuilt mechanism that checks the hard drive and reports errors if anything isn’t working as expected. In case a problem is detected, the user gets ...

Gear such as MP3 players with tiny drives are all the rage, but drive makers say their platters cannot get much smaller. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, ...

Today's hard drives use SATA or SAS interfaces, which are the serial versions of their PATA and SCSI predecessors. SATA drives are found in most personal computers unless they use solid state drives ...

Almost all computers today store their digital data as magnetic areas on a device called a hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk. Basically, all hard drives work the same way: Information is encoded and ...