Push two magnets together and you’ll set off an avalanche of activity, forcing atoms on each magnet to align their polarity with the intruding magnetic field. It may sound like a party trick for ...

Forward-looking: Magnetic storage technology in hard disks has undergone significant evolution in recent years. Following Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR), Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR), and ...

At long last, engineers at Florida International University have found a way of breaking the 2D limitation of magnetic hard drive storage. By moving to three dimensions, the researchers have massively ...

Burning Drives: Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) is the first major hard disk drive technology advancement to arrive in a very long time. Seagate beat everyone by rushing its Mozaic 3+ platform ...

If you look for a desktop or laptop PC, you’ll see that with very few exceptions, the hard disk drive (HDD), which has served us for decades, is no longer offered as an internal storage medium.

Even though we've all moved on to using flash drives on our machines instead of spinning hard disks, the latter is still the dominant technology in today's data centers. For data that just needs to be ...