Although Western Digital is continuing its research into MAMR technology, the tech used in this month's new drives—EAMR, or Energy Assisted Magnetic Recording—is considerably less exotic.

After decades of overly rosy availability predictions, Seagate announced in late 2024 that it was finally delivering ...

Magnetic tape, 3M, 6250 CPI for computer tape drives, used as storage media between 1970 and 1990 (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This year, 2012, digital plastic substrate magnetic tape turns 60 years ...

Data storage is measured in multiples of “bytes,” with one byte representing roughly one character of text. One kilobyte (KB) ...

The digital storage technology developed for this magnetic tape system (as well as digital magnetic drum recording) was part of the inspiration that led to the first digital hard disk drive (HDD ...

Hard drives have gone through phases of density growth over the years, with Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) being the long-standing standard for the last couple of decades. Enterprise storage ...

Last year, Dropbox talked about making a shift to Shingled Magnetic Recording, or SMR disks for short, because of the efficiency they can give a high-volume storage platform like theirs.

12:26 pm August 31, 2022 By Julian Horsey If you are searching for a quick way to take audio notes you may be interested in a new digital voice recorder called the iZYREC.

An international team of scientists has made a breakthrough in the magnetic manipulation of nanoparticles that could lead to a big boost for small scale digital storage in portable devices.

The first magnetic wire recorder was created in 1899 by a Danish Engineer called Valdemar Poulsen (1869 – 1942). Commercial magnetic wire recorders for dictation and telephone recording were made ...