Toshiba controls 98 percent of the market for the 1.8 inch-diameter drives used in the iPod, which can pack up to 10,000 songs in a device the size of a deck of cards, and its small drives are ...

Seagate's Barracuda hard-disk drives are universally lauded by critics and have been a best seller for the company for many years. Available in sizes ranging from 1 to 8 TB, these drives hit the ...

SINGAPORE -- Throughout the 1990s, new technology and falling prices crushed many of the world's makers of hard-disk drives and components. But that brutal shakeout now could bolster those still ...

The Komag deal comes four years after Western Digital acquired part of bankrupt disk-drive parts maker Read-Rite, which supplied the mechanical heads used to read data on drives.

By the numbers, SSDs are pretty objectively superior to their older disk-based breatheren. They are smaller, lighter, they can access and transfer your data faster, and they’re less prone to failure ...

The traditional hard disk drives, with their moving parts and fragile glass platters, had a failure rate of 10.56% - or just over 1 in 10 - which is an order of magnitude worse.

The Crucial drive did the worst here, taking 78.4 seconds to complete. Ridata posted the best time at 54.8 seconds, but the Momentus laptop drive needed only 55.6 seconds.

Solid State Drive vs. Hard Disk Drive The main benefit of SSDs is that they do not contain any moving parts, which makes them sturdy enough to absorb knocks, falls, or bumps without affecting your ...

A drive, on the other hand, is the mechanism that reads and writes data to the disk. Historically, disks were separate from drives, but modern technology has integrated them into single units like ...