A hardware feature that used to be standard on computers and consoles has quietly disappeared. Several practical shifts explain why it stopped mattering.

Seagate’s now shipping 40+TB HDDs to support growing AI data center workloads and are qualified at two hyperscale data center ...

The good old mechanical portable hard drive lives on, but for how long?

Bye-bye SATA? Seagate’s latest creation melds a hard disk drive with the NVME protocol. The company debuted the concept at a computing summit in San Jose, California, this week, and says it could pave ...

Seagate introduced the Mozaic 3+ platform in 2024, turning the heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) dream into a real product for customers in need of massive storage ...

If the engineers at Agere Systems have their way, small hard drives will play an even bigger role in music players and other handheld devices. The semiconductor company is shopping around the idea ...

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, ...

Hard disk drives may seem outdated and useless, now that solid state drives keep plummeting in price. But even with how relatively cheap SSDs are currently, buying a hard disk drive instead of an SSD ...

J. Brodie Shirey is a Contributor from the United States who currently lives in York, Pennsylvania. He's just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe, but aren’t we all? Brodie is a big ...

Before flash drives and SSDs, storage came in giant cabinets with swappable packs. Here's what was inside, and why it took up so much space.