You’ve no doubt seen clocks made from old hard drives that were kept mostly intact. Many makers including [Jeremy] will extract the shiny platters to use as bases for clock faces and engrave the ...

[Jipa] over at MetkuMods put up an original re-use for old hard drives ... but once the drive is spinning fast enough, the inertial force of the platter is enough to make it usable for small ...

Laptop drive almost full? Need to back up your photos? Desktop-size and portable platter storage has never been cheaper. Our deep-dive reviews help you track down the right external hard drive.

A primary computer storage device, which spins, reads and writes one or more fixed disk platters. The terms "hard drive" and "hard disk" are synonymous; however, a "drive" technically refers to ...

Hard drives are cheaper per terabyte compared to SSDs, which makes them great for mass storage. Large platter drives are more reliable for long-term data storage. Desktops often support more ...

You can do this by opening up a hard drive with ceramic platters and exposing its inner components. Then, wire up a speed controller and attach sandpaper to the platter. Once you remove the ...

“As the world’s leading producer of exabytes, and the only manufacturer capable of manufacturing 3.6TB per platter hard drives at scale, Seagate is laser-focused on delivering the storage ...

(See our explainer.) When you're dealing with an external platter-based hard drive, it makes little difference which USB interface you get, as long as it works with your PC; the speed of a hard ...

Unlike a conventional disk-based hard drive, which stores data on a spinning platter or platters accessed by a moving magnetic head, an SSD uses a collection of flash cells—similar to the ones ...