Have any dead hard drives kicking around? Hackaday alum [Jeremy Cook] shows how easy it is to disassemble a hard drive to scavenge ... Even if you just hang one platter off of a finger and tap ...

One fun aspect of 1970s-era hard disk drives is that they are big ... even after a replacement 14″ platter was found to replace the crashed platter with. These CDC HDDs are referred to as ...

Although the terms "hard disk" and "hard drive" are used synonymously ... head must move to the required track and wait until the platter rotates to the start of the sector.

When disposing of an old computer, there is really only one way to securely erase the information on the hard drive: destroying the magnetic disk (also called a platter) inside. To begin ...

10TB-per-platter technology has also been mentioned Seagate added a 36TB Exos M model to its growing family of datacenter hard disk drives, making it the largest hard disk drive currently available.

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 ...

IBM built a total of six models with different capacities, on the one hand the multiple of the platter capacity with ... a drop in sales in the hard disk drive business. IBM did not state the ...