So I was playing with an old hard drive and stacked two platters together. Now it's completely impossible for me to separate them or slide them against each other by hand (I may be able to separate ...

Anyone knows some hard disk models available on sale that have biggest capacity and only one platter? I guess all the 160 GB models available have one platter but I wonder if the 320GB drives also ...

Toshiba Corp. has boosted the rotational speed of its latest high-capacity hard disk drive to 5,400 rpm, the company announced Wednesday, promising faster access to data for end users. Toshiba ...

Western Digital has introduced the industry's first hard drive that offers 30GB of capacity on a single platter, which translates into two words that consumers love to hear: bigger and cheaper. A hard ...

The venerable hard drive is hitting middle age. The amount of data that can be crammed onto a single platter in a computer hard drive has increased at a torrid pace for the past few years, even ...

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, ...

The new 1TB/platter 3.5-inch desktop drives incorporate LSI TrueStore system-on-chip (SoC) solutions, including 40nm read channels featuring second-generation low-density parity check (LDPC) iterative ...

Samsung's 1.8-in. N-series targets mobile applications (see the figure). It features 20-, 30-, 40-, and 60-Gbyte per-disk capacities. Only 5 mm tall, drives are available with PATA and CEATA ...