Push two magnets together and you’ll set off an avalanche of activity, forcing atoms on each magnet to align their polarity with the intruding magnetic field. It may sound like a party trick for ...

Hard disk drives have advanced in capacity along a path roughly parallel to the well-known semiconductor premise.

Toshiba's 12-disk drive breakthrough uses glass platters to achieve 40TB capacity by 2027, surpassing competitors' 10-disk ...

GM and Niron have teamed up to pry the EV motor material supply chain away from China. Did you know GM invented the domestic, ...

Today's world, rapidly changing because of "big data," is encapsulated in trillions of tiny magnetic objects -- magnetic bits -- each of which stores one bit of data in magnetic disk drives. A group ...

Toshiba Electronic Devices & Storage Corporation is first in the storage industry to verify 12-disk stacking technology for ...

A hard drive, also known as a hard disk drive, is a storage device used on many computers that's prone to failure but offers ...

Almost all computers today store their digital data as magnetic areas on a device called a hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk. Basically, all hard drives work the same way: Information is encoded and ...

The magnetic hard disk's tenure as a critical part of the storage technology mosaic is entering its sixth decade, and it shows no sign of ending any time soon. However, certain limitations imposed by ...