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 ...

Ground-breaking research led by Prof Stefano Sanvito, Director of the CRANN Institute at Trinity College Dublin and Investigator in the Science Foundation Ireland funded centre AMBER, has demonstrated ...

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 ...

You might expect a simple iron magnet to play second fiddle to the fancy rare-earth ones, but Niron Magnetics claims its iron ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Western Digital had a press day to make a major announcement about their HDD technology. They projected that by 2020 70% of all data will be in HDDs and 90% of all data center data will be in hard ...

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 ...