I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive is. What is a computer ‘drive,’ anyway ...

The past 12 months saw flash storage nudge into areas from which it had hitherto been absent. In particular, this was because of the availability of denser – and therefore cheaper per-gigabyte (GB) – ...

Planning to auction off that old computer on eBay? You might want to take a closer look at what’s on your disk drive first. According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and ...

Western Digital has agreed to buy component maker Komag, in the latest move to consolidate the disk drive industry, for about $1 billion in cash, the companies said on Thursday. The proposed merger ...

As technology advanced from hard drives to solid state, and as ransomware and other threats against your data multiply, cloning disks as backups and for transfer has never been more crucial. This ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76. Sign up here. The founder of Seagate ...