Seagate, the data storage company, has announced its intent to acquire Intevac, a hard drive equipment producer, in an all-cash deal worth $119 million. Seagate said on Thursday that it’ll pay $4 per ...

A disk's surface is divided into concentric tracks (circles within circles), and the thinner the tracks, the more storage. The data bits are recorded as magnetic spots on the tracks in one ...

In a webcast for financial investors, Western Digital provided information on the upcoming roadmap. The most important thing: ...

Seagate announced that they are shipping 36TB HAMR evaluation drives to customers. A study shows AI will drive demand for storage solutions, such as these.

Holographic disk drives have long promised ... For the purposes of recording holographic images this isn't a problem, but data storage is less forgiving because each bit has to be reliably ...

(2) A device that spins, reads and writes a removable storage ... disk). The recording medium may be bare or encased in a cartridge, which is inserted into the drive's slot. (3) A magnetic tape ...

Magnetic storage makes use of a magnetisable coating ... Be more robust - a magnetic disk could be ruined by dropping it, because its moving parts may be damaged.

told financial analysts that the cost of NAND storage technology on a per-bit basis continues to approach that of magnetic disks. That, combined with Pure Storage’s own intellectual property for ...

With a capacity of 3.6 TByte per disk, Seagate achieves the highest storage density. For 26 TByte Western Digital relies on Energy-Assisted Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (ePMR). During the ...