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 ...

Seagate announced that they are shipping 36TB HAMR evaluation drives to customers. A study shows AI will drive demand for ...

The computer's storage media prior to solid state drives (SSDs). Magnetic tape and disks were developed in the 1950s and commonly used together in companies for decades. Tape was the primary ...

However, Seagate is not yet releasing the Exos M 36 TByte to the retail market. Samples will first be sent to data center ...

One of new bot’s features will be magnetic position encoders for the wheels. In the past, [Erich] has used the encoder disks that Pololu sells without issue. At 69¢ each, they don’t exactly ...

Physicists at RIKEN have demonstrated how ultrafast, low-power-consumption memory devices could be realized by replacing ...

Heat-Assisted Magnetic Recording (HAMR) is an advanced technology designed to enhance the data storage capacity of hard disk drives (HDDs). By using a laser to heat a small area of the disk to a ...

Use less battery power - devices they are in stay charged for longer. Be more robust - a magnetic disk could be ruined by dropping it, because its moving parts may be damaged.