One of the first hard drive storage devices was invented by IBM in the 1950s, and you could get one, assuming you were ...

Inside the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, sits an odd-looking, refrigerator-sized contraption that could have been created by an out-of-control set designer for “Lost in Space.” ...

The size of the hard drive installed in a computer is typically measured in gigabytes, with 1GB equalling 1,000 megabytes. Larger drives may be measured in terabytes, the equivalent of 1,000 gigabytes ...

We talk to Rainer Kaese of Toshiba about the right temperature to run your hard disk drives at. Not getting it right risks ...

The IBM RAMAC 305, introduced on this day in 1956, was the world’s first computer to use a magnetic hard disk drive for data ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? While solid-state drives (SSDs) have become increasingly popular (particularly for ...

A particularly malicious virus can at worst disable a hard drive temporarily. A virus alone is not enough to physically break a hard drive or completely disable a hard drive to the point where it ...

As topic: the PC is a PC Chips 810LMR running a Duron 750 with 2x64Mb PC100 SDRAM, Samsung 32x CD-ROM, Western Digital WD205AA 20Gb Hard Disk. Had been running stable in this configuration for over 18 ...