The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive could be put to other purposes, though. Namely, operating as ...

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 ...

The proposed merger comes amid a sharp fall in prices in the highly commoditized computer disk-drive industry, once one of the bedrock manufacturing sectors in Silicon Valley. Western Digital would ...

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 ...

Defragging your drive was once a ritual. It largely got left in the past, but there are exceptions worth knowing.

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Western Digital Corp. has agreed to buy component maker Komag Inc., in the latest move to consolidate the disk drive industry, for about $1 billion in cash, the companies ...