The read/write head of a magnetic hard drive is a moving part. In the worst case scenario, it can destroy the entire hard drive if it becomes defective or is dropped. Before disconnecting an ...

MR Technologie (MRT) sued Western Digital in August 2022, claiming that it had infringed upon two patents filed by Dieter Seuss, a professor and head ... in a HDD by using anisotropy magnetic ...

To counter it, HDD manufacturers can increase the coercivity (the magnetic field required for the drive head to write the data on the magnetic media) of the disk. However, the amount of coercivity ...

At the recent Computex trade show in Taipei, Western Digital confirmed that its first hard drives based on Heat-Assisted ...

This allows the magnetic head to write ... three companies dropped as a similar rate during the period, based on their trendlines (dotted lines). Table 1 shows QoQ change in HDD data by the ...

As in prior years we will start with a piece on magnetic storage technology ... and 4 actuator HDDs using the same head stack pivot could appear as HDD storage capacity climbs towards 40 TB.

How do you fit 32 terabytes of storage into a hard drive ... than seven years of head life. Western Digital has its own 32TB drive, based on energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording ...

Even if you're a self-proclaimed computer geek who can build a PC from components, do you really know how a hard drive operates ... As the head moves over the magnetic fields on the platter ...

Buffalo Skeleton Hard Disk turns file storage into living ... Through its transparent window, users can watch the magnetic head move as it reads and writes data, enhanced by a companion Windows ...