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 ...

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 ...

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 ...