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• Next-Gen 7,200 RPM Notebook Hard Drives*
  Thursday 28 August 2008 – 05:20
  Hitachi, Samsung, Seagate and Western Digital send their latest high-performance notebook drives into battle, fighting for the ultimate balance between performance and efficiency.
• Flash-Based Hard Drives Are Here*
  Monday 13 August 2007 – 01:56 in Consumer Electronics
  The first fully-featured, commercially-available solid-state drive (SSD) has reached our storage test lab. While we already reviewed an uber-expensive prototype from Samsung a year ago, and most memory vendors have only been announcing flash-based drive
• Two Hard Drive Coolers Compared*
  Tuesday 9 September 2008 – 07:40
  The Vigor iSurf II Hard Drive Cooler battles Sytrin's HD Cooler to see which works better. Both take similar approaches to cooling your HDD. They both work, but which is worth the price?
• Smart Hard Drives: Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 and Western Digital WD740 Raptor*
  Friday 23 January 2004 – 06:00
  The serial ATA interface is enhanced with a feature from SCSI: Native Command Queuing. Seagate's 7200.7 is the only native SATA interface commercially available, while Western Digital intends to accommodate the low-end server market with its new 74 GB Raptor.
• Transportation Security Administration loses hard drive*
  Monday 7 May 2007 – 10:56
  The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), often regarded as the cornerstone of the United States' homeland security, has lost a hard drive containing information of over 100,000 people. ...
• The Future of the Hard Drive, 50 Years On*
  Thursday 14 September 2006 – 04:32
  Let's look 50 years ahead in time! Tom's Hardware Guide asked Seagate's Senior Field Applications Engineer Henrique Atzkern what he thinks the future holds for the hard disk drive.
• A Look Into The Hard Drive's Future*
  Wednesday 3 September 2008 – 07:30
  What will the hard drive be like in the coming years? We looked at all the manufacturers, products and market segments, and visited a Hitachi technology seminar to look at how the firm intends to reach an amazing 50 TB capacity by the next decade.
• 14-Way SSD Hard Drive Roundup*
  Monday 18 August 2008 – 05:30
  Having found a number of SSDs that don’t deliver on their efficiency promises, we decided to put 14 different drives to the test. Here is the latest roundup--dominated by a single product.
• Hard Drives Instead of Tapes? 70 TB Backup RAID at the University of Tübingen*
  Friday 25 April 2003 – 07:00
  While backing up data may be a minor chore for many, backing up vast quantities of data is a major operation. At the very top of the food chain, you generally have complex tape systems operated with automated robots. However, Dr. Koch Computertechnik AG has developed a cheaper, yet very flexible solution for the University of Tübingen: 70 TB backup capacity on standard IDE hard drives.
• Hybrid hard drives: Can Samsung and Microsoft invent a new market for 2007?*
  Friday 17 March 2006 – 11:42
  For about a year, Samsung Semiconductor and Microsoft have been leading the development of hybrid hard drives, with the potential of improving system performance by orders of magnitude. Samsung, the Flash memory market leader, could have a new industry all to itself. But would a mandate from Microsoft for hybrid HDD inclusion in Premium Vista computers help or hurt the company?
• Trusted Computing platform, DRM coming to hard drives*
  Thursday 16 February 2006 – 12:51
  This week's announcement of the publication of a Trusted Platform Module implementation that enables TPM functionality to be shifted to hard disk drives, creates an intriguing scenario. Hard drive manufacturers may get involved in driving a single standard for DRM functionality, to which Microsoft and others may actually find themselves succumbing.
• SATA Hard Drives Run Riot: Maxtor, Hitachi, Western Digital 250 GB*
  Friday 14 November 2003 – 06:00
  They hold 250 GB, spin at 7,200 rpm, work on 8 MB of cache and are bared on Serial ATA (SATA) technology. Despite the eyebrow raising features they all share, the emerging breed of SATA storage devices offer individual surprises.
• SATA Hard Drive with a Kick: Western Digital's Raptor Put to the Test*
  Thursday 1 May 2003 – 07:00
  Although it only serves up a meager 36 GB, it offers a lot more than you'd normally expect from an IDE hard disk drive. The Raptor, alias WD360 is a new hard disk drive that is attracting considerable attention to itself due to two major new features: it spins at 10,000 rpm and comes complete with Serial ATA. The highlight: it's supposed to be good enough to stand up against SCSI in the lower and middle server segment. Our test demonstrates whether this really stacks up.
• Record-Making Hard Disk: 750 GB Caviar Posts 95 MB/s*
  Friday 6 July 2007 – 02:49 in Hardware
  The new Western Digital Caviar WD7500 hangs in there with the WD Raptor, which despite having a 10,000 RPM spindle is no longer faster than the WD7500's 7,200 RPM in transfer rates. The WD7500 makes great strides forward in other technical areas, too.
• 15 Years Of Hard Drive History: Capacities Outran Performance*
  Monday 27 November 2006 – 01:34
  We've got quad-core processors, gigabytes of RAM and awesome graphics. But what has been going on with hard drives during all the time that these goodies have been developed? Capacities have multiplied and will hit one terabyte per drive soon, but as we'll see, performance hasn't been able to keep up the pace.