Before flash drives and SSDs, storage came in giant cabinets with swappable packs. Here's what was inside, and why it took up ...

If you bought a computer between 2003 and 2008, you probably have some money coming to you. It's part of a class action settlement against six makers of computer disc drives. The lawsuit claimed the ...

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 ...

At the heart of every PC is a storage drive, which stores the Microsoft Windows operating system and also contains space for your personal data, documents, photos, and applications. Regardless of ...

Here's how to make sure all the personal files and other data on your storage drive are erased and unrecoverable, whether you ...

Microprocessor giant is offering a technology that it hopes will deliver the best of both worlds in desktop computer storage technology. The main new feature that came with the Z270 chipset is support ...

Over the last few years, much of the enterprise storage market has focused on flash technology, but the hard disk drive (HDD) format has plenty of life in it yet. It is true that flash storage offers ...

New physics research out of the University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz) offers new insight into a poorly understood aspect of disc drive failures, according to industry experts, though ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. When I was a kid growing up in rural Yorkshire, one of the regular attractions at local fairs was a huge steam ...