I wrote about data sanitization using the IEEE P2883 standard back in 2022. This is a standard for sanitization of the data in storage devices using certified methods that work on each storage type.

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 ...

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 ...

Machine-generated data massively increases the amount of data that has to be stored and processed for analysis. While other storage methods are growing in popularity, a recent forecast by research ...

NEW YORK, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A Chinese technology company has expressed interest in buying a U.S. computer disk drives maker, raising concerns among U.S. officials of national security risks from ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? While solid-state drives (SSDs) have become increasingly popular (particularly for ...

A misleading term for "disk storage." Because storage on disk is permanent until intentionally erased, in the past, some vendors referred to disk storage as disk memory. To add to the confusion, the ...

Why Log4j is an issue for embedded developers. Challenges with using open source. How Bill killed 28 TB of storage. Unfortunately, I recently killed a pair of 14-TB hard drives on one of my servers.

Hitachi Ltd. announced four new hard disk drive products today and formally launched Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc., a new company comprising Hitachi’s and IBM’s hard disk drive operations.

Western Digital has pushed the capacity of its spinning disk hard disk drives (HDDs) by 2TB (terabytes) with the addition of an 11th platter. That has manifested in two new drives, the standard ...