Two researchers who independently developed the neodymium magnet — used in everything from hard disk drives to automobiles — have been awarded the 44th Honda Prize. In 1982, two researchers ...

Looking like a standard 8K JEDEC-compatible memory device, it actually provided access to a flash disk drive ranging from 16MB to 1GB. [Smbakeryt] bought some of these devices and built an ISA ...

Makers of hard disk drives, under growing pressure from faster rivals, hope a breakthrough will keep it the dominant ...

The study found that dust grains in the disk were consistent with the magnetic field lines, enabling them to pinpoint and study the otherwise invisible magnetic structure. By studying the ...

(1) For AMD's CPU, see Winchester. (2) An early removable disk drive from IBM that placed the read/write heads and platters in a sealed unit. Before the Winchester architecture, the read/write ...