[Jipa] over at MetkuMods put up an original re-use for old hard drives ... but once the drive is spinning fast enough, the inertial force of the platter is enough to make it usable for small ...

You’ve no doubt seen clocks made from old hard drives that were kept mostly intact. Many makers including [Jeremy] will extract the shiny platters to use as bases for clock faces and engrave the ...

Let the drives stick to doing what they do best: Use a NVMe drive for your boot, programs, and games, and stick all of your ...

When disposing of an old computer, there is really only one way to securely erase the information on the hard drive: ...

This eliminated the need to remove the arm/head from one platter and move it to another. The IBM 1301 was also the first hard drive whose heads rode a thin layer of air caused by the spin of the ...

An eleventh platter gives extra capacity, while shingled (overlapped) writes – best suited to sequential recording use cases ...

The primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish ...

HDDs (hard disk drives) have been around for more than 50 years. They are essentially boxes containing spinning platters with read/write arms that skim across them to detect the orientation of ...

Will the hard drive even work if it's found? Whether the hard drive will work depends on a component called the "platter" — a disc made of either glass or metal that holds the data. Howells says ...

Laptop drive almost full? Need to back up your photos? Desktop-size and portable platter storage has never been cheaper. Our deep-dive reviews help you track down the right external hard drive.

Western Digital is announcing several new hard drives today with expanded storage capacities thanks to its new 11-platter design. The company previously offered 10-platter drives and is now ...

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