SAN DIMAS, CA – June 1, 2009 – Trace amounts of organic and inorganic contaminants of hard disk components are extremely difficult to detect by current methods. Common techniques, such as inspection ...

Eric Savitz commented in another Forbes blog today that Thailand floods are causing technology supply chain issues. These issues are particularly severe for several hard disk drive (HDD) companies.

Manufacturers seal hard drives in hermetic rooms to avoid any contamination by particles of dust, a single one of which can completely destroy a hard drive. If you were to open one up, however, you ...

Mechanical hard drives are sensitive, precise electromechanical devices consisting of a combination of rotating disks and read/write heads floating above them. Despite their complex construction, they ...

Here are some results reported in our latest Digital Storage Technology Newsletter. Total HDD shipments in CQ3 2019 were up 5.8% from CQ2 2019 (83.1 M units in CQ3 2019 versus 78.5 M units in CQ2 2019 ...

The global hard disk drive (HDD) industry, already facing challenges from solid state drives (SSDs), cloud computing and limitation of vertical read-write technologies, is expected to face even more ...

Min Aik Technology, a leading maker of hard disk drives (HDDs) components, have had increasing orders for parts for external (portable) HDDs mainly from Western Digital (WD) since 2006, and the ...

Verdict: The Synology HAT3300 12TB Internal Hard Disk Drive stands out with its . Designed for users who demand the best from their devices, Synology HAT3300 12TB Internal Hard Disk Drive delivers top ...

Synology DSM partitions a 2tb drive as 2.38g for the OS 2.00gb for the swap file and an 127mb "unallocated" before user created partitions and 99mb "unallocated" after. I think the space for the OS ...