Hard drives still matter where capacity, cost efficiency and durability outweigh raw speed Most modern hard drives are built for data centers, servers and specialized storage roles Consumer hard ...

ABB has released its ACS880 Virtual DrivePlus. This high-fidelity software-in-the-loop (SIL) system runs low-voltage drive control firmware to ensure accurate simulation of a drive’s behavior, ...

In this increasingly digital era, physical media has become a thing of the past in most circles. There is, however, sustained interest in such supposedly antiquated tech. Some examples of this include ...

If you look for a desktop or laptop PC, you’ll see that with very few exceptions, the hard disk drive (HDD), which has served us for decades, is no longer offered as an internal storage medium.

This year marks the 45 th year of the International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST). It is the oldest continuous IEEE conference on digital storage technology. Topics at ...

Sony is sticking with an optical disc drive for at least one more console generation and it's decision is "firm," according to a new report. Just as Sony did with its PlayStation 5 lineup, the ...

TL;DR: Sony's PlayStation 6 will launch as an all-digital console without a built-in disc drive, requiring consumers to purchase the drive separately. This strategy aims to boost Sony's profit margins ...

The PlayStation 5 turns five years old in November, and talk about the yet-to-be-announced PS6 has begun picking up lately. One idea that the proposed successor console could reportedly adopt from the ...

The PlayStation 6 will reportedly have a model that comes with a detachable disc drive at launch, according to several sources that spoke with Insider Gaming. The PlayStation 5 Slim model introduced a ...

Insider-Gaming, in an article by well-known journalist and insider Tom Henderson, reports with some confidence that the PS6 will feature a removable disc drive in its launch model, similar to what ...

The term hard drive refers to the actual storage medium — either in the classic sense with rotating magnetic discs (HDD) or as a modern SSD with flash memory. The term drive refers to the electronics ...

The capacity for solid state drives (SSDs) keeps going up while the price per terabyte keeps falling, sometimes raising questions about the future for hard disk drives (HDDs). Will the cost of SSDs ...