Western Digital has introduced the industry's first hard drive that offers 30GB of capacity on a single platter, which translates into two words that consumers love to hear: bigger and cheaper. A hard ...

Sometimes, when buying a hard drive, you need gobs of gigabytes. But when total storage space is not a prime consideration, opting for the simplest mechanical design, a single platter, makes sense ...

The venerable hard drive is hitting middle age. The amount of data that can be crammed onto a single platter in a computer hard drive has increased at a torrid pace for the past few years, even ...

A friend recently asked my advice on updating the hard drive on their computer. They were out of space on their drive and wanted to upgrade to a larger solid-state drive. Traditional hard drives use ...

Recently, when I needed to upgrade an internal 3.5 inch hard drive on an old computer, I shopped for the drive with Defensive Computing in mind. Like many, I started with what was on sale at my ...