A Jignesh Patel, professor in computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: A hard disk drive contains a circular shiny silver disk, similar to a CD or DVD but much smaller. This disk is ...

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Unless your computer is fancy and sports a Solid State Drive (SSD), it likely contains a hard drive of the spinning disk variety. That’s alright; those quickly moving metal circles have been the norm ...

SEATTLE--Microsoft and Samsung showed off a prototype hard drive Monday that can record data while idling, a twist that has the potential to significantly cut power consumption in notebooks. The trick ...

This disk is coated with a magnetic material, and information is stored by magnetizing very tiny pieces of this surface. Depending on how each piece is magnetized — either a north-south or south-north ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Q How does saving a picture or file to a hard drive work? — Ben W., Waunakee, Wis. A Jignesh Patel, professor in computer ...