Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. said today that it’s planning capacity increases for its 2.5-in. hard disk drives over the next 12 months. The company’s 2.5-in. disks, which are typically ...

Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a sector) ...

Almost all computers today store their digital data as magnetic areas on a device called a hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk. Basically, all hard drives work the same way: Information is encoded and ...