Microsoft is using automation to reduce electronic waste (e-waste) — by disassembling hard drives onsite at data centers.  “We believe that we can improve our current waste reduction efforts and take an innovative approach inspired by the concept of circularity,”...

From a consumer storage standpoint, hard disk drives (HDDs) aren’t as popular as they used to be. Solid-state drives (SSD) are significantly faster and more capable of performing in a variety of conditions — which is why Microsoft is pushing ...

Patelco Credit Union, a Sacramento-based credit union with 37 local branches, has confirmed that its recent security breach occurred due to a ransomware attack.  In an email sent to the members of the credit union, Patelco CEO Erin Mendez said...

An analysis from Trendforce predicts that global prices for hard disk drives (HDD) will rise significantly in the near future, spurred in part by rising demand created by artificial intelligence (AI).  The analysis is fairly barebones; Trendforce quotes reports from...

The Master Boot Record (MBR) is a boot sector on hard drives or other storage media on PC systems. It includes information about a disc’s partitions, along with an executable code that allows the computer to load the installed operating...

If your internal hard disk drive (HDD) keeps disconnecting, you’ve got a potentially serious problem — and if the drive holds critically important data, we strongly recommend shutting down the affected system before taking any additional steps. In the vast...

Occasionally, we like to address unusual questions on this blog. In other articles, we explained how high altitudes could cause hard drive failures and the chances of recovering data from a 10-year-old hard drive recovered from a landfill. Today,...

Hard drive shipments have fallen in recent years, and somewhat dramatically: By one estimate, the total number of shipped hard drives dropped by 33.5% from the first quarter of 2022 to the first quarter of 2023.  For modern consumers, solid-state...

Hard drive capacities continue to improve thanks to new technologies like heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and shingled magnetic recording (SMR). But areal densities remain limited by the physics of magnetic storage — and while 120-terabyte hard drives may exist...

Wildfires have ravaged three of Hawaii’s islands, exacerbated by drought and high winds from Hurricane Dora.  Maui, in particular, has suffered fallout. Communities in North Kohala, South Kohala and Kual have seen widespread damage, and at least 36 people have...