One hard disk recently failed in the EEVBlog laboratory’s NAS. Keeping true to his catch phrase, [Dave “Tear it Apart” Jones] opened it up and gave us an inside tour of a modern hard disk drive. There ...

This Media Tank holds an optical drive and a hard drive and has a built-in card reader for a whole slew of different memory card formats. It seems to be a great home base for people with ...

Hi guys, recently, my 750gb WD elements suffered a head crash. I tried fixing by opening the drive and pushing the head from the platter. Now the platters can spin freely but the head makes a loud ...

Addonics Technologies (www.addonics.com) has announced the Sapphire family of Write-Protect readers that treat hard drive, SSD or flash media as READ only storage to protect against virus ...

DALLAS — Several years after Texas Instruments Inc. exited the market for read-channel chips used in hard-disk drives, the company remains neutral — not adamantly negative — about the possibility of a ...

Debuting as the industry’s first hard-disk drive (HDD) read-channel integrated circuit (IC) implemented in 0.13 µm process technology, the company's latest device delivers data transfer rates of 1.6 ...

MUNICH, Germany — Infineon claims it has demonstrated functionality and data rates in a read hard disk drive read channel exceeding 3 Gbit/s. The read/write channel IC is a result of a cooperation ...

Forecasting greater capacity, higher yield, and lower power consumption for hard-disk drives (HDDs), the RC5100 breaks out as the industry's first 28-nm read channel. The device features a unique ...

On a WD 320GB SATA HDD, using the manufactures utility I received a "Read Element Failure" code 0007. I did a 'Full Media Scan' and it supposely fixed the problem.<BR>I contacted WD and set up a RMA, ...

In what seemed a matter of time, we had an idea WD was right around the corner from releasing their very own 6TB storage solution. While we did not think it would be from the WD Red lineup, it is here ...