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Hard disk drives may seem outdated and useless, now that solid state drives keep plummeting in price. But even with how relatively cheap SSDs are currently, buying a hard disk drive instead of an SSD ...

Gear such as MP3 players with tiny drives are all the rage, but drive makers say their platters cannot get much smaller. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, ...

Bye-bye SATA? Seagate’s latest creation melds a hard disk drive with the NVME protocol. The company debuted the concept at a computing summit in San Jose, California, this week, and says it could pave ...

Early home PCs usually had a floppy disk and a simple hard drive controller. Later, IDE hard drives became the defacto standard. Of course, these days, you are more likely to find some version of SATA ...

If the engineers at Agere Systems have their way, small hard drives will play an even bigger role in music players and other handheld devices. The semiconductor company is shopping around the idea ...

An external disc connected to a laptop. - Nor Gal/Shutterstock If you were to buy a new laptop, you'd have a hard time finding one with a built-in disc drive that can read CDs, DVDs, or Blu-ray discs.