Hard drives can last anywhere from four years to forever. Well, not forever, but for a long enough time, depending on how you use the drive. And when they do fail, they rarely do so without warning, ...

I find hard drives fascinating: the way they store data on a magnetic platter, how the voice coil actuator moves the read/write head across the platter while a spindle motor keeps the platter spinning ...

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager of business development for hard disk drives at Toshiba Electronics Europe, about hard disk drive (HDD) metrics. In particular, he takes apart ...