The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive could be put to other purposes, though. Namely, operating as ...

Computers were once the size of an entire room. That's right. A single, low-power computer that was significantly weaker than the phone you carry in your pocket today was also ridiculously larger. But ...

Planning to auction off that old computer on eBay? You might want to take a closer look at what’s on your disk drive first. According to a new study by two MIT graduate students, companies and ...

The proposed merger comes amid a sharp fall in prices in the highly commoditized computer disk-drive industry, once one of the bedrock manufacturing sectors in Silicon Valley. Western Digital would ...

Upgrading a drive on your PC is generally not that difficult, but it can be tricky to move over the data, and more importantly, the operating system, to the new drive. It’s recommended that you ...

What is a ghost image? In computing, ghost imaging, also called disk imaging, is a data backup process that creates an image of a computer's hard disk drive (HDD), solid-state drive (SSD) or one of ...

Defragging your drive was once a ritual. It largely got left in the past, but there are exceptions worth knowing.

What is MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System)? MS-DOS stands for Microsoft Disk Operating System and is also known as Microsoft DOS. MS-DOS was the Microsoft-marketed version of the first operating ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Al Shugart, a pioneer in the computer disk drive industry and one of Silicon Valley's most colorful entrepreneurs, has died. He was 76. Sign up here. The founder of Seagate ...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Western Digital Corp. has agreed to buy component maker Komag Inc., in the latest move to consolidate the disk drive industry, for about $1 billion in cash, the companies ...