So I was playing with an old hard drive and stacked two platters together. Now it's completely impossible for me to separate them or slide them against each other by hand (I may be able to separate ...

Toshiba Corp. has boosted the rotational speed of its latest high-capacity hard disk drive to 5,400 rpm, the company announced Wednesday, promising faster access to data for end users. Toshiba ...

eg - the 640Gb WD Scorpio blue (2.5") - does the dual platter improve read/write/access times (a la RAID) or is it purely an exercise in increasing capacity?<BR><BR><BR>I am about to pull the trigger ...

Toshiba Corp. plans to begin sample production next year of a coin-size hard-disk drive that can hold up to 3GB of data, the company said Tuesday. The new drive contains a disk platter that is 0.85 ...

Samsung has taken advantage of rising hard-disk memory storage densities to launch a new line of high-end products with capacities of up to 1TB. The Spinpoint F3 line, announced on Tuesday, uses ...