A recent growth spurt in the cyclical disk drive industry has slowed price erosion, tightened supplies of some drives, and is leading industry observers to warn that OEMs could have a difficult time ...

WD has started shipping drives that drop the ancient 512 byte disk sector for a 4096 byte - 4k - sector. What's in it for you? And what will it do to you? Disks write your data in fixed chunks. For ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — IDEMA, the International Disk Drive, Equipment, and Materials Association said that a member committee has recommended replacing the 30 year sector length standard of 512 bytes with ...

IDEMA, the International Disk Drive, Equipment, and Materials Association, has announced the results of an industry committee assembled to identify a new and longer sector standard for future magnetic ...

I have a 73GB drive with bad sectors I want to copy to a 150GB drive. If it weren't for the bad sectors, I would do a raw sector copy and extend the last volume. I use something like UNIX dd with the ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. It looks like the recession of the last two years may be ...

In my last tutorial I introduced you to Windows 2000's Disk Probe, a utility that lets you modify almost anything on your system's hard disk on a sector-by-sector basis. Now it's time to start using ...

The next generation of personal computers and portable music players could hold 10 times more information than current models, thanks to a different way of writing magnetic data to a hard disc.