Operationally, solid state drives (SSD) use less power. But research finds the manufacturing process is tilted in favor of hard disk drives (HDD). Here’s a wrinkle in corporate environmental efforts.

Grist is a nonprofit, independent media organization dedicated to telling stories of climate solutions and a just future. At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County,Oklahoma, ...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST) has begun production of 3.5-in. desktop hard-disk drives at a new factory in Shenzhen, China, a company executive said Thursday. “Three years ago, we ...

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies Inc. (HGST), the business created by the merger of the hard-disk drive manufacturing units of Hitachi Ltd. and IBM Corp., is to lay off about 400 workers, it said ...

At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 disassembling old hard disk drives by hand in order to extract a 2-inch-long component known ...