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 ...

Now I'm wondering if I should replace the disk anyway (I have a spare one available), but as the disk is still working I would probably not be able to get an exchange under warranty for one bad sector ...

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 ...

Hello,<br><br>I've got a problem. I've got an OS 9 machine with a failing HD. I've booted the machine using another Mac with Tiger installed via Target Disk mode, and I'm trying to make an image of ...

Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a sector) ...

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 ...

Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...

RedShark Replay: Phil Rhodes explains the background and the (then) latest developments in the ever-evolving world of RAID (first published in July 2013). I can't wait until my computer contains no ...

You know you've got a problem when your disk drive goes ka-thunk. A study of 1.53 million disks finds that data errors are much more common than outright failures. You just don't know it. What's worse ...