SAN DIMAS, CA – June 1, 2009 – Trace amounts of organic and inorganic contaminants of hard disk components are extremely difficult to detect by current methods. Common techniques, such as inspection ...

Manufacturers seal hard drives in hermetic rooms to avoid any contamination by particles of dust, a single one of which can completely destroy a hard drive. If you were to open one up, however, you ...

Almost every computer user comes across a horrifying situation and troubles due to hard drive failure. Nonetheless, users are not aware of the major causes contributing to the failure of a hard disk.

The primary computer storage medium until the turn of the century when solid state drives began replacing them. Hard disks emerged in corporate datacenters in the late 1960s and began to flourish in ...

Almost all computers today store their digital data as magnetic areas on a device called a hard disk, hard drive or fixed disk. Basically, all hard drives work the same way: Information is encoded and ...