The hard drive, which typically provides storage for data and applications within a computer, has four key components inside its casing -- the platter (for storing data), the spindle (for spinning ...

Hard drives may have more than one disk, and each disk has two sides. The logic board reads from and writes to the disks using finely tuned arms, reminiscent of the tone arms on vinyl record players.

If the motor fails, nothing will work either. The motor of a hard disk drive (HDD) is responsible for spinning the platters. If it fails, the drive can no longer access the data stored on it.

Eric Savitz commented in another Forbes blog today that Thailand floods are causing technology supply chain issues. These issues are particularly severe for several hard disk drive (HDD) companies.

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 ...

Even when a hard drive is shattered, a piece of it the size of a fingernail holds more than 100Gb of readable information. Anyone who mounts that shard and scans it can access the information.

Hmm, unfortunately this is a discussion that really would have made more sense 6+ years ago. I no longer have nearly as much data in front of me tracking hard disk failures for boot drives/OS ...

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