People have warned for years that magnets can wipe out hard drives, but the real answer is a lot less dramatic than that old tech myth suggests.

Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that can trigger these events.

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If you have a few hard drives lying around that you haven't used in years, it might be time to bring those back into your workflow because the price of hard drives is increasing. Unsurprisingly, it ...

Secondaries are an elephant-sized black box. The market is mammoth, expanding, and—here’s the kicker—we have no clue how big it really is. The secondaries market has exploded in recent years, driven ...

At its recent Innovation Day 2026 event, Western Digital previewed two technologies in development to increase HDD throughput: high bandwidth drive technology (HBDT) and dual pivot technology (DPT).

PC gaming has been off to a rough start in 2026, with both RAM and graphics cards facing massive stock issues, due to demand from AI datacenters. It looks like hard drives are next. Both Seagate and ...

Over the last couple of months, the AI industry’s obsession with building out costly data centers has sent the price of RAM skyrocketing, turning a simple computer upgrade into a costly investment.

Western Digital is completely sold out of hard drive production capacity through 2026 due to massive demand from AI data centers. PCWorld reports that hard drive prices have surged nearly 50% in just ...

Thanks to data center demands, Western Digital has committed all of its HDDs for at least the rest of the year. Reading time 2 minutes We’ve been taking the humble external hard disk drive for granted ...

1.36% overall HDD failure rate reported as one drive maker says it's sold out for 2026. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.