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Ravi Pendekanti: How Western Digital’s HDD innovation is lowering total cost of ownership

Ravi Pendekanti: How Western Digital’s HDD innovation is lowering total cost of ownership Your email has been sent Big data keeps getting bigger in enterprise data centers. While data storage ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Blue Sky Science: How does saving a picture or file to a hard drive work?

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Q How does saving a picture or file to a hard drive work? — Ben W., Waunakee, Wis. A Jignesh Patel, professor in computer ...
Bleeping Computer

Researcher Turns HDD Into Rudimentary Microphone

Speaking at the Ekoparty security conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, security researcher Alfredo Ortega has revealed that you can use your hard disk drive (HDD) as a rudimentary microphone to can ...
The Times of Northwest Indiana

Blue Sky Science: How does saving a picture or file to a hard drive work?

A Jignesh Patel, professor in computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison: A hard disk drive contains a circular shiny silver disk, similar to a CD or DVD but much smaller. This disk is ...
Napa Valley Register

Blue Sky Science: How does saving a picture or file to a hard drive work?

This disk is coated with a magnetic material, and information is stored by magnetizing very tiny pieces of this surface. Depending on how each piece is magnetized — either a north-south or south-north ...