Robert Smith created an alternate version of the iconic Whac-A-Mole arcade game for the generation that both remembers arcades and knows why the save icon looks the way it does, as spotted by Hackaday ...

Jokes about the antiquated technology that runs Muni's subway have long made the rounds among riders. But the floppy disk software has passed its expiration date.

I deas man David Delahunty is behind a new flash storage device which looks like a classic MacOS folder icon dragged into the ...

Who It's For Old-school hard drives survive in this age of superfast portable SSDs due to their low cost per gigabyte—the 6TB WD My Passport USB-C lists at a minuscule 3.2 cents per gig.

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The WD My Passport, Works with USB-C is now available at the highest capacity (6TB) of any pocketable, spinning hard drive on the market today. Despite its name, it connects via a USB Micro-B port ...

It is reasonably compact (80 x 111 x 13.5mm) and light (149g) but its dimensions are constrained by the fact that it is, at its heart, a 2.5-inch hard disk drive.

The paper presents a novel approach for driving a voice coil motor (VCM) in a hard disk drive (HDD), based on an adaptive voltage driver. The adaptation of the driver compensates for the variations of ...

It is desirable for a dual-stage actuated (DSA) magnetic disk drive servo system to achieve fast and accurate read/write (R/W) head positioning. In the present study, we propose a DSA control scheme ...