What Are Disk Speed Test Apps? Disk speed test apps help measure the overall speed and performance of a hard drive or solid-state drive (SSD) (internal or external) connected to a computer system.

Anandtech is carrying the news (sourced from X-Bit Labs) that Seagate will be ceasing production of three of its four Momentus 7200RPM disks: the Momentus 7200.4, Momentus 7200.2, and the Momentus ...

Company is going hybrid for laptop hard drives. Gone are the days of the pure magnetic hard disk drive with high rpm. Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, ...

Earlier this year, Western Digital got caught lying by omission when it came to disclosing that certain drives used shingled magnetic recording (SMR) instead of conventional magnetic recording (CMR).

What Hard Disk do I have? Do I have an SSD, HDD, or Hybrid Drive? How can I check the Specifications and RPM of the Hard Drive of my Windows computer? These are some of the questions we will try to ...

It's no secret that Western Digital's enterprise flagship enthusiast drive has lost a lot of market share to solid state drives. Before consumer SSDs became popular, every enthusiast on the planet was ...

If you picked up Samsung's 640GB S2 portable USB hard drive earlier this year then you might want to look away. Sammy just update the drive with a USB 3.0 interface and 7,200RPM spindle speed that ...

Editor’s note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. Three years ago, I wrote a story comparing hard disk drives to solid ...