Push two magnets together and you’ll set off an avalanche of activity, forcing atoms on each magnet to align their polarity with the intruding magnetic field. It may sound like a party trick for ...

If you've ever snapped your phone into a magnetic holder, you might have felt a sudden twinge of fear that it could cause ...

Warnings about magnets ruining electronics are mostly outdated. Learn why modern devices are largely safe, what rare ...

At a laboratory inside a Google data center in Mayes County, Oklahoma, researchers spent the fall of 2019 disassembling old hard disk drives by hand in order to extract a 2-inch-long component known ...

Heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) and hard disk drive (HDD) technologies represent a significant leap forward in data storage, promising substantially higher areal densities through the precise ...

If you've ever tried to "zero all data" on your computer's magnetic hard disk, you know it can take hours. A Japanese company has created a device that will instantly erase all the data on a drive, a ...

SINGAPORE — Conventional magnetic disk drives can overcome previously forecasted limits and ultimately achieve storage densities of one terabyte (1,000G bytes) per square inch, according to Ed ...

Showa Denko corporation Denko (SDK, Japanese HDD media manufacturer) is the largest independent manufacturer of hard disk drive (HDD) magnetic media. It sells this media to all the HDD manufacturers.