Fifty years ago this month, a team of sweaty, grunting technicians lugged a 2,000-pound crate the size of a refrigerator out of the bowels of IBM and into a waiting truck. Thus, the world's first hard ...

Hard disk drives (HDDs) have played a crucial role in shaping the landscape of data storage within the computing industry. From their humble beginnings in the mid-20th century to their peak and ...