A growing number of Iowans are discovering an unexpected relationship between floods in Thailand and the cost of a common computer repair. The price of computer hard drives have skyrocketed because ...

Traditional hard drives typically contain useful components. But dismantling them manually would be too labor-intensive. As things stand, old hard drives tend to go through a shredder and it's often ...

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Hard drives can work for many years under ideal conditions. However, various factors such as manufacturing quality, careful handling, protection from high temperatures, moisture, and power peaks can ...

Microsoft has reportedly deployed robots and artificial intelligence to pull apart defective hard disks to gather the valuable materials within them. Reports from Tom's Hardware and Blocks & Files ...

A hard drive that's making loud clicking and screeching noises is trying to tell you something: The hardware is starting to fail and the component needs to be replaced. Failing hard drives typically ...

Hard drive maker Western Digital said Thursday that it will acquire the assets of Read-Rite, a manufacturer of hard drive components, for $95 million in cash. Read-Rite makes magnetic heads and other ...