"hard-disk drives" news, interviews, and features

News about hard-disk drives

• SATA 3.0 spec cleared, doubles drive data speed

  New specification does 6Gbit/sec. transfers, backward compatible with earlier SATA

• Seagate announces new green desktop drives

  Lower-power 3.5-in. Barracuda LP family of drives spin at 5900 rpm

Features about hard-disk drives

• Review: Hard disk vs. solid-state drive -- is an SSD worth the money?

  SSDs have the speed, but HDDs have the capacity