Now I'm wondering if I should replace the disk anyway (I have a spare one available), but as the disk is still working I would probably not be able to get an exchange under warranty for one bad sector ...

A recent growth spurt in the cyclical disk drive industry has slowed price erosion, tightened supplies of some drives, and is leading industry observers to warn that OEMs could have a difficult time ...

MANHASSET, N.Y. — IDEMA, the International Disk Drive, Equipment, and Materials Association said that a member committee has recommended replacing the 30 year sector length standard of 512 bytes with ...

I often used to help people in forums, where they mentioned that their hard drive had crashed and that they had lost all their data just because they did not check the health of their hard drive – and ...

Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a sector) ...