The electronic heart of a hard disk drive is the read-channel integrated circuit (IC). Over the years, read-channel designers have delivered dramatic improvements in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), ...

How many of you have come home from an exhausting day of work or class, popped a game into your PlayStation 2, and sat down on the couch only to see "Disk Read Error" on your TV? For many, it's an all ...

LSI recently launched a new era in disk-read-channel technology with the RC9500, a mixed-signal read-channel-IP (intellectual-property)-core cluster. LSI intends the block for integration with a drive ...

Lite-On iHES208 8X Blu-ray Disc Reader with DVD Writer Combo Now Available New Blu-ray reader and DVD writer combo provides all-in-one PC solution for hi-def movie playback and writing DVDs Fremont, ...

Dreaming of a disk-less future. The Xbox Series S is a really solid console that offers an excellent gaming experience for nearly half the price of an Xbox Series X. Even if relegated entirely to a ...

One of the first big challenges neophyte sysadmins and data hoarding enthusiasts face is how to store more than a single disk worth of data. The short—and traditional—answer here is RAID (a Redundant ...