Your hard drive is silently monitoring its own health.

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Agere Semiconductor is expected to announce its first motor controllers for hard-disk drives this week. The company holds the lion's share of the market for read-channels and ...

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 ...

The other day my Atom-based PC had a hard freeze (screen frozen, no response). When it rebooted the single hard drive's access speed became limited to around 3 MBps. It worked long enough to let me ...