IBM says its award-winning one-gigabyte Microdrive(TM) offers the ruggedness and performance ideal for outer space or earthbound photographic missions. This, after NASA astronauts successfully stored ...

IBM today launched three hard disk drive products — the Deskstar 120GXP, Travelstar 60GH and Travelstar 40GN — that include its magnetic coating technology, nicknamed pixie dust. The new technology, ...

A disgruntled PC owner is taking on Big Blue. Michael Granito Jr. has filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that IBM’s Deskstar 75GXP hard drive contains “a uniform defect in the design” that causes ...

IBM is using an extra dash of pixie dust to add gigabytes of storage to its notebook hard drives. New Travelstar hard drives for notebooks announced Wednesday boost maximum capacity from 60GB to 80GB, ...

IBM is changing the way it bills a new desktop hard-disk drive after buyers feared the company wouldn't stand by the warranties on drives that were overused. The high-speed 120GXP drives, which Big ...

Writing Zeros Thomas Jensen reports that using Apple's Disk Utility to write zeros to a faulty Travelstar or Deskstar hard drive can help reduce frequency of clicking sounds, and other problems: "I ...