Mac OS X has an option to keep hard drives spinning for quick file access, or to save power and reduce noise by spinning them down when they're not in use. This can be convenient, but is rather ...

There’s no doubt about it: Spinning disk is getting squeezed. As fast solid state drives (SSDs) get cheaper and tape drives get bigger, the sweet spot where spinning hard disk drives (HDDs) make sense ...

Before this year even started we guessed Apple might make a play to reduce its use of hard drives and CD/DVD drives…and then in July we added to the story because the kind folks at Cupertino concurred ...

A potentially world-record-breaking spinning disk of floating ice has appeared in a river in Maine, prompting comparisons to a crop circle. The body, which has formed on the Presumpscot River in ...