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), ...

One hard disk recently failed in the EEVBlog laboratory’s NAS. Keeping true to his catch phrase, [Dave “Tear it Apart” Jones] opened it up and gave us an inside tour of a modern hard disk drive. There ...

This Media Tank holds an optical drive and a hard drive and has a built-in card reader for a whole slew of different memory card formats. It seems to be a great home base for people with ...

Debuting as the industry’s first hard-disk drive (HDD) read-channel integrated circuit (IC) implemented in 0.13 µm process technology, the company's latest device delivers data transfer rates of 1.6 ...

Infineon Technologies AG today began sampling what it says is the industry's first hard disk drive read-channel IC implemented in 0.13-micron process technology. Designed to achieve data transfer ...

Forecasting greater capacity, higher yield, and lower power consumption for hard-disk drives (HDDs), the RC5100 breaks out as the industry's first 28-nm read channel. Forecasting greater capacity, ...