Computerworld

PC disk drive technology heads to data centers

For companies seeking to store mission-critical data, disk arrays configured with SCSI-attached drives have typically been the only game in town. Lower-cost drives based on the Advanced Technology ...

Why Did Optical Disc Drives Lose the Market at the Peak of Their Technology? The Secret Development History and Rise and Fall of ODDs, Where Japanese Manufactur…

FM TOWNS, Taiyo Yuden, Pioneer, Plextor, Sanyo Electric. And MediaTek. Deciphering the rise and fall of the PC industry ...
Hackaday

Commodore Disk Drive Becomes General Purpose Computer

The Commodore 1541 was built to do one job—to save and load data from 5.25″ diskettes. [Commodore History] decided to see whether the drive could be put to other purposes, though. Namely, operating as ...
The Norman Transcript

BUSINESS COLUMN: Do you know what a computer "drive" is?

I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive is. What is a computer ‘drive,’ anyway ...