People have been noticing that their external hard drives continue to spin even when they have stopped using the drive. Some Time Machine users are concerned that the drive was being accessed by ...

I just installed a new motherboard (Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 3), processor and RAM into an existing system and all is well after a reinstall of Windows, except for the one HDD in the system. It's ...

There also was some compatibility issue (ibid) with certain brands of HDD not spinning down when idle. There are several brand/model recommendations in those two threads, but those were back in ...

Western Digital expects new high-capacity drives featuring microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) technology to take spinning hard disk technology into the next decade. With capacities of up ...