Western Digital says it's created an initiative to retrieve rare earth metals from hard drives that are being cycled out of ...

Mining old hard drives for rare earth elements could facilitate 'large-scale, domestic recycling,' and ease US reliance on ...

Although solid-state drives have become the standard for personal computers, mechanical hard drives remain the backbone of ...

Western Digital has announced that it plans to launch a 40TB mechanical hard drive featuring HAMR (Thermal-Assisted Magnetic Recording) technology in the second half of 2026.

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