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 ...

Its appearance has been likened to a moon, an alien creation, a crop circle and a giant Lazy Susan; regardless, a sprawling disk of ice spinning in the Presumpscot River in Westbrook, Maine, has ...

VESTABURG, Mich. (WOOD) — Viewers may be skeptical of the video clip below showing a perfectly circular ice disc spinning in a river, but the phenomenon is completely natural. Check out the video ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. The football field-sized circle of ice rotating in the Presumpscot River was ...

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 ...