On April 4, China imposed new restrictions on seven critical rare earth elements and magnets, requiring export ... 50,000 pounds of decommissioned hard drives and server hardware.

Essential to cloud data center infrastructure, hard disk drives (HDDs) are complex devices that blend material science, mechanical engineering and physics. As part of its innovation, HDDs use a range ...

This approach not only recovers rare earths like neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium, which are essential for HDD magnetic systems ... that even external hard drives can have an eco-friendly ...

Western Digital has developed a way to mine old hard drives for rare earth elements ... to extract the rare earth elements ...

Chicago, April 01, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- As per the recent findings by Astute Analytica, the Japan neodymium iron boron magnet market was valued at US$ 992.89 million in 2024 and is expected to ...

If your hard drive is full, and you're not sure what could possibly be taking up all that space, you might think your only option is to tediously go through your file lists, one by one.

Synology is preparing to roll out new restrictions on third-party hard drives in its future network attached storage (NAS) devices later this year, the company confirmed to Ars Technica.

Synology’s 2025 Plus range only works with certain hard drives It says this is for lower failure rates and compatibility issues Older models won’t be affected by this new policy Taiwanese NAS ...

The next high-end NAS line from Synology will require the use of the company's branded hard disk drives ... Toshiba and Seagate. These drives use conventional magnetic recording technology ...