It's magnetic. It's electric. It's photonic. No,关键字2 this isn't going to be about a new superhero trio in the Marvel universe. This is all about our precious digital data. We need to store it somewhere secure and stable, in a way that lets us get hold of it and change it faster than you can blink. Forget Iron Man and Thor – we're talking about storage drives!

We've split the anatomy of storage in three parts, all published simultaneously to dissect hard disk drives, solid state storage, and optical drives.