Storage articles

Researchers want to develop a DNA-based storage system in three years

Forward-looking: Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is the natural polymer making up the genetic traits of all life forms (and many viruses) known to man. Scientists have been trying to exploit DNA's unique capabilities in the digital realm for a very long time, and a new European-funded initiative is now seemingly confident it can achieve this potentially revolutionary result in just three years.

You can move your entire Google Photos library to iCloud with a few clicks using this new tool

Samsung joins the 60 TB SSD club, teases future 122 TB model

End of an era: Japan finally removes floppy disks from all government operations

Massive SSD density boost is on the horizon thanks to Kioxia's 1,000-layer NAND plan

The MediaGone 500 eats SSDs, flash drives, and smartphones for lunch

AMD's neural texture compression could reduce storage and VRAM requirements

More practical PCIe 5.0 SSDs will finally arrive this year based on the SiliconMotion SM2508 controller

In context: Up until now, the only PCIe 5.0 SSDs on the market have been powered by the Phison E26 controller. They're certainly fast, with sequential speeds of over 12GB/s, but they also run incredibly hot and are power-hungry. We're talking active cooling requirements and over 11W of power draw under load, which is not exactly ideal for rigs.

How heavy was the first ever 1 GB hard drive?

Microsoft is pushing OneDrive backups and integration in new Windows 11 setup by default

Classic Microsoft: OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud storage and file-syncing solution that's baked directly into Windows. However, over time the tool has become increasingly annoying and troublesome, and now Redmond seems willing to make it more so by making OneDrive an opt-out feature.

Seagate launches official refurbished hard drive store on eBay

Western Digital's new budget NVMe SSDs arrive at peculiar price points

SSD prices could see a decline as NAND production ramps up

Gigabyte's AI Top SSD claims extreme 219,000 TBW endurance, leaves other drives in the dust

Revolutionary 2Tb 3D QLC NAND flash memory die teased by Western Digital

MSI shows off hot-swappable PCIe Gen 5 SSD expansion card that looks like a video card

Activision addresses Call of Duty: Black Ops 6's listed 309 GB install size

Patriot showcases DDR5 that overclocks to 11,500 MT/s

GOG will soon start deleting your games' cloud saves if they're too large

Portable SSD with AirJet tech runs 20C cooler, achieves 2x sustained performance

Google discloses how they mistakenly erased $135 billion cloud customer account

Facepalm: One of Google Cloud's worst nightmares came true in early May, when an embarrassing snafu completely erased a customer's account and data backups. The unlucky victim was Australian pension fund UniSuper, which manages a staggering $135 billion in assets for over 600,000 members. The pension fund was essentially frozen for two weeks, unable to fully operate while it scrambled to recover from third-party backups.

Magnetic tape shipments reached a record 152.9 exabytes in 2023

This 8KB USB drive will outlive you and your grandkids

WD's large-capacity portable hard drives are back with new 6TB models

From nostalgia to necessity: why floppy disks refuse to fade away

RETRO-TASTIC It's been close to fifteen years since the last new floppy disk was manufactured by Sony. That's a long time by any standard, and it's especially lengthy in the ever-advancing tech world. But despite the finite number of disks decreasing every year, there are those who still hold on to floppies, whether for nostalgia-fuelled pleasure or necessity.