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On September 11th, 2020 with 13 comments
schwit1 shares a report from TechRadar: Huawei has announced a series of layoffs in the UK as the company is forced to alter its corporate strategy in the...
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On August 21st, 2020 with 55 comments
Synology today added a new NAS to its lineup: "DiskStation DS1520+," with five bays. It also has two NVMe PCIe SSD slots for cache. From a report: "Featuring...
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On August 12th, 2020 with 19 comments
Dropbox is officially launching a handful of new consumer features out of beta today, along with some new tools for businesses. From a report: The cloud...
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On August 6th, 2020 with 8 comments
FallOutBoyTonto writes: In June we saw an update to the NVMe standard. The update defines a software interface to assist in actually reading and writing to the...
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On July 26th, 2020 with 74 comments
"DNA is millions of times more efficient at storing data than your laptop's magnetic hard drive," reports Popular Mechanics.
"Since DNA can store data far...
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On July 17th, 2020 with 44 comments
Microsoft-owned GitHub has finally moved its snapshot of all active public repositories on the site to a vault in Norway. ZDNet reports: GiHub announced the...
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On July 11th, 2020 with 5 comments
Research continues in a field which involves using the spin and magnetism of electrons in solid-state devices — spintronics.
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On June 30th, 2020 with 51 comments
One of the two leading manufacturers of tape cartridge storage, FujiFilm, claims that they have a technology roadmap through to 2030 which builds on the...
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On June 8th, 2020 with 74 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: Western Digital has been receiving a storm of bad press -- and even lawsuits -- concerning their attempt to sneak SMR disk...
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On May 30th, 2020 with 79 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: All three of the surviving conventional hard drive vendors -- Toshiba, Western Digital, and Seagate --...
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On May 21st, 2020 with 74 comments
Sabrent, an LA-headquartered computer vendor, has expanded its Rocket Q family of 500GB, 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB drives with a new model that offers 8 terabytes of...
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On May 19th, 2020 with 81 comments
The SD Association announced today that SD cards are about to get faster than ever, thanks to the SD 8.0 Specification. From a report: With SD Express...
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On April 29th, 2020 with 90 comments
"Toshiba has just published a full list of all the consumer HDDs in their lineup that use SMR (shingled magnetic recording) technology," writes Slashdot reader...
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On April 24th, 2020 with 138 comments
News emerged last week that WD, Seagate and Toshiba are all shipping hard drives using Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR), a slower form of HDD technology that...
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On April 19th, 2020 with 221 comments
"Storage vendors, including but reportedly not limited to Western Digital, have quietly begun shipping SMR (Shingled Magnetic Recording) disks in place of...
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On March 30th, 2020 with 29 comments
Mark Wilson shares a report from BetaNews: This weekend, Microsoft has given an insight into the impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on its services. The...
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On March 25th, 2020 with 97 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) issued a security advisory last week warning customers about a bug in the firmware of some SAS...
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On March 20th, 2020 with 121 comments
NASA needs 215 more petabytes of storage by the year 2025, and expects Amazon Web Services to provide the bulk of that capacity. However, the space agency...
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On March 2nd, 2020 with 51 comments
stikves writes: An organization called Vista Group recently uploaded dozens of VHS and cassette tapes from the 90s and early 2000s to the Internet Archive,...
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On February 12th, 2020 with 149 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A Philadelphia man has been freed after a federal appeals court ruled that his continued detention was...
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On February 7th, 2020 with 29 comments
The semiconductor industry last year suffered its worst annual slump in almost two decades, hurt by a trade war between the largest chip producer, the U.S.,...
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On January 27th, 2020 with 169 comments
"Cut back on email if you want to fight global warming," read the headline on a recent article at Bloomberg:
[A]ll those messages require energy to preserve...
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On December 17th, 2019 with 183 comments
davidwr writes: If you were going to buy a desktop or laptop computer, how important is it to be able to upgrade memory and storage after your purchase? Is not...
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On December 13th, 2019 with 29 comments
mschaffer writes: Apparently Facebook had a recent privacy problem of a different kind. A thief broke into an employee's car and stole equipment -- including...
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On December 7th, 2019 with 200 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: One of the big challenges of making 100 percent renewable energy a reality is long-term storage," says...
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On November 26th, 2019 with 113 comments
New submitter AllHail writes: HPE SAS solid state drives are affected by a firmware problem which causes these drives to stop working after 32768 power-on...
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On November 9th, 2019 with 120 comments
Slashdot reader dryriver writes:
Using a compressed disk drive or hard drive has been possible for decades now. But when you do this in software or the...
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On November 4th, 2019 with 93 comments
Microsoft has teamed up with Warner Bros. to text. The collaboration, which was unveiled at Microsoft's Ignite 2019 conference in Orlando, Florida Monday, is a...
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On October 23rd, 2019 with 13 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Microsoft's contracts with European Union institutions do not fully protect data in line with EU law, the...
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On October 23rd, 2019 with 64 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Information: There are a lot of ways companies can rack up high bills for using cloud services, sometimes...
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