Data Storage Stories for 2016

Dropbox Kills Public Folders, Users Rebel 158
French Man Sentenced To Two Years In Prison For Visiting Pro-ISIS Websites 414
Seagate Introduces External Hard Drive That Automatically Backs Up To Amazon's Cloud 106
Scientists Turn Nuclear Waste Into Diamond Batteries 156
Samsung Launches SSD 960 EVO NVMe Drive At 3GB/Sec and Under .50 Per Gigabyte 108
Apple's New 15-Inch MacBook Pros Have Storage Soldered To the Logic Board 478
Spotify Is Writing Massive Amounts of Junk Data To Storage Drives 196
New Software Remembers Everything Your Computer Has Ever Displayed 117
Researchers Make a High-Performance Battery From Junkyard Scraps 117
Chipmaker Broadcom To Buy Network Gear Maker Brocade For $5.5 Billion 33
NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Sends Back Last Bit of Data From 2015 Pluto Flyby 60
New MacBook Pros Max Out At 16GB RAM Due To Battery Life Concerns 319
Delta Now Lets You Track Your Baggage In Real-Time 74
Rowhammer Attack Can Now Root Android Devices 100
VeraCrypt Security Audit Reveals Many Flaws, Some Already Patched 75
Prosecutors Say NSA Contractor Could Flee To Foreign Power 44
32GB iPhone 7 Has 8 Times Slower Storage Performance Than 128GB Model 159
Evernote Confirms a Serious Bug Caused Data Loss For Some Mac Users 31
Researchers Restore the First Recording of Computer-Generated Music 127
FBI Agreed To Destroy Laptops of Clinton Aides With Immunity Deal, Sources Say 500
Vint Cerf Warns About the Perishability Of Human Knowledge 348
With HDDs On The Ropes, Samsung Predicts SSD Price Collisions As NVMe Takes Over 161
LastPass On Mobile Is Now Free 10
Amazon Is Killing Off Its $12/Year Plan For Unlimited Photo Storage 50
SanDisk's 1TB SD Card Aims To Solve Your Storage Problems 98
Malware Infects 70% of Seagate Central NAS Drives, Earns $86,400 98
Amazon Launches Updated Fire HD 8 Tablet Now With Alexa Voice Services 61
HP Enterprise Reaches $8.8 Billion Deal With Micro Focus For Software Assets 31
Meet URL, the USB Porn-Sniffing Dog 299
Staff Breach At OneLogin Exposes Password Storage Feature 47
Ask Slashdot: What's The Best Way To Backup Large Amounts Of Personal Data? 366
RIP John Ellenby, Godfather of the Modern Laptop 33
Intel Launches Flurry of 3D NAND-Based SSDs For Consumer and Enterprise Markets 145
Turkish Journalist Jailed For Terrorism Was Framed, Forensic Report Shows 103
Should Cloud Vendors Decrypt Data For The Government? 136
HPE Acquires SGI For $275 Million 100
Seagate Reveals 'World's Largest' 60TB SSD 162
8TB Drives Are Highly Reliable, Says Backblaze 209
AMD Unveils Radeon Pro WX and Pro SSG Professional Graphics Cards 53
Facebook's Android App Can Now Save Offline Videos 30
Researchers Develop Atomic-Scale Hard Drive That Writes Information Atom By Atom 68
Encrypted DNA Storage Investigated by DOE Researchers 42
A Smaller Version of Raspberry Pi 3 Is Coming Soon 89
Microsoft To Begin Reducing Your Free OneDrive Cloud Storage Starting Today 212
FBI Has Collected 430,000 Iris Scans In 'Pilot Program' 32
Seagate Fires 6,500, Or 14% of Workforce, Stock Soars 224
UW, Microsoft Successfully Encoded 200MB of Data Onto Synthetic DNA Molecules 46
Samsung Unveils World's First UFS Storage Cards, Could Replace MicroSD 221
iPhone 7 To Start at 32GB Storage, Says WSJ 235
The Fight To Save the Australian Digital Archive Trove 87
Study: 78% of Resold Drives Still Contain Readable Personal or Business Data 207
SanDisk Made an iPhone Case With Built-In Storage 48
Online Backup Firm Carbonite Tells Users To Change Their Passwords Now 35
PayPal Dumped Cloud Company After It Refused To Monitor Customers' Files 126
Microsoft Warns of ZCryptor Ransomware With Self-Propagation Features 71
Department of Homeland Security Still Uses COBOL 217
Backblaze Releases Billion-Hour Hard Drive Reliability Report 130
Google Unveils 'Gigapixel' Camera To Preserve and Archive Art 71
IBM's Optical Storage Is 50 Times Faster Than Flash, And Also Cheaper 77
Samsung Unveils 256GB MicroSD Card, Highest Capacity In Its Class 117
Datto Launches Datto Drive For SMBs; Offers 1TB at $10 a Month For Unlimited Users 51
Slashdot Asks: What's Your View On Benchmark Apps? 50
Microsoft Buys Into DNA Data Storage 81
Tesla Will Install More Energy Storage With SolarCity In 2016 Than The US Installed In 2015 149
Intel Confirms Major Layoff: 12,000 Worldwide, 11 Percent of Workforce 238
Up To 35,000 Gallons of Nuclear Waste Leak At Washington State Storage Site 135
In Major Cloud Expansion, Google To Open 12 More Data Centers 42
Study Finds That Humidity Has More Effect On Drive Failures Than Temperature 85
Facebook Preps Its Infrastructure For a Virtual Reality Future 53
Dropbox Moves Users' Data Off Amazon S3 to Its Own Infrastructure 45
Raspberry Pi Gets Affordable, Power Efficient 314GB Hard Drive On Pi Day 144
Intel's Optane SSD Compatible With NVMe; Could Boost MacBook Storage Speeds By 1000x 76
9 Open Source Alternatives To Picasa 86
Thanks For the Memories: Touring the Awesome Random Access of Old 89
There's No End In Sight For Data Storage Capacity 107
OwnCloud Server 9.0 Officially Released 82
Seagate Debuts World's Fastest NVMe SSD With 10GBps Throughput 66
Samsung Ships 15.38TB SSD With Up To 1,200MBps Performance 103
Google-Backed SSD Endurance Research Shows MLC Flash As Reliable As SLC 62
Google Proposes New Hard Drive Format For Data Centers 202
Opera Founder Opens Up About New Vivaldi Browser 73
Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS Officially Released 61
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS To Have Official Support For ZFS File System 191
Intel and Micron Partnership Soon To Launch 10TB SSD For Enterprise Market 94
Data Written With "Superman Memory Crystal" Could Last Billions of Years 151
Backblaze Dishes On Drive Reliability In their 50k+ Disk Data Center 145
Samsung Returns To 2D, Releases 250GB 750 EVO For $75 37
Nanostructured Glass Could Provide Highly Durable, Deeply Dense Data Storage 118
OCZ Toshiba Breaks 30 Cents Per GB Barrier With New Trion 150 SSD 141
NAND Flash Density Surpasses HDDs', But Price Is Still a Sticking Point 185
Storing Very Large Files On Amazon's Unlimited Cloud Photo Storage 229
Barracuda Copy Shutting Down 52
Triple M.2 NVMe RAID-0 Testing Proves Latency Reductions 73
Six Missing HDDs Contain Health Information of Nearly a Million Patients 87
Facebook Building World's 'Most Advanced' Data Center In Irish Village 60
Anti-Terrorism Hypothetical: Bulk Scanning of Hosted Files? 284
Service Provider Builds National Network of Unmanned Data Centers 33
Seagate Adopts Helium For a 10TB HDD 175
Uber Scaling Up Its Data Center Infrastructure 33
OCZ RevoDrive 400 NVMe SSD Unveiled With Nearly 2.7GB/Sec Tested Throughput 117
Panasonic To Commercialize Facebook's Blu-Ray Cold Storage Systems 56
Verizon Launches Auction To Sell Data Centers 39
Gene Roddenberry's Floppy Disks Recovered 277