Data Storage Stories for 2017

Nintendo Delaying 64GB Game Cards For Switch Until 2019, Says Report 54
Computer Pioneer Geoff Tootill Passed Away 36
Amazon Launches a Cloud Service For US Intelligence Agencies 55
A Global Shortage of Magnetic Tape Leaves Cassette Fans Reeling 276
Google Explains Tuesday's Drive, Docs Bug That Marked Some Files As Violating Terms of Service 97
CIA Releases 321GB of Bin Laden's Digital Library 125
Seagate's New 'SkyHawk AI' Disk Drive Is Just a Slightly Higher Speced Version of Its Predecessor 57
US Voting Server At Heart of Russian Hack Probe Mysteriously Wiped 431
Microwave Tech Could Produce 40TB Hard Drives In the Near Future 151
Researcher Turns HDD Into Rudimentary Microphone 65
Facebook To Build $1 Billion Data Center In Virginia 44
High Sierra's Disk Utility Does Not Recognize Unformatted Disks 135
Companies Are Once Again Storing Data On Tape, Just in Case 199
Russia Threatens To Shut Down Facebook Over Local Data Storage Laws 90
Google, Bing, Yahoo Data Retention Doesn't Improve Search Quality, Study Claims 38
Apple File System in macOS High Sierra Won't Work With Fusion Drives 123
PSA: Google Will Delete Your Android Backups If Your Device Is Inactive For Two Months 166
The Google Drive App For PC, Mac Is Being Shut Down In March 92
Google Drive Faces Outage, Users Report [Update] 75
SanDisk Breaks Storage Record With 400GB MicroSD Card 70
APFS Is Not Optional 330
BackBlaze's Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2017 99
A User Archived Nearly 2 Million Gigabytes of Porn to Test Amazon's 'Unlimited' Cloud Storage 233
Google Unveils a New, Cheaper Networking Option For Cloud Customers: the Public Internet 20
Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Cloud Backup Solutions That You Recommend? 241
Code42 Says Crashplan Backup Service Will Discontinue All Personal Backup Plans 137
'Biggest Data Center' To Be Built in Arctic 41
Intel Unveils One-Petabyte Storage Servers For Data Centers 58
Android 8.0's 'Streaming OS Updates' Will Work Even If Your Phone Is Full 40
Mozilla's Send is Basically the Snapchat of File Sharing 107
IBM and Sony Cram Up To 330 Terabytes Into Tiny Tape Cartridge 71
Are App Sizes Out of Control? 386
Upcoming USB 3.2 Specification Will Double Data Rates Using Existing Cables 159
Biologists Use Gene Editing To Store Movies In DNA 87
Western Digital Gets US Court Order To Access Toshiba Databases, Chip Samples 12
OneDrive Has Stopped Working On Non-NTFS Drives 130
Dropbox Is Rolling Out a Private Network to Speed Up File Access 40
Google Drive Will Soon Back Up Your Entire Computer 188
Developer Accidentally Deletes Production Database On Their First Day On The Job 418
Microsoft To Shut Down Its Docs.com File-Sharing Site December 15 37
Why Does Microsoft Still Offer a 32-bit OS? 367
Amazon Kills Off Unlimited Cloud Storage Option For Amazon Drive 76
Malware Uses Router LEDs To Steal Data From Secure Networks 105
Apple's New iOS File Manager Coming This Fall As Part of iOS 11 63
Apple Announces Native HEVC Support In MacOS High Sierra and iOS 11 136
What To Do If the Laptop Ban Goes Global 344
China's Unprecedented Cyber Law Signals Its Intent To Protect a Precious Commodity: Data 27
Google Chrome Bug Lets Sites Record Audio and Video Without a Visual Indicator 36
SSD Drives Vulnerable To Rowhammer-Like Attacks That Corrupt User Data 93
Open19 Launches Open Hardware Project Targeting Edge Computing 15
Microsoft Wants To Use DNA For Cloud Data Storage 50
Vint Cerf Reflects On The Last 60 Years 66
Endless OS Now Ships With Steam And Slack FlatPak Applications 95
HPE Unveils The Machine, a Single-Memory Computer Capable of Addressing 160 Terabytes 150
Tesla's Highly-Anticipated Solar Roofs Go Up For Pre-Order Today 143
Fedora Will Get Full Mp3 Support, As IIS Fraunhofer Terminates Mp3 Licensing Program 133
Samsung May Overtake Intel As World's Largest Chip Maker In 2017 56
Developer Shares A Recoverable Container Format That's File System Agnostic 133
Intel Launches Optane Memory That Makes Standard Hard Drives Perform Like SSDs 145
G.SKILL Hits 4500MHz With All-New Trident Z DDR4-4333MHz 16GB Memory Kit 72
New 'Spray-On' Memory Could Turn Everyday Items Into Digital Storage Devices 38
'Arctic World Archive' Will Keep the World's Data Safe In an Arctic Mineshaft 71
Norway's Doomsday Vault Will Now Store and Protect the World's Data 84
Next-Generation DDR5 RAM Will Double the Speed of DDR4 In 2018 77
With Optane Memory, Intel Claims To Make Hard Drives Faster Than SSDs 109
Steve Wozniak Invests In Robot-Powered Paper-Digitizing Startup 54
Intel Unveils Optane SSD DC P4800X Drive That Can Act As Cache Or Storage 63
'Sorry, I've Forgotten My Decryption Password' is Contempt Of Court, Pal - US Appeal Judges 522
Laptop SSD Capacity To Remain Flat As NAND Flash Dearth Causes Prices To Rise 167
New 'USG' Firewalls Protect USB Drives From Malicious Attacks 67
Ancient Technique Can Dramatically Improve Memory, Research Suggests 190
PlayStation 4.5 Update Brings HDD Support, PS4 Pro 'Boost Mode' 40
IBM Researchers Prove It Is Possible To Store Data In a Single Atom 84
Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? 475
Amazon Pledges To Cover 15 Massive Warehouse Rooftops With Solar Panels 44
Researchers Store Computer OS, Short Movie On DNA 95
Court Throws Out $533 Million Verdict Against Apple Over Data Storage Patent 47
Battle of the Carriers: T-Mobile's New Promotion Offers Three Unlimited Data Lines For $100 61
Toshiba Plans To Ship a 1TB Flash Chip To Manufacturers This Spring 26
Sony Unveils World's Fastest SD Card 48
Western Digital Unveils First-Ever 512Gb 64-Layer 3D NAND Chip 78
Sony PlayStation 4 Is Finally Adding Support For External Hard Drive 45
Annual Hard Drive Reliability Report: 8TB, HGST Disks Top Chart Racking Up 45 Years Without Failure 114
GitLab.com Melts Down After Wrong Directory Deleted, Backups Fail 356
Razer Buys Nextbit 12
Seagate Says 16TB Hard Drive To Hit Market Within 18 Months 232
Tesla Sues Former Autopilot Executive For Allegedly Stealing Secrets, Poaching Coworkers 47
Dropbox Kept Files Around For Years Due To 'Delete' Bug 73
Netflix Will Now Let Android Users Download Content Onto SD Storage 62
Malwarebytes Discovers 'First Mac Malware of 2017' 60
Raspberry Pi Upgrades Compute Module With 10 Times the CPU Performance 71
Verizon Purges Unlimited Data Customers, Targets Those Using 200GB 196
AMD Unveils Vega GPU Architecture With 512 Terabytes of Memory Address Space 125
'Forza Horizon 3' Update Accidentally Published Unencrypted Build of the Game 70
Scientists Turn Memory Chips Into Processors To Speed Up Computing Tasks 73
Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate GT 2TB Is World's Largest Capacity Flash Drive 79