Data Storage Stories

Amazon Owes $525 Million In Cloud-Storage Patent Fight, US Jury Says 38
San Francisco's Light Rail To Upgrade From Floppy Disks 113
Cinephiles Rallying To Physical Media 110
Pi Calculated to 105 Trillion Digits. (Stored on 1 Petabyte of SSDs) 95
Caffeine Makes Fuel Cells More Efficient, Cuts Cost of Energy Storage 40
Study Finds That We Could Lose Science If Publishers Go Bankrupt 66
China Breakthrough Promises Optical Discs That Store Hundreds of Terabytes 38
Scientists Create DVD-Sized Disk Storing 1 Petabit (125,000 Gigabytes) of Data 113
Microsoft's Gaming CEO Says Xbox Won't Go All-Digital Just Yet 78
What Happens After Throughput to DNA Storage Drives Surpasses 2 Gbps? 35
OpenZFS Native Encryption Use Has New(ish) Data Corruption Bug 16
Backblaze's Geriatric Hard Drives Kicked the Bucket More in 2023 51
New Hutter Prize Awarded for Even Smaller Data Compression Milestone 22
Report Reveals Decline In Quality of USB Sticks, MicroSD Cards 71
Linus Torvalds Has 'Robust Exchanges' Over Filesystem Suggestion on Linux Kernel Mailing List 121
Google One is About To Hit 100 Million Subscribers 34
Japan Will No Longer Require Floppy Disks For Submitting Some Official Documents 45
Hans Reiser Sends a Letter From Prison 181
Ceph: a Journey To 1 TiB/s 16
30TB Hard Drives Are Nearly Here 74
DVD Resurgence To Prevent Films From Disappearing 131
Ministry of Justice Plans To Digitize Then Destroy 100 Million Historical Wills 88
Google Calls Drive Data Loss 'Fixed,' Locks Forum Threads Saying Otherwise 22
China Sinks 1400-Ton Data Center In Sea With Power of 6 Million PCs 70
Want To Store a Message in DNA? That'll Be $1,000 38
Google Drive Misplaces Months' Worth of Customer Files 82
Scientists Use Raspberry Pi Tech To Protect NASA Telescope Data 38
SanDisk Extreme Pro Failures Result From Design and Manufacturing Flaws, Says Data Recovery Firm 38
Google Promises a Rescue Patch For Android 14's 'Ransomware' Bug 33
Western Digital To Split Flash Memory Business 10
Android 14 Storage Bug Has Users Locked Out of Their Devices 18
British Museum Will Digitize Entire Collection At a Cost of $12.1 Million In Response To Thefts 89
Is Glass the Future of Storage? 170
Reviewer Tests $3 SATA SSD, Gets Exactly What They Paid For 51
India's Early Electronic Music From the '70s Is Finally Being Released 38
Android 14 Still Doesn't Calculate Device Storage Utilization Correctly 22
Cerabyte Ceramic Storage Poised To Usher In 'Yottabyte Era' 43
Toyota Says Filled Disk Storage Halted Japan-Based Factories 67
Dropbox Ends Unlimited Cloud Storage Following Google Change 46
SanDisk Extreme SSDs Are 'Worthless,' Multiple Lawsuits Against WD Say 52
Western Digital Sued Over Claims of Data-Trashing SanDisk, My Passport SSDs 38
SanDisk's Silence Deafens as High-Profile Users Say Extreme SSDs Still Broken 56
Backblaze Probes Increased Annualized Failure Rate For Its 240,940 HDDs 28
Sixth 'Hutter Prize' Awarded for Achieving New Data Compression Milestone 64
Western Digital Sparks Panic, Anger For Age-Shaming HDDs 124
Will Submerging Computers Make Data Centers More Climate Friendly? 138
Why Millions of Usable Hard Drives Are Being Destroyed 168
ARM Joins Linux Foundation's 'Open Programmable Infrastructure' Project 18
Dropbox-like Cloud Storage Service Shadow Drive Lowers Its Price 22
SanDisk Extreme SSDs Keep Abruptly Failing 59
Drobo, Having Stopped Sales and Support, Reportedly Files Chapter 7 Bankruptcy 36
Pure Storage: No More Hard Drives Will Be Sold After 2028 154
HDDs Typically Failed in Under 3 Years in Backblaze Study of 17,155 Failed Drives 102
Seagate To Pay $300 Million Penalty For Shipping Huawei 7 Million Hard Drives 66
Hackers Claim Vast Access To Western Digital Systems 29
After Disrupting Businesses, Google Drive's Secret File Cap is Dead for Now 45
Google Brings 'Nearby Share' To Windows, Making It Easy To Transfer Files 25
Western Digital Says Hackers Stole Data in Network Security Breach 7
HDD Average Life Span Misses 3-Year Mark In Study of 2,007 Defective Drives 64
Zippyshare Quits After 17 Years, 45 Million Visits Per Month Makes No Money 81
Backblaze Finds SSDs Are More Reliable Than HDDs 51
Florida Startup Moves Closer to Building Data Centers on the Moon 133
First PCIe 5.0 M.2 SSDs Are Now Available, Predictably Expensive 50
Arlo's Security Cameras Will Keep Free Cloud Storage For Existing Customers After All 21
Microsoft Will Wipe Free Teams Business Users' Data If They Don't Upgrade To a Paid Tier 62
Huge Capacity HDDs Shine In Latest Storage Reliability Report But There's A Caveat 39
Fake SSDs With Great Reviews Are Still Popping Up on Amazon 93
LastPass: Hackers Stole Customer Vault Data In Cloud Storage Breach 38
New Nonprofit 'Flickr Foundation' Hopes to Preserve Its Billions of Photos For 100 Years 22
Linux Kernel Fixes Longstanding Bug in Its Handling of Floppy Disks 57
Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor Assets To Bring Zero-Knowledge Encryption To File Storage 12
Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor Assets To Bring Zero-Knowledge Encryption To File Storage 30
Android TV Will Require App Bundles In 2023, Should Reduce App Size By 20% 14
New Mac App Wants To Record Everything You Do - So You Can 'Rewind' It Later 41
How a Redditor Ended Up With an Industrial-Grade Netflix Server 40
Smartphone Storage Space Is the New Turf War for Game Makers 51
The World's Largest Single-Phase Battery Is Now Up and Running 64
Lost Something? Search Through 91.7 Million Files From the 80s, 90s, and 2000s 57
Datacenter Fire Takes Out South Korea's Top Two Web Giants 10
Can DNA Help Us Store Data for 1,000 Years? 50
Big Tech, Banks, Government Departments Shred Millions of Storage Devices They Could Reuse 80
Universities Adapt To Google's New Storage Fees, Or Migrate Away Entirely 91
Better Than JPEG? Researcher Discovers That Stable Diffusion Can Compress Images 93
Small Dongle Brings the HDD Clicking Back To SSDs In Retro PCs 117
Morgan Stanley Hard Drives With Client Data Turn Up On Auction Site 70
Germany's Blanket Data Retention Law Is Illegal, EU Top Court Says 20
Last Floppy-Disk Seller Says Airlines Still Order the Old Tech 61
Meet the Man Who Still Sells Floppy Disks 113
Five Years of Data Show That SSDs Are More Reliable Than HDDs Over the Long Haul 82
Extreme California Heat Knocks Key Twitter Data Center Offline 62
US State of Virginia Has More Datacenter Capacity Than Europe or China 42
Underwater Datacenter Will Open For Business This Year 71
Japan Declares 'War' on the Humble Floppy Disk in New Digitization Push 85
Walmart Lists a 30TB Portable SSD for Just $39. It's a Scam 122
Samsung Debuts the 990 Pro Series SSD With Big Speed and Efficiency Improvements 29
Vietnam Demands Big Tech Localize Data Storage and Offices 6
Old Laptop Hard Drives Will Allegedly Crash When Exposed To Janet Jackson Music 59
The Dirty Carbon Secret Behind Solid State Memory Drives 146
Base Model MacBook Air With M2 Chip Has Slower SSD Speeds In Benchmarks 45
World's First Commercial Sand Battery Begins Energy Storage In Finland 68
Storage Firm Drobo Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy 44
Microsoft Trying To Kill HDD Boot Drives By 2023, Report Says 214
Larger-than-30TB Hard Drives Are Coming Much Sooner Than Expected 66
Two-Inch Diamond Wafers Could Store a Billion Blu-Ray's Worth of Data 81
Warzone Dev Says Game Is Losing Players Over 'Insane' Download Sizes 92
DirectStorage Shows Just Minor Load-Speed Improvements In Real-World PC Demo 23
Apple's New Studio Display Has 64GB of Onboard Storage 46
Nvidia Wants To Speed Up Data Transfer By Connecting Data Center GPUs To SSDs 15
Russia Will Run Out of Data Storage In Two Months 138
Ukraine Prepares Potential Move of Sensitive Data To Another Country 31
Researchers 'Upgrade' DNA Alphabet Beyond A, C, G, T to Expand Data Storage 75
Backblaze Has Released Their First Drive Stats Report For SSDs 32
Ask Slashdot: Is It Time To Replace File Systems? 209
Windows 10 and 11 21H2 Data Wiping Tool Leaves User Data On Disk 36
The End of Free Google Storage for Education 40
Western Digital Says Contamination Impacting Production at Japanese Facilities 55
Backblaze Uncovers the Most Reliable Hard Drives 40
macOS 12.3 Will Break Cloud-Storage Features Used By Dropbox and OneDrive 68
'UltraRAM' Breakthrough Could Combine Memory and Storage Into One 99
PCI Express 6.0 Specification Finalized: x16 Slots To Reach 128GBps 31
University Loses 77TB of Research Data Due To Backup Error 74
Tokyo Police Lose 2 Floppy Disks Containing Personal Info on 38 Public Housing Applicants 101
Ask Slashdot: How Many Files Are on Your Computer? 164
Google Drive Could Soon Start Locking Your Files 76
Telecom Data Storage Locations Will Soon Be Public In Japan 4
Microsoft Makes Breakthrough In the Quest To Use DNA As Data Storage 43
Is 'The NFT Bay' Just a Giant Hoax? 74
'The NFT Bay' Shares Multi-Terabyte Archive of 'Pirated' NFTs 88
Seagate Unveils First Ever PCIe NVMe HDD 70
Transparency Activists Dump 1.8 Terabytes of Police Helicopter Surveillance Footage 64
Dropbox Is Adding Folders That Will Automatically Organize For You 23
5D Optical Disc Could Store 500TB For Billions of Year 133
Audio Tape Interface Revives Microcassettes As Storage Medium 78
Scientists Have Successfully Recorded Data To DNA In a Few Short Minutes 29
Cloudflare To Enter Infrastructure Services Market With New R2 Storage Product 19
What's the Best Ransomware Backup Solution: Disk or Tape? 165
Fired NY Credit Union Employee Nukes 21GB of Data In Revenge 123
Blue Origin's Stay of SpaceX's Moon Lander Contract Gets One-Week Extension Thanks to...PDF Files 80
Samsung Is the Latest SSD Manufacturer Caught Cheating Its Customers 53
Western Digital Caught Bait-and-Switching Customers With Slow SSDs 92
Western Digital in Advanced Talks To Merge With Japan's Kioxia Holdings 15
Synthetic Brain Cells That Store 'Memories' Are Possible, New Model Reveals 21
Can You Recycle a Hard Drive? Google is Quietly Trying To Find Out 47
Google is Finally Doing Something About Google Drive Spam 15
New Hutter Prize Winner Achieves Milestone for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge 60
Backblaze Raises Subscription Pricing of Personal Backup 73
Another Exploit Hits WD My Book Live Owners 50
Intel's New Optane SSD P5800X Is the Fastest SSD Drive Ever Made 24
Western Digital Blames Remotely-Installed Trojans for Wiping 'My Book' Storage Devices 103
Xbox's DirectStorage API Will Speed Up Gaming PCs On Windows 11 Only 93
WD My Book Users Wake Up To Find Their Data Deleted 3
Ultra-High-Density HDDs Made With Graphene Store Ten Times More Data 62
Seagate 'Exploring' Possible New Line of Crypto-Specific Hard Drives 47
Apple's Moves Point To a Future With No Bootable Backups, Says Developer 105
Seagate's New Mach.2 Is the World's Fastest Conventional Hard Drive 93
Tesla Wants To Make Every Home a Distributed Power Plant 155
Data Center Backup Generator Kicks In During Power Outage and Catches Fire 71
Ask Slashdot: Is a Software RAID Better Than a Hardware RAID? 359
Box Explores Sale Amid Pressure from Starboard 34
Victoria University of Wellington Accidentally Deletes All Files Stored On Desktop Computers 142
7-Zip Developer Releases the First Official Linux Version 87
Dropbox To Acquire Secure Document Sharing Startup DocSend for $165M 9
Toshiba Unveils World's First FC-MAMR HDD: 18 TB, Helium Filled 147
Apple M1 Mac Users Report Excessive SSD Wear 274
Quixotic Californian Crusade To Officially Recognize the Hellabyte 128
Windows 10 Bug Corrupts Your Hard Drive On Seeing This File's Icon 96
The Thinking Behind the 32GB Windows Format Limit On FAT32 124
Fujifilm and IBM Set World Record With 580TB Magnetic Tapes 53
Memory vs. Disk vs. CPU: How 35 Years Has Changed the Trade-Offs 103
Flash Animations Live Forever At the Internet Archive 29
Ask Slashdot: What's the Ultimate Backup System? Cloud? Local? Sync? Dupes? Tape...? 289
A Self-Taught Garage Inventor Sees His Liquid Air Storage Idea Make the Big Time 129
Western Digital's Ultrastar DC ZN540 Is the World's First ZNS SSD 30
Come June 1, All of Your New Photos Will Count Against Your Free Google Storage 63
SSDs Are Primed To Get Bigger and Faster With Micron's New NAND Memory Tech 48
Seagate Says 20 TB HAMR Drives Will Arrive in December, 50 TB Capacities in 2026 83
Some Google One Plans Now Come With a Complimentary VPN 16
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020 37
Google Is Killing Unlimited Drive Storage For Non-Enterprise Users 50
Microsoft Testing Windows 10 Feature That'll Detect If Your SSD Is Failing 39
Seagate Unveils CORTX Object Storage Software with Lyve Drive Rack Hardware Reference Design 18
Samsung's Fast, PCIe 4.0-ready 980 Pro SSD Can Future-Proof Your PC Build 78
Apple One Bundles iCloud, Music, TV+, Arcade, News+ and Fitness+ for $30 a Month 35
Microsoft's Underwater Data Centre Resurfaces After Two Years 71
Huawei Closing Enterprise Hardware Division In the UK 13
Synology Launches DiskStation DS1520+ 55
Dropbox Launches Password Manager, Computer Backup, and Secure 'Vaults' Out of Beta 19
The Next Step In SSD Evolution: NVMe Zoned Namespaces Explained 8
Google One Now Offers Free Phone Backups Up To 15GB on Android and iOS 27
Researchers Use DNA to Store 'The Wizard of Oz' - Translated Into Esperanto 74
GitHub Buries Giant Open-Source Archive In An Arctic Vault 44
Spintronics Researchers Demonstrate How to Process Magnetic Vortices for Data Storage 5
400 TB Storage Drives In Our Future: Fujifilm 51
OpenZFS Removed Offensive Terminology From Its Code 504
Tech Terms Face Scrutiny Amid Anti-Racism Efforts 318
Western Digital's SMR Disks Won't Work For ZFS, But They're Okay For Most NASes. 74
Could Granite Solve the Hard Problem of Nuclear Waste Storage? 152
Western Digital Gets Sued For Sneaking SMR Disks Into Its NAS Channel 79
A $350 'Anti-5G' Device Is Just a 128MB USB Stick, Teardown Finds 198
Sabrent Unveils Record-Breaking 8TB Rocket Q NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD 74
SD Cards Are About To Get Insanely fast 81
Toshiba Publishes Full List of Its Drives Using Slower SMR Technology 90
WD Sets the Record Straight: Lists All Drives That Use Slower SMR Tech 138
Storage Vendors Are Quietly Slipping SMR Disks Into Consumer Hard Drives 221
Microsoft Reports a 775 Percent Increase In Usage of Azure Cloud Services 29
HPE Says Firmware Bug Will Brick Some SSDs Starting in October this Year 97
NASA To Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS, But Forgot About Egress Costs Before Lift-Off 121
Archivists Are Uploading Hundreds of Random VHS Tapes To the Internet 51
Man Who Refused To Decrypt Hard Drives Is Free After Four Years In Jail 149
Chip Industry Had Worst Sales Year Since Dot-Com Bubble Burst 29
Do Emails Contribute to Global Warming? 169
A Billion Medical Images Are Exposed Online, As Doctors Ignore Warnings 70
Scientists Store Data in Synthetic DNA Embedded in a Plastic Bunny 11
Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Upgradable Storage and Memory When Buying a New Computer? 183
Someone Stole Facebook Payroll Data For Thousands of Employees 29
New Plundervolt Attack Impacts Intel Desktop, Server, and Mobile CPUs 74
Scientists Propose Using Mountains To Build a New Type of Battery For Long-Term Energy Storage 200
Some HPE SSDs Fail After 3 Years and 9 Months, Company Warns 113
Ask Slashdot: What Happened To Holographic Data Storage? 86
GitHub Places Open-Source Code In Arctic Cave For Safekeeping 50
Ask Slashdot: Are There Storage Devices With Hardware Compression Built In? 120
Microsoft and Warner Bros. Archived the Original 'Superman' Movie on a Futuristic Glass Disc 93
EU Data Watchdog Raises Concerns Over Microsoft Contracts 13
AWS Customers Rack Up Hefty Bills For Moving Data 64
Microsoft Stops Trusting SSD Makers 56
Google One Now Backs Up Texts, 'Original Quality' Photos, and Videos on Android 28
Fukushima To Possibly Dump Radioactive Water Back Into Ocean 314
Samsung Announces Standards-Compliant Key-Value SSD Prototype 74
Microsoft Readies exFAT Patents For Linux and Open Source 119
An Ode To Microsoft Encarta 81
Toshiba Introduces New Tiny NVMe SSD Form Factor 61
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q2 2019 127
Dropbox Irks Mac Users With Annoying Dock Icon, Offers Clueless Support 67
Dropbox Brings Back Support For ZFS, XFS, Btrfs And eCryptFS On Linux 69
Startup Aims To Tackle Grid Storage Problem With New Porous Silicon Battery 245
Dropbox Accidentally Installed New File Manager App On Users' Systems 74
The New 2019 MacBook Air Features a Slower SSD Than 2018 Model 121
The Most Clever 'Zip Bomb' Ever Made Explodes a 46MB File To 4.5 Petabytes 102
DNA Data Storage Is Closer Than You Think 72
Microsoft Announces OneDrive Personal Vault For Sensitive Files 69
Siemens Gamesa Unveils World First Electrothermal Energy Storage System 127
Google Drive Will Stop Syncing With Google Photos In July 48
Huawei Has Now Been Cut Off By the SD Association, Wi-Fi Alliance 276
Your Internet Data is Rotting 141
512GB SSDs' Price-Per-GB Estimated To Fall Below $0.1 and Hit an All-Time Low This Year End 138
Backblaze HDD Reliability Stats for Q1 2019 66
HDD Shipments Fell Nearly 13% in the First Quarter of 2019, 18% Since Last Year 143
The Black Hole Image Data Was Spread Across 5 Petabytes Stored On About Half a Ton of Hard Drives 293
Microsoft Drops 'Safe Removal' of USB Drives As Default In Windows 10 1809 171
Florida Utility To Close Two Natural Gas Plants, Build World's Largest Solar Battery System 102

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