Data Storage Stories for 2011

Best Software For Putting Lectures Online? 126
Ask Slashdot: Best Inexpensive VPS Provider? 375
Major Australian Retailer Accused of Selling Infected Hard Drives 128
Average Web Page Approaches 1MB 319
Apple Buys Israeli Flash Manufacturer 114
Hard Drive Prices Slide As Thai Flood Aftermath Subsides 155
Hard Drive Makers Slash Warranties 445
Coming Soon: Ubiquitous Long-Term Surveillance From Big Brother 191
Intel Revenue Dives $1bn On Hard Disk Shortage 198
PC Makers Run Short of Popular Drives 353
Two-Thirds of Lost USB Drives Carry Malware 196
Intel and Micron Unveil 128Gb NAND Chip 133
Webhosting For A Large Art Project? 137
Hybrid Storage Solutions Compared 61
Discouraging Playstation Vita Details 275
IBM Makes First Racetrack Memory Chip 51
Ask Slashdot: Handling and Cleaning Up a Large Personal Email Archive? 167
Apple May Build Oregon Data Center Next To Facebook's 91
Is the Time Finally Right For Hybrid Hard Drives? 311
Obama Orders Federal Agencies To Digitize All Records 186
Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process? 253
Hard Drive Prices Up 150% In Less Than Two Months 304
Ask Slashdot: Data Remanence Solutions? 209
Whither the Portable Optical Drive? 440
Dropbox Pursues Business Accounts, But Falls Short On Privacy Laws 122
Rethinking the Nature of Files 369
ASUS Running Out of Hard Disks 207
Retailers Respond To HDD Squeeze By Limiting Purchases, Raising Prices 282
OCZ Releases First 1TB Laptop SSD 128
Entry-Level NAS Storage Servers Compared 182
Flooding Takes Major Hard Drive Plant Offline; Shortages Predicted 203
Dell, EMC Divorce After 10-Year Reseller Relations 51
Table Salt Could Help Boost HDD Storage Density By a Factor of 5 142
No PDFs, No Co-editing On Underwhelming Apple iCloud 189
Ask Slashdot: Create Custom Recovery Partitions With FOSS? 133
ISPs 'Exaggerate the Cost of Data' 173
Red Hat Acquiring Cloud Storage Company Gluster 34
Hitachi-LG Fined $21M For Price-Fixing Optical Drives 98
Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? 1016
Ask Slashdot: Best Long-Term Video/Picture Storage? 499
Man-In-the-Middle Remote Attack On Diebold Voting Machines 251
Purdue Researchers Demonstrate Low-Power, Fast FeTRAM Memory 50
Samsung Launches SSD 830 Drive 148
OCZ Wants To Cache Your HDD With an SSD 189
Ask Slashdot: Recovering Data From 20-Year-Old Diskettes? 375
3TB Hard Drive Round Up 238
Costly SSDs Worth It, Users Say 288
Toshiba Adds Two-Way Wi-Fi To SD Card 77
Battle of the SATA 3.0 Controllers 138
IBM Building 120PB Cluster Out of 200,000 Hard Disks 290
Hurricane Irene Threatens US Northeast; Cover Your Assets 202
Rare Earth Restrictions To Raise Hard Drive Cost 254
New Serial ATA Standards Target SSDs, Tablets 113
Start-Up Claims Immortality For Data With 'Stone-Like' Disc 261
AMD Enters Desktop Memory Market 65
eBay Deploys 100TB of SSDs, Cuts Rackspace By Half 197
WD's Terabyte Scorpio Notebook Drive Tested 100
Analyzing Long-Term SSD Failure Rates 149
TN BlueCross Encrypts All Data After 57 Disks Stolen 140
Australian ALDIs Sell Conficker-Infected Hard Drives 75
GE Bets On Holographic Optical Storage 159
DIY Dropbox Alternatives 188
Why Waste Servers' Heat? 204
IBM Speeds Storage With Flash: 10B Files In 43 Min 76
GE To Sample 500GB DVD-Size Discs Soon 179
Ask Slashdot: Best Offline Storage Method For Large Archives? 397
Dumpster Drive: File-Sharing For Your Digital Trash 79
Inside Las Vegas' Biggest Data Centre 106
Build Your Own Time Capsule Work-Alike For $200 208
Researchers Build "Squishy" Memory Device 84
Six-Drive SATA III SSD Round-Up Shows Big Gains 129
Google+ Runs Out of Disk Space, Swamps Users With Notifications 321
Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' 509
SKA Telescope Set To Generate More Data Than Current Net 73
Dropbox Releases Revised TOS 90
Dropbox TOS Includes Broad Copyright License 213
First Thunderbolt Peripherals Arrive To Market 259
Hard Drive Overclocking Competition From Secau 162
'Digital Universe' To Add 1.8 Zettabyte In 2011 60
Dropbox Password Goof Let Any Password Work For 4 Hours 185
Ask Slashdot: Tools For Linux Disk Encryption and Integrity? 123
Google Asks 'Who Cares Where Your Data Is?' 241
Fedora 16 To Use Btrfs Filesystem By Default 198
Ask Slashdot: Software To Organise a Heterogeneous Mix of Files? 254
Ask Slashdot: Uses For a Small Office Server? 260
Phase Change Memory Points To Future of Storage 70
Too Much Data? Then 'Good Enough' Is Good Enough 56
OCZ Couples SSD, Mechanical Storage On a PCIe Card 201
Dropbox Accused of Lying About Security 265
Google Storage Is Now Available To All Developers 62
Writing Linux Kernel Functions In CUDA With KGPU 101
Ask Slashdot: How Do You File Paper Documents At Home? 371
What Happens To Data When a Cloud Provider Dies? 262
Facebook's Server Room, Penthouse Cooling Caught On Video 47
Erasing CDs By Using 150,000 Volts of Electricity 242
The 'Three Ton' Hard Drive Destroyer 206
Samsung HD Unit Bought By Seagate 153
Apple Wants To Store Your History In the Cloud 99
Photo Tour of Facebook's Open Source Datacenter 70
Self-Wiping Hard Drives From Toshiba 268
A Closer Look At Immersion Cooling For the Data Center 213
Magical Chinese Hard Drive 347
'Zodiac Island' Makers Say ISP Worker Wiped an Entire Season 228
It's World Backup Day 135
Intel Replaces Consumer SSD Line, Nixes SLC-SSD 165
Yahoo Seeks Open Source Community Support 73
A Late Adopter's Guide To USB 3.0 185
3TB Hard Drives Square Off Against Everything Else 160
Hard Disk Sector Consolidates Amid Uncertain Future 237
Intel SSD 510 Series 6Gbps SATA Drives Tested 79
Ask Slashdot: Facebook Archiving? 368
SSDs Cause Crisis For Digital Forensics 491
Intel Unveils SSDs With 6Gbit/Sec Throughput 197
Encrypting Phone Storage and Transmission? (2011 Version) 198
Confidential Data Not Safe On Solid State Disks 376
Intel 310 Series Mini SSDs Now Shipping, Benchmark 121
File Organization — How Do You Do It In 2011? 356
The Sum Total of the World's Knowledge: 250 Exabytes 168
Looking Back At Microsoft's Rocky History In Storage Tech 241
Insider-Trading Suspects Smash Hard Drive Evidence 364
How Do You Protect Servers From a Rogue Admin? 219
How Do You Store Your Personal Photos? 680
Canada Explores New Frontiers In Astroinformatics 39
Cassandra 0.7 Can Pack 2 Billion Columns Into a Row 235
Lustre File System Getting New Community Distro 68
EMC Engineer Steals Almost $1 Million of Kit One Piece at a Time 235
NJ Server Farms Remake the US Financial Markets 216
Replacing Traditional Storage, Databases With In-Memory Analytics 124
Some Hard Drive Nostalgia To Start Off the Year 163