Data Storage Stories for 2012

Ask Slashdot: Easiest Way To Consolidate Household Media? 272
Internet Archive Needs Donations, Has Matching Donor 58
Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives? 348
SSD Prices Continue 3-Year Plunge 347
Austrian Blank Media Tax May Expand To Include Cloud Storage 129
OCZ Launches Vector Indilinx Barefoot 3 SSD, First All In-House Design 122
How Data Center Operator IPR Survived Sandy 50
Ask Slashdot: Data Storage Highway Robbery? 168
Red Hat Developer Demands Competitor's Source Code 394
A Year After Thailand Flooding, Hard Drive Prices Remain High 214
Facebook's Corona: When Hadoop MapReduce Wasn't Enough 42
Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook? 358
Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet 471
Intel DC S3700 SSD Features New Proprietary Controller 54
Con Ed Says NYC Datacenters Should Get Power Saturday 107
Intel 335 Series SSD Equipped With 20-nm NAND 135
Open Compute Hardware Adapted For Colo Centers 21
EXT4 Data Corruption Bug Hits Linux Kernel 249
How Google Cools Its 1 Million Servers 87
Ask Slashdot: How Do SSDs Die? 510
Reiser4 File System Still In Development 317
Is a Wireless Data Center Possible? 172
S. Carolina Supreme Court: Leaving Email In the Cloud Isn't Electronic Storage 112
Canadian Spying Case Proves Floppy Drive Isn't Dead Yet 148
How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco 273
Most SSDs Now Under a Dollar Per Gigabyte 187
Samsung Creates New File System F2Fs For Linux & Android 140
Gold Artifact To Orbit Earth In Hope of Alien Retrieval 282
Hitachi Creates Quartz Glass Archival Medium 116
Are SSDs Finally Worth the Money? 405
WD Builds High-Capacity, Helium-Filled HDDs 356
The Lies Disks and Their Drivers Tell 192
Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files? 440
Ask Slashdot: What Should a Unix Fan Look For In a Windows Expert? 454
The History of the Floppy Disk 204
Ask Slashdot: Best *nix Distro For a Dynamic File Server? 234
Baserock Slab Server Pairs High-Density ARM Chips With Linux 51
Ask Slashdot: Recording Business Meeting Audio On an Intranet? 85
Amazon Wants To Replace Tape With Slow But Cheap Off-Site "Glacier" Storage 187
DEA Lack of Data Storage Results In Dismissed Drug Case 242
Scientists Store Entire Textbook In DNA 160
Ask Slashdot: Protecting Data From a Carrington Event? 386
Microsoft Revamping SkyDrive 82
IBM Claims Spintronics Memory Breakthrough 77
Ask Slashdot: Personal Tape Drive NAS? 268
How Big Data Became So Big 105
Ask Slashdot: Best On-Site Backup Plan? 326
Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? 405
Are SSD Accelerators Any Good? 331
Content-Centric Networking & the Next Internet 153
Can a Regular Person Repair a Damaged Hard Drive? 504
Resurrect Your Old Code With a DIY Punch Card Reader 100
Ask Slashdot: Stepping Down From an Office Server To NAS-Only? 227
Ask Slashdot: Storing Items In a Sealed Chest For 25 Years? 434
Asus Delivers Speed Boost With USB Attached SCSI Protocol 93
Apple Expanding NC Green Data Center 34
Ask Slashdot: Building a Personal FOSS Cloud? 189
A Million-Year Hard Disk 394
Linux Played a Vital Role In Discovery of Higgs Boson 299
Seagoing Servers Hit the Rocks 56
New Manufacturing Technology Enables Vertical 3D Transistors 75
SSD Prices Down 46% Since 2011 292
Hybrid Drives Struggling In Face of SSDs 256
NoSQL Document Storage Benefits and Drawbacks 96
Ask Slashdot: Syncing Files With Remote Server While On the Road? 239
Higher Hard Drive Prices Are the New Normal 268
Stanford Bioengineers Create Rewritable Digital Data Storage In DNA 56
60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016 293
Mega-Uploads: The Cloud's Unspoken Hurdle 134
Ask Slashdot: Temporary Backup Pouch? 153
RunCore Introduces Self-Destructable SSD 168
Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model 219
Ask Slashdot: Best Option For Printing Digital Photos? 350
Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tool To Detect Corrupted Files? 247
Diamonds Used To Increase Density, Performance of Phase-Change Memory 115
Researchers Push Implanted User Interfaces 84
Ask Slashdot: DIY NAS For a Variety of Legacy Drives? 260
Google Set To Meld Google Drive With Chrome OS 109
Google Drive Goes Live 323
Google Drive Launching Next Week With 5GB Free Space 265
30 Blu-ray Discs In a 1.5TB MiniDisc-Like Cassette 247
Judge: Megaupload, Host, DOJ Must Work Out Server Maintenance 72
Portugal Is Considering a "Terabyte Tax" 353
Data Safety In a Time of Natural Disasters 86
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Test Storage Media? 297
Nano-SIM Decision Delayed 117
Ask Slashdot: It's World Backup Day; How Do You Back Up? 304
Obama Administration Places $200 Million Bet On Big Data 72
After 60 Years, Tape Reinserts Itself 312
The Fall of Data Haven Sealand 210
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Manage Your Personal Data? 414
Seagate Hits 1 Terabit Per Square Inch 224
Western Digital's Hitachi Storage Takeover Approved With Restrictions 156
Hard Drive Shortage Relief Coming In Q1 2012 205
Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? 164
Why Corporate Cloud Storage Doesn't Add Up 141
SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future 292
Ask Slashdot: Dividing Digital Assets In Divorce? 458
Ask Slashdot: How To Deal With Refurbed Drives With Customer Data? 385
Google Close To Launching Cloud Storage 'Google Drive' 205
New Technique Promises Much Faster Hard Drive Write Speeds 148
HDD Price Update: How the Thai Floods Have Affected Prices, 3 Months Later 220
New Intel 520 Series SSD Taps SandForce Controller 72
What's the Damage? Measuring fsck Under XFS and Ext4 On Big Storage 196
Megaupload Lawyer Says User Data Will Be Held For Two Weeks 94
Megaupload User Data Could Be Destroyed Soon 260
Carl Malamud Answers: Goading the Government To Make Public Data Public 21
Megaupload Shutdown: Should RapidShare and Dropbox Worry? 428
What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? 592
Dropbox Founder Wants To Build the Next Google 165
IBM Shrinks Bit Size To 12 Atoms 135
Victorinox Makes 1TB Swiss Army Knife 143
Salmon DNA Used In Data Storage Device 51
Employee-Owned Devices Muddy Data Privacy Rights 165
NetApp, Lenovo Raise Prices, Citing Thailand Flooding Effects 96
Feds Now Plans To Close 1,200 Data Centers 148
Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication Software? 306
China's Green Data Center Plans 45