Data Storage Stories for 2018

Data-Wiping Malware Destroys Data At Italian and UAE Oil and Gas Companies 39
Why I'm Usually Unnerved When Modern SSDs Die on Us 358
By 2025, Nearly 30 Percent of Data Generated Will Be Real-Time, IDC Says 45
Latest Windows 10 Update Breaks Windows Media Player, Win32 Apps In General 200
Nasty Adobe Bug Deleted $250,000 Worth of Man's Files, Lawsuit Claims 275
Mac Mini Teardown Reveals User-Upgradable RAM, But Soldered Down CPU and Storage 242
Micron Kicks Off Mass Production of 12Gb DRAM Chips 52
An ISP Left Corporate Passwords, Keys, and All Its Data Exposed On the Internet 53
Google News App Bug Is Using Up Gigabytes of Background Data Without Users' Knowledge 110
Buggy Software in Popular Connected Storage Drives Can Let Hackers Read Private Data 44
The Future of the Cloud Depends On Magnetic Tape 164
Apple Launches Portal For US Users To Download Their Data 35
Microsoft Rereleases Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Fixes Data Deletion Bug 79
NASA Switches Curiosity Rover To Backup Computer Following Glitch 78
BitTorrent and Tron Hope Other Clients Will Embrace Blockchain-Powered 'Paid' Seeding 42
Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space 204
Facebook Chooses Singapore For $1 Billion Data Center 72
WhatsApp Warns Free Google Drive Backups Are Not End-To-End Encrypted 38
Analysts Say We Are Headed For a Flash Memory Price Crash 99
The Next Flagship iPhone Will Support Apple Pencil and 512GB Flash Storage, Says Report 93
Watch Fish Swim By Petabytes of Data At Microsoft's Underwater Data Center 97
Dropbox Is Dropping Support For All Linux File Systems Except Unencrypted Ext4 258
Intel Announces the 'World's Densest' SSD 62
Scientists Perfect Technique To Create Most Dense, Solid-State Memory in History that Could Soon Exceed the Capabilities of Current Hard Drives By 1,000 Times 176
Slashdot Asks: Do You Need To Properly Eject a USB Drive Before Yanking it Out? 521
The New MacBook Pro Features 'Fastest SSD Ever' In a Laptop 262
128TB SD Cards Are Coming 175
Dropbox Open Sources DivANS: a Compression Algorithm In Rust Compiled To WASM 33
Tesla Sues Employee Alleged To Have Stolen Gigabytes of Data 153
Inventor Says Google Is Patenting His Public Domain Work 164
Police Departments Are Training Dogs To Sniff Out Thumb Drives 159
Microsoft Sinks Data Centre Off Orkney To Test Energy Efficiency 155
70 Long-Lost Japanese Video Games Discovered In a 67GB Folder of ROMs On a Private Forum 158
Zip Slip Vulnerability Affects Thousands of Projects 127
Scientists Transfer Memory Between Snails 92
Suspect Identified In CIA 'Vault 7' Leak 106
Google Will Make Its Paid Storage Plans Cheaper 69
Police Drop Charges Filed Against 19-Year-Old Archivist For Downloading FOIA Releases 154
Engineers Devise a Technique To Fight Counterfeit or Recycled Smartphone Memory 52
How Reliable Are 10TB and 12TB Hard Drives? Backblaze Publishes Q1 2018 Hard Drive Reliability 123
E-Waste Innovator Will Go To Jail For Making Windows Restore Disks That Only Worked With Valid Licenses 426
Samsung Announces 970 PRO and 970 EVO NVMe SSDs 51
Instagram Launches 'Data Download' Tool To Let You Leave 15
Loud Sound From Fire Alarm System Shuts Down Nasdaq's Scandinavian Data Center 114
19-Year-Old Archivist Charged For Downloading Freedom-of-Information Releases 422
Wind and Solar Can Power Most of the United States, Says Study 417
Sex Workers Say Porn On Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing 356
Dropbox IPOs. Its Founders Are Now Billionaires 69
Power Outage At Samsung's Fab Destroys 3.5 Percent of Global NAND Flash Output 103
Jewelry Site Leaks Personal Details, Plaintext Passwords of 1.3 Million Users 37
Intel Launches Mainstream Optane SSD 800P Series Based On 3D Xpoint Memory 36
Apple Confirms It Uses Google's Cloud For iCloud Services 46
Putting Civilization in a Box For Space Means Choosing Our Legacy 92
Dropbox Shows How It Manages Costs By Deleting Inactive Accounts 29
Dropbox Files To Go Public 41
Scientists Discover a New Way To Use DNA As a Storage Device 68
Samsung Starts Mass Producing an SSD With Monstrous 30.72TB Capacity 158
Should GitHub Allow Username Reuse? 84
Are Music CDs Dying? Best Buy Stops Selling CDs 295
Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017 93
Dropbox Files Confidentially For IPO 20
Apple To Transfer Chinese iCloud Operations To Chinese Firm 72
Western Digital 'My Cloud' Devices Have a Hardcoded Backdoor 160