Data Storage Stories for 2022

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