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Thanks To HTML5, This Website Can Fill Your Whole Hard Drive With Trash
Sometimes a browser needs to leave a little data on your computer, just a little 5-10KB nibblit, a cookie. HTML5 is a hungrier beast than that which came before it though, and sometimes wants a little more. Maybe 5MB or so. But that’s where it should end. Thanks to a little HTML5 vulnerability, however, this site can and will fill your entire hard drive with trash.
LaCie’s 4TB Blade Runner Hard Drive Looks Like A Renaissance Sculpture
LaCie’s always had a certain flair for external hard drive design, bringing as much style to its hardware as functionality. But the company appears to have just one-upped its past efforts with the stunning Blade Runner that packs four terabytes of storage into an enclosure that looks like it was sculpted by a renaissance master.
LaCie’s 5big Thunderbolt RAID Puts 20 Terabytes On Your Desk
Last year LaCie showed up to the Thunderbolt party with its 2big RAIDs that promised capacities of up to eight terabytes. A number we all foolishly oohed and awed at not realising how pitiful it would sound compared to the company’s new 5big RAID that tops out at 20 terabytes and speeds of up to 785MB/s.
Monster Machines: The Most Expensive Hard Drive Ever
Twenty-two gigabytes seems like a paltry amount of storage by today’s standards, but in the early days of networked computing — when most storage capacities were measured in a lower order of magnitude — IBM’s ultimate DASD offered an unheard of amount of space.
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