computer data storage
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The First 1.5TB microSD Card Is Coming to Destroy Your Budget
But Micron hasn’t yet shared when the memory cards will be available or how expensive they’ll be.
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Western Digital Just Lost 6.5 Billion GB of Flash Storage, and You Could Pay the Price
Supply shortages and the resulting price increases could soon get much worse after contamination at Western Digital’s NAND production facilities sent millions of terabytes of flash storage down the drain.
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Researchers Think They Figured Out How to Squeeze 500TB on a DVD-Sized Disk
By switching from red lasers to blue lasers with a finer beam, the storage capacity of DVDs went from 4.7GB to 25GB to allow Blu-ray discs to hold movies encoded in HD resolutions and beyond. Last week, researchers from the University of Southampton in the UK revealed the next big breakthrough in disc storage capacities,…
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Are We Ever Going to Run Out of Digital Storage Space?
We live in a world of refuse — not simply the orange peels, Amazon boxes, and old TVs rotting away in landfills but also the texts, emails, and torrented movies looked at once and left to languish in the cloud. We appear to be verging on a crisis point with the first kind of trash,…