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If you’re constantly juggling files to free up space or getting bombarded with “Storage Full” warnings, you know the struggle. Most cloud services will happily offer you more space—for an extra cost. But here’s the thing: those subscription fees never go away. What if you could pay once and never …

Japanese memory manufacturer Kioxia had an intriguing demo on show at Computex this year, in a next-generation “Optical” SSD design. These drives utilize light, rather than electricity, to transfer data between the drive and host system, offering greater signal integrity in the process. That makes it possible to run the …

The Buffalo SSD-PUT is the perfect combination of speed and portability, now available at a Cyber Week discount of 26%, bringing the price down to just $66.99. This external SSD offers 1TB of storage in a thumb-drive-sized form factor that’s both shockproof and durable. Whether you’re a student, professional, or …

Right now the sweet spot for price and performance with SSDs is 1TB, as these drives are fast and affordable. That’s clearly not enough storage for some people though. (Definitely not – Ed) To answer the needs of those with projects as large as their bank accounts, Sabrent has announced …

  Seagate has designed a pair of custom RISC-V cores to be used in future products as next-generation storage controllers. The chips, which are not referred to by any codename or brand, come in two flavors: A high-performance core and an area-optimized core. The high performance core has already been …

  Google announced two changes to its Google Storage and Google Photos policies that will impact how some users interact with these products. First, Google Photo storage will no longer be free after May 31, 2021. Beginning on June 1, all Google Photos that you upload will count against your …

  Last week, we rounded up the best storage mediums of all time. This week, we’re doing the worst. A few notes before we get started: The history of writing and symbolic communication is a fascinating and rich topic — but not a simple one. Different groups of people have developed …

Intel and its 3D XPoint memory have dominated recent headlines on NAND flash alternatives, but they’ve never been the only game in town. Everspin, a company whose technology we’ve covered several times in the past, announced today that they will bring new MRAM-based drives to market with new partners and …

Hard drives and NAND flash memory can store a lot more data than they could just a few years ago, but they’ve still got nothing on DNA. The genetic material in nearly every cell of your body has a vastly higher storage capacity than a hard drive, and it could …

Amazon’s popular Snowball storage container got a major update today at the company’s re:invent conference. Though largely overshadowed by the new batshit crazy AWS Snowmobile, the aforementioned Snowball will be getting a storage increase to 100 terabytes in addition to computing functionality. Users of the new Snowball Edge will be …