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When your hard drive was a cassette deck--the forgotten realities of 8-bit storage ...

Before flash drives and SSDs, storage came in giant cabinets with swappable packs. Here's what was inside, and why it took up so much space.

External hard drives can be moved between systems, reformatted at will, and repurposed without risking the data or stability of a primary computer.

Computer data storage is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media that are used to retain digital data. It is a core function and fundamental component of computers.: 15–16 ...

Seventy years after the invention of a data structure called a hash table, theoreticians have found the most efficient possible configuration for it. About 70 years ago, an engineer at IBM named Hans ...

Cloud storage has visibly come to the fore this year, with hybrid- and multi-cloud storage becoming a viable strategy for organisations. A few key drivers are pushing the trend, and we look at them in ...

In a bid to create smaller, more powerful computers and smartphones, researchers at New York University have come up with a new digital data storage technique they've dubbed "racetrack memory." There ...