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Nintendo Switch 2 microSD Express card deals 2025
By Stewart Bendle last updated
Where to buy the latest microSD Express cards for the Nintendo Switch 2.

South Korean government learns the importance of backups the hard way after catastrophic fire — 858 terabytes of data goes up in magic smoke
By Bruno Ferreira published
858 TB of South Korean government data goes up in smoke, with no backups

AI data centers are swallowing the world's memory and storage supply, setting the stage for a pricing apocalypse that could last a decade
By Luke James published
Premium Once-cheap SSDs, DRAM, and HDD prices are climbing fast as AI demand and constrained supply converge to create the tightest market in years.

Phison CEO claims NAND shortage could last a staggering 10 years
By Sunny Grimm published
AI profits are changing the landscape of storage and memory, perhaps fundamentally

IBM announced the world’s first HDD, the 3.75MB RAMAC 350 disk storage unit, 69 years ago today
By Mark Tyson published
This massive stacked magnetic disk design earned the nickname the ‘baloney slicer.’

Star Wars Outlaws developer explains that Nintendo Switch 2 game cards are too slow for a physical game release
By Mark Tyson published
Ubisoft wasn’t being ‘cheap’ by opting to deliver Star Wars Outlaws for Nintendo Switch 2 via Game-Key Card, according to a developer who worked on the title.

New report blames Phison's pre-release firmware for SSD failures — not Microsoft’s August patch for Windows
By Kunal Khullar published
The curious case of failing SSDs, following Microsoft’s August security patch for Windows, has once again taken an unexpected turn.

Remaking a Commodore 64 Datasette from 1982 using 1993 microcassette tech
By Mark Tyson published
Recreating the Commodore 64's famous 1982 datasette using 1993 tech and 2025 know-how

UltraRAM with DRAM-like speeds, 4,000x the durability of NAND, and data retention for up to a thousand years, is now ready for manufacturing
By Mark Tyson published
Efforts to commercialize UltraRAM have made a significant stride forward with the development of a scalable new industrial process.
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