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The Floppy Disk patent was granted today in 1972
The patent application for the floppy disk was granted to two IBM engineers on this day in 1972.
Huawei develops 122TB SSD with new packaging tech to sidestep US sanctions on 3D NAND chips
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Laser-driven spintronic memory device switches 1,000 times faster than DRAM
Device achieves picosecond-scale speeds without heat.
Fans secretly mapped 24 terabytes of Minecraft’s infamous 2b2t server, million‑square‑block archive to be shared via torrent
A digital gaming archaeology project has archived 24TB of data, preserving a million squared block of Minecraft’s infamous 2b2t server.
SSD prices skyrocket by 300% in Japan, bringing 8TB Samsung 9100 drive to an eye-watering $3,500
Samsung SSDs saw massive price hikes across multiple Japanese PC retailers, with prices going up to $3,500 for 8TB drives.
Best Nintendo Switch 2 microSD Express card deals 2026 — Samsung, SanDisk, Lexar, Adata, and more
Grab one of these brand-new microSD Express cards for the Nintendo Switch 2. We're constantly updating this list with the best deals across all retailers throughout the year.
Backblaze silently redefines 'unlimited' backups and users discover it's not backing up Dropbox and OneDrive
Backblaze redefines "unlimited" while users discover it's not backing up Dropbox, OneDrive, et al
30 years of Lexar: What a look inside its R&D labs and factory reveals about its plans for an AI-ready future
Lexar toured us around its R&D labs and production facilities to see how it's building storage solutions for today and tomorrow.
