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MacBook Neo costs more in Portugal due to copyright levy for piracy compensation taxes
Macbook Neo Portuguese copyright levy fee highlights draconian piracy compensation laws
City has roads named Tape Drive and Disk Drive from bygone HDD-making era
Tape Drive and Disk Drive rods in the Louisville/Broomfield area are a relic of the STK diskmaker's time in the city.
Enthusiast reverse engineers world’s smallest HDD to access data with help from an old Nokia N91 and OpenClaw
Maker Will Whang designed the MK4001MTD USB Bridge to facilitate the use of the world’s smallest (0.85-inch) mechanical hard drives, originally released by Toshiba in 2004.
Six-month rewritable DVD endurance test crowns winner with 1,000 rewrites, shows the best discs are no longer manufactured
A tech enthusiast has shared their DVD rewritable durability findings, following six months of testing.
How to protect yourself from bad external SSDs during the PC hardware apocalypse
Premium If you’re shopping for a new external SSD, you might want to buy a drive soon, and something that was released before the AI demand seemingly gobbled up all the good flash.
Chinese SSD maker YMTC lists its first commercial PCIe 5.0 SSD as worldwide shortage intensifies
The newly listed PC550 SSD targets AI PCs and commercial systems and features PCIe 5.0 x4 connectivity, NVMe 2.0 support, and a four-channel design.
Japanese firm stops production of Blu-ray disc drives
Further signs that the Blu-ray tide is going out, never to return, come from Japanese peripherals maker Buffalo.
55 years ago, the first computer search warrant was issued
In February 1971, an order authorized Oakland Police to enter offices in Palo Alto and homes in Menlo Park to look not just for papers but also for data stored on machines.
