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A tiny 0.5MB SmartMedia card wins the Small Capacity Memory Card Championship (Japan)

By Mark Tyson Published

The Small Capacity Memory Card Championship (Japan) has been a tightly run race, but the results are now in.

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Tape keeps kicking, 'breakthrough' 40TB native spec announced

By Mark Tyson Published

LTO-10 40TB carts were enabled by new 'Aramid' material technology.

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Japanese PC shops limit SSD, HDD, and RAM purchases to prevent hoarding as storage and memory shortage takes hold

By Jowi Morales Last updated

The impact of the massive AI demand for storage and memory is now hitting retail stores in Japan.

PC Components
Dave Plummer's DEC RA82 disc drive connected to a DEC PDP-11/73
Legendary Windows Pinball developer rescues 200lb magnetic disc drive from the 1980s

By Ben Stockton Published

Ex-Windows developer Dave Plummer rescues a nearly 200 lb magnetic disc drive with just 622 MB of storage from the 1980s

Tech Industry
Western Digital Black SN8100 PCIe 5.0 SSD gets an 8TB capacity boost

By Bruno Ferreira Last updated

The Western Digital Black SN8100 is already one of the fastest SSDs on the planet, and it now comes in an 8TB version to satisfy even the most storage-hungry enthusiast.

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Empty warehouse shelves
Adata chairman says AI datacenters are gobbling up hard drives, SSDs, and DRAM alike

By Bruno Ferreira Published

Adata chairman says AI datacenters are gobbling up all memory and storage.

Big Tech
Hard drive on fire
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

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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.

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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

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IBM RAMAC computer and magnetic disk-based storage
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.’

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