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Twenty percent of hard drives used for long-term music storage in the 90s have failed
By Jowi Morales published
Iron Mountain says that one-fifth of the storage media it receives from the music industry are bricked.

Lexar rolls out the world’s first stainless steel SD cards to join its Armor storage family
By Mark Tyson published
In addition to being resistant to bending they are IP68 certified.

The 1TB Samsung 990 EVO SSD is now only $69 at Amazon
By Ash Hill published
Today at Amazon, you can find the Samsung 990 EVO 1TB SSD for its lowest price to date—just $69 down from its usual price of $149.

WD to appeal $262M hard drive patent infringement damages awarded to German scientist
By Mark Tyson published
WD infringed on IP to boost HDD areal density more than threefold, it was claimed.

Micron announces industry first PCIe Gen6 SSD, claims 26GB/s transfer speed
By Mark Tyson published
Drive to be showcased at FMS 2024 this week.

Cerabyte brings archival glass storage with 5,000 year durability to the U.S.
By Jeff Butts published
German archival glass storage specialist Cerabyte announced on July 15 that it is bringing its technology to the U.S.

Tiny $10 Raspberry Pi 5 PCie board brings low-cost, high-speed storage – the end of micro SD is nigh
By Les Pounder published
Pineboard's latest PCie based product shrinks what you need for M.2 storage and AI add-on boards into $10 package.

Japanese gov celebrates demise of the floppy disk
By Mark Tyson published
Japan’s Digital Minister, Taro Kono, is celebrating the demise of the floppy disk. 'We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28,' Kono told Reuters news agency earlier today.

Tape shipments increased to 152.9 exabytes in 2023 despite it being labeled as a 'dead' storage medium
By Jeff Butts published
Thanks in part to the storage needs of AI developers, digital tape storage rose to an all-time high in 2023 despite being considered obsolete by many.

Pure Storage exec teases 150TB SSD modules — volume shipments of 75TB SSD modules have only just begun
By Mark Tyson published
All-flash data storage solutions provider Pure Storage has some new 150TB SSD modules in testing. These have been revealed in a teaser timed to coincide with volume shipments of 75TB modules.
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