Friday, August 26, 2011 - 12:00pm
You might think your 1TB of storage is a ton. And it is! But it's got nothing on what IBM is cooking up: a 120 petabyte storage setup, the largest ever.
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Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 8:16am
Compared to other, more modern storage mediums, optical discs are terrible. They're big, they're fragile, and they're hard to access. You may not agree, and neither does GE: they've just developed a commercial micro-holographic storage technology that can fit 500 gigs on an optical disc.
Friday, June 24, 2011 - 1:47pm
Backing up your data is always a compromise between resiliency and accessibility. LaCie's new CloudBox manages to seamlessly do both, which would be awesome if only it wasn't so ridiculously expensive.
Friday, April 22, 2011 - 12:11pm
There's a physical limit to the number of magnetic bits that you can stuff onto a given area on a traditional hard drive, and we're pretty close to it right now. For hard drives to get bigger without getting, you know, bigger, we're going to have to get creative, and one research team has done this by taking hard drives into the third dimension.
Sunday, December 19, 2010 - 12:55pm
Keeping track of all your different passwords can be quite a task, so this little device gives you a handy place where you can store them all, completely independently from your computer or phone.
Monday, November 29, 2010 - 1:44pm
You probably have about a hundred trillion different microorganisms living in your gut right now, which is ten times the number of cells in your body. These microorganisms help keep you alive, but researchers have figured out how to get them to store your porn collection at the same time.
Thursday, September 9, 2010 - 8:52am
Video game consoles these days sure do end up cluttering your living room up. With four controllers, some fake instruments and any number of other peripherals, it ends up being a huge chore just keeping your space tidy. That's why I like the Level Up tower, which keeps all your gaming detritus nice and organized for you.
Friday, July 16, 2010 - 8:04am
This graph illustrating the price of memory and storage over the last 55 years, done by John C. McCallum over at MIT, has a pretty distinct trend. It makes me want to travel back in time with a handful of flash drives so I could make enough money to retire.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 8:28am
Today Netgear unveils the Stora, a media server that enables simple sharing of photos, videos and music over the Web. It's essentially a Pogoplug clone with a huge hard drive, with a few tricks thrown in like easy sharing on...
Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 1:31pm
We already thought the Eye Fi Wi-Fi SD card was so good it seemed like it was dropped upon us by an advanced alien civilization. Now the company's made it even better, speeding up the new Pro X2 with Wireless...
