Why the famous 'square hole' hack was a ticking time bomb ...

Designed for heavy use in dash cams, body cams, and home security cameras, these cards exceeded my wildest expectations.

Seagate introduced the Mozaic 3+ platform in 2024, turning the heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) dream into a real product for customers in need of massive storage ...

When a hard drive begins to fail, it rarely does so silently. Instead, it generates system alerts, often in the form of cryptic error codes during boot, file access, or diagnostics. According to ...

You'll (probably) never reach the write limits on your SSD ...

As well as the notches, it was possible to take a disk and use a hole punch to create a "flippy disk," in which a user flipped the disk to use the other side (e.g. on a Texas Instruments 99/4A). It ...

A rare piece of gaming history arrives in ruins, and now collectors wonder if it’s even safe to ship anything valuable ...

DIY enthusiasts are building wobble disk coffee roasters from simple parts, led by inventor Larry Cotton and shared online.

SanDisk has refreshed its core range of portable SSDs. The new line-up is split into three tiers - Extreme Pro Portable, ...

If you want a large amount of portable storage capacity for the minimum possible price, the Toshiba Canvio Flex is a solid option. Performance, though considerably slower than an SSD, is actually ...

The cache at the disk, as anywhere else in the system, is an important resource that aids performance enhancement in the IO path. While evaluation of disk cache effectiveness is outside the scope of ...