This "revolutionary" 90s storage drive was accidentally named after a massive hardware failure ...

After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.… The 5D Memory Crystal stores data by using tiny voxels – 3D pixels – in fused silica glass, ...

That led Microsoft to declare, “Our results demonstrate that Silica could become the archival storage solution for the digital age.” That may be overselling it just a bit. The Square Kilometer Array ...

We know that while the cost per byte of persistent storage has dropped hugely over the years, it’s still a pain to fork out for a new disk drive. This must be why [MadAvidCoder] has taken a different ...

The first storage media — paper tape and punched cards — were inefficient, slow and bulky. These gave way to magnetic storage: core memory, drums and, finally, hard drives. For backup, there were ...

Forward-looking: As the world faces a data tsunami, with most information destined for long-term storage, one technology could offer a sustainable, low-maintenance alternative. Whether Cerabyte can ...

Magnetic tape storage has a long history as a storage medium, being the primary way to store computer data from the 1960s to the 1980s. More recently, tape has been most closely associated with backup ...