Data storage - News, Features, and Slideshows

• ABC grapples with explosion in storage demands

  ​The Australian Broadcasting Corporation predicts it will need more than 20 Petabytes of storage capacity by 2021.

• Microsoft is making Big Data really small using DNA

  Microsoft has partnered with a San Francisco-based company to encode information on synthetic DNA to test its potential as a new medium for data storage.

• Samsung releases world's first 2TB consumer SSDs

  Samsung today announced what it is calling the first multi-terabyte consumer solid-state drive (SSD), which will offer 2TB of capacity in a 2.5-in. form factor for laptops and desktops.

• More than 28 billion gigabytes of storage shipped last quarter

  Worldwide data storage hardware sales saw a boon in the first quarter of this year, with a 41.4% leap over the same quarter in 2014.

• The rise of SSDs over hard drives, debunked

  In spite of a recent report to the contrary, solid-state drives (SSDs) will not surpass hard disk drives (HDDs) in either price or capacity any time soon, according to industry analysts.

• Read this before you buy another hard drive

  It's rare that a company would release internal data on drive failure rates -- even more so when that company, Backblaze, earns its living storing consumer data in the cloud. That makes the hard drive data released this week even more valuable.

• RAM wars: RRAM vs. 3D NAND flash, and the winner is... us

  While resistive RAM's chances of crowding out NAND flash anytime soon are slim, the coming RAM wars mean mobile users are likely to have hundreds of gigabytes, or even a terabyte, of storage at their fingertips.

• Tablet storage: Do you really need an expansion slot?

  Some popular new tablets come equipped with storage expansion slots; others do not. Which is better?

• Tornadoes and data centers are OK in Oklahoma

  If the question about tornadoes comes up at his Oklahoma City data center, as it sometimes does, Todd Currie, vice president of operations and general manager at Perimeter Technology, has answers. He even has cutout sample of his roof to show how it is built.

• New storage technologies to deal with the data deluge

  Enterprise storage demands are reaching a critical point, and vendors are scrambling to develop new products to deal with the data deluge. We look at how these technologies will help manage the major pain points for storage administrators.

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