Lasers, Magnets and the $40 Billion Fight to Store the World’s Data
Makers of hard disk drives, under growing pressure from faster rivals, hope a breakthrough will keep it the dominant ...
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Scientists discover a giant spiral galaxy in the early universe
Astronomers have made an exciting discovery—a massive spiral disk galaxy, much larger than expected, in the early universe.
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Quantum-inspired storage can store 100s of terabytes of data on a tiny crystal — with plans to make them into much larger discs
Scientists have found a way to store hundreds of terabytes of data onto a tiny crystal, with plans to scale this up to a disc ...
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US firm Western Digital’s new Singapore CEO sees AI driving a ‘massive opportunity’ for hard-disk drives
US data storage giant Western Digital completed the planned separation of its flash business on Feb 21 this year, leaving it ...
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A brief explanation why
Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...