Movies and music are often the biggest memory hogs on your iOS device. But since the iPhone and iPad are such good devices for watching movies and listening to music, deciding what to leave behind can be a struggle. And while expandable storage isn’t...
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Microsoft experiments with DNA storage: 1,000,000,000 TB in a gram
Microsoft is buying ten million strands of DNA from biology startup Twist Bioscience to investigate the use of genetic material to store data.
The data density of DNA is orders of magnitude higher than conventional storage systems, with 1 gram of DNA able to represent close to 1 billion terabytes (1 zettabyte) of data. DNA is also remarkably robust; DNA fragments thousands of years old...
4U Storage Pods offer 240TB of storage for 3.6¢/GB
That's a lot of hard disks. (credit: Backblaze)
For the last few years, we've looked at the hard disk reliability numbers from cloud backup and storage company Backblaze, but we've not looked at the systems it builds to hold its tens of thousands of hard disks. In common with some other cloud companies, Backblaze publishes the specs and designs...
Amazon’s $50 Fire tablet gets more storage and new colors
Amazon’s budget friendly Fire tablet may not be the most powerful option, but you can probably find a use for it somewhere in your life. Now, Amazon is making the $ 49.99 Fire tablet even easier to fit into your life by offering it in three...
OWC’s Aura SSDs are a good way to add storage to newer MacBooks, with caveats
Box to enable regional enterprise storage via Amazon Web Services, IBM Cloud
Box wants enterprise users to make better use of the cloud, but regulations and security concerns make it hard for companies outside the U.S. to take advantage of its cloud storage software in many day-to-day operations.
Today, the cloud storage provider unveiled Box Zones, which leverages...
Microsoft to give back some of the free OneDrive storage it’s taking away
Microsoft will be giving back some, but not all, of the OneDrive storage that it was planning to take away from users of its cloud storage service.
In early November, the company made a surprising announcement to OneDrive users in two parts. First, the unlimited storage that came with Office 365 subscriptions was being cut back to 1TB. Second, the free storage tier was cut...
Microsoft reinstates free 15GB OneDrive storage, unlimited Office storage still going extinct
Last month, Microsoft came under fire for cutting back its free storage tiers for OneDrive and Office 365 users, seemingly because they were actually using them to store stuff. Now, Microsoft is grandfathering in OneDrive users who signed up for the service with a promised 15GB free storage,...
GeekWire Deals: Add up to 512GB of storage to your MacBook with this ingenious little dongle
With the price of external hard drives so low, you might be tempted to skimp on storage when buying a new computer. But you may start to regret that choice nine months in, when you’re sick of carrying a bulky hard drive around everywhere you go....
GeekWire Deals: Put your files on ice with this lifetime subscription to Zoolz Cold Storage
It’s good to back up your data, but most files on your computer aren’t necessarily always needed. A copy of your taxes from 2004, your collection of high school papers and the source code for that game you were designing for Windows 95 probably don’t need to be sitting on your hard drive any more. But who knows when...
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