Hard disk drives sure have come a long way, baby. In the 1950s, storage hardware was measured in feet — and in tons. Back then, the era’s state-of-the-art computer drive was found in IBM’s RAMAC 305; ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many ...

Optical storage did evolve-from the early monsters like the 55-pound bruiser mentioned in this story-to magneto optical drives, compact disc drives, writable CDs, rewritable CDs and now DVDs. And some ...

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 ...

When the Voyager spacecrafts launched in 1977, ready to study the outer limits of our solar system, they brought with them two golden phonograph records that each contained an assemblage of sounds and ...

In a bid to create smaller, more powerful computers and smartphones, researchers at New York University have come up with a new digital data storage technique they've dubbed "racetrack memory." There ...

With agentic artificial intelligence (AI), we could be facing the biggest tech refresh event in history, where every organisation might deploy up to 2,000 agents per employee. And to meet that need, ...