Before flash drives and SSDs, storage came in giant cabinets with swappable packs. Here's what was inside, and why it took up so much space.

Researchers have made DNA storage rewritable, overcoming one of its biggest limitations. The breakthrough could turn DNA into a practical alternative to today’s energy-hungry data centers.

There's an unconventional, new impact of A.I. data centers that average Americans might take for granted, and tech experts are sounding the alarm.

The IT industry is always striving to overcome bottlenecks, and one of the biggest is input/output (I/O). Whether it is memory bandwidth, network bandwidth or how quickly a high-resolution screen can ...

Why doubling a hard drive's IOPS still can't beat cheap NVMe ...

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; ...

PCIe connectivity has gained an increased profile in enterprise data storage in recent years, in particular with the emergence and takeover of mainstream flash storage by NVMe-based hardware. For ...

Whether you’re working on a laptop or a tablet, a lack of internal storage can literally clog up your day. You can run a disk cleanup to clear up some clutter, but if you’re simply out of precious ...