Modern solid-state drives are fast, silent, shock-resistant, and can be used with any computer, from laptops to enterprise servers. Unlike hard drives with spinning platters, SSDs use flash memory to ...

For roughly a decade, Microsoft has been perfecting a high-density storage technology that uses glass, lasers, and cameras, and ensures it stays intact for millennia. That's a huge improvement over ...

More long-term storage focused are optical storage systems like Blu-ray, which Meta has used in the past for its cold storage. "This effort seems to have been quietly abandoned," the researchers say, ...

The value of digital data of all types has always been important, but with the growth of today’s AI models and the data centers that support them, the need for data has exploded. This is an important ...