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Backblaze has published a report on hard drive failures for 2023, finding that rates increased during the year due to aging drives that it plans to upgrade. From a report: Backblaze, which focuses on cloud-based storage services, claims to have more th… Continue reading Backblaze’s Geriatric Hard Drives Kicked the Bucket More in 2023
Since 2006 Baldrson (Slashdot reader #78,598) has been part of the team verifying “The Hutter Prize for Lossless Compression of Human Knowledge,” an ongoing challenge to compress a 100-MB excerpt of Wikipedia (approximately the amount a human can read … Continue reading New Hutter Prize Awarded for Even Smaller Data Compression Milestone
Australian AI-powered lakehouse Zetaris launched in 2013 to solve the ‘impossible’ problem of centralising enterprise data. CEO Vinay Samuel says data virtualisation is now even more critical. Continue reading Zetaris: Federated Data Lakes Could Make Sense of Enterprise Data ‘Mess’ to Power AI
A new report from German data recovery company CBL found that devices using NAND chips from reputable brands are declining in quality, with reduced capacity and their manufacturers’ logo removed. Furthermore, some USB sticks use the old trick of soldie… Continue reading Report Reveals Decline In Quality of USB Sticks, MicroSD Cards
Linus Torvalds had “some robust exchanges” on the Linux kernel mailing list with a contributor from Google. The subject was inodes, notes the Register, “which as Red Hat puts it are each ‘a unique identifier for a specific piece of metadata on a given … Continue reading Linus Torvalds Has ‘Robust Exchanges’ Over Filesystem Suggestion on Linux Kernel Mailing List
During Alphabet’s Q4 2023 earnings call, Sundar Pichai announced that Google One is about to cross 100 million subscribers. From a report: The CEO said Google One is “doing incredibly well with strong user growth.” Pichai highlighted how it “provides e… Continue reading Google One is About To Hit 100 Million Subscribers
Japan is aiming to phase out floppy disks and CD-ROMs, which until now were forms of physical media required for submitting some official documents to the government. Engadget reports: Back in 2022, Minister of Digital Affairs Taro Kono urged various b… Continue reading Japan Will No Longer Require Floppy Disks For Submitting Some Official Documents
Seagate this week unveiled the industry’s first hard disk drive platform that uses heat-assisted media recording (HAMR). Tom’s Hardware: The new Mozaic 3+ platform relies on several all-new technologies, including new media, new write and read heads, a… Continue reading 30TB Hard Drives Are Nearly Here
Protect your business from both tech and human error with EaseUS Data Recovery Wizard, now just $46 for life for a limited time this January. Continue reading This Top-Rated Data Recovery Tool is More Than $100 Off Now
smooth wombat writes: The advent of streaming services heralded a new era of movie watching. No longer tied to an inconvenient time at a theater, movies could now be watched at your convenience any time of the day or night in your own home. However, wi… Continue reading DVD Resurgence To Prevent Films From Disappearing