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New study finds HGST, WD hard drives fail less often than Seagate and Toshiba (techspot.com)

2026-08-16 | by Skye Jacobs | tags: hgst, western digital, seagate

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Peer-reviewed study of 443,000 Backblaze hard drives ranks HGST most reliable and Toshiba the least — Analysis of 1.66 million drive-years finds Seagate and Toshiba HDDs fail at roughly twice the rate of WD and HGST (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-15 | by Luke James | tags: backblaze, hgst, toshiba

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$29 per Terabyte makes this 24TB Seagate BarraCuda one of the best-value hard drives in today's market — $50 off at Newegg makes it $200 cheaper than the 20TB version (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-14 | by Stewart Bendle | tags: seagate, barracuda, newegg

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The current state of PCIe 6.0 SSDs and controllers — Marvell, Phison, and SMI prepare controllers as drives finally come to market following years of delays (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-13 | by Anton Shilov | tags: pcie 6.0, micron, samsung

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Save $106 on this 4TB Team Group SSD with Gen 4 speeds, now 10.2 cents per GB — Newegg coupon deal makes this T-Force G50 one of the cheapest PCIe 4.0 drives on sale right now with this amount of storage (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-12 | by Ben Stockton | tags: team group, t-force g50, pcie 4.0

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Species intraspecific variation drives tropical forest drought resistance (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-12 | by Smith-Martin | tags: amazon rainforest, el niño drought, hydraulic traits

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I’ve used NAS drives for years. These are the top 5 brands in 2026 (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: synology, nas drives, android authority

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Before you throw out your old USB drives, do this first (engadget.com)

2026-08-10 | by Adnan Ahmed | tags: usb drives, data recovery, memory prices

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Are USB flash drives becoming obsolete? (engadget.com)

2026-08-07 | by Max Miller | tags: drive, drives, flash

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Sandisk Optimus GX 7100M 2TB SSD review: The best 2230 drive you can buy for the Steam Deck (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-06 | by Shane Downing | tags: black, dram, drive

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Why your Windows installation files keep getting bigger - AI is filling up smaller drives (zdnet.com)

2026-08-01 | by Ed Bott | tags: windows, microsoft, copilot

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Apple Expects Slower Growth After AI Boom Drives Up Costs (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-30 | tags: apple, siri, component costs

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Seagate aims to launch 50TB HAMR hard drives in 2027 (techspot.com)

2026-07-30 | by Alfonso Maruccia | tags: seagate, hamr, mozaic

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Will We Ever Solve the Problem of Losing Data? (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-30 | tags: data storage, data loss, cloud computing

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Seagate to start qualifying record-setting 50TB HDDs in 2027 — most drives are sold out through 2028 (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-29 | by Anton Shilov | tags: seagate, hamr, mozaic 5

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Testing old drives as external storage to avoid price hikes — hard drive, SATA SSD, and NVMe in enclosures up to 80 Gbps, tested (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-28 | by Matt Safford | tags: hard drive, sata ssd, nvme

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AI Agent Drives Espionage Attack on Thai Ministry of Finance (darkreading.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: ai agent, hermes, thai ministry of finance

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Why creative leadership drives business growth (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-23 | tags: ndidi oteh, creative leadership, business growth

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Google’s Red-Hot Cloud Growth Drives Second-Quarter Revenue Gains (feeds.content.dowjones.io)

2026-07-22 | tags: google, cloud, revenue

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2026 Toyota RAV4 plug-in: Big battery means daily drives are all-electric (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-16 | tags: toyota rav4, plug-in hybrid, atkinson cycle

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Purging George Orwell's books misses what drives the political right (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-15 | by Sisa San Sebastián Hurtig | tags: class, contemporary, moral

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PC gamer turns Steam games into cartridges with ingenious 2.5-inch SSD system — games are stored on 128GB drives alongside a script to auto-start the title once plugged in (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-15 | by Mark Tyson | tags: game, games, hardware

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Boutique DIY Hi-Fi solution lets you repurpose your old IDE optical drives as a standalone audio player — $190 CD-ROM Player 01 features a laser-cut enclosure and a custom PCB (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-14 | by Mark Tyson | tags: cd rom, drives, optical

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Best External Hard Drives (2026): SSD to Store Data, Video, and More (wired.com)

2026-07-12 | by Scott Gilbertson | tags: backups, best, drive

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Redditor buys suspicious drives on eBay just to report the scamming sellers if they get a fake SSD or HDD — latest '16TB' find has weights and microSD card hot-glued inside the enclosure to make it feel legit (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-09 | by Jowi Morales | tags: account, drive, ebay

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Japanese firm reverses Blu-ray drive exit after securing parts, but prices jump up to 51% (techspot.com)

2026-07-09 | by Rob Thubron | tags: blu ray, buffalo, components

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Japanese firm reverses Blu-ray drive exit after securing parts, but prices jump up to 51% and supplies are limited (techspot.com)

2026-07-09 | by Rob Thubron | tags: blu ray, buffalo, components

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World Cup drives Google Search to record queries per second (cnbc.com)

2026-07-09 | by Jennifer Elias | tags: argentina, goal, google

59.

3 Android Auto automations that make my drives much easier - and how I set them up (zdnet.com)

2026-07-08 | by Artie Beaty | get Android Auto Wireless Adapter → | tags: android, android auto, auto

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Copy That Floppy – Cambridge guide for preserving data from fragile floppy disks (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-08 | by Various Contributors | get Floppy Disk Data Preservation Kit → | tags: disk, disks, drive