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Another major Japanese electronics firm exits the Blu-ray market — Elecom publishes notice of termination of all external drives (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-21 | by Mark Tyson | get External Blu-ray Drive → | tags: elecom, blu-ray drives, logitec

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Startup proposes USB drives as a modern replacement for DVDs and Blu-rays (techspot.com)

2026-03-17 | get USB Flash Drive → | tags: video storeage, usb drives, blu-rays

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The best external hard drives of 2026: Expert tested (zdnet.com)

2026-03-15 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Samsung T7 Portable SSD → | tags: lexar, external hard drives, lexar es5

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Flash media longevity testing – 6 years later (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-08 | get Flash → | tags: kingston, flash drives, rust

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ATAboy is a USB adapter for legacy CHS only style IDE (PATA) drives (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-21 | get IDE → | tags: ataboy, ide drives, pata hard drives

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AI Data Centers Are Now Spiking Hard Drive Prices (futurism.com)

2026-02-17 | by Victor Tangermann | get Hard Drives → | tags: cloud, drives, hard

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SATA SSD cheated death from failed attempt at data destruction with a drill — drive emerges victorious in face-off against IT worker (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-17 | by Zhiye Liu | tags: drilling, drive, drives

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Seagate's enormous 20TB IronWolf HDDs are just $419, or $21 per-terabyte — large-capacity storage deal from Newegg is perfect for your NAS (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-16 | by Stewart Bendle | get IronWolf → | tags: best, deals, drives

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Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-16 | by Jowi Morales | get Hard drive → | tags: drives, hard, hard drives

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Cloud storage company releases its 2025 hard drive reliability report — overall Annualized Failure Rate drops to 1.36%, 21 percentage points lower than last year (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-15 | by Jowi Morales | get Hard Drive → | tags: backblaze, drive, drives

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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-14 | by Drive Stats Team | get I cannot provide information on products or technologies from a → | tags: drive, drive stats, drives

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Show HN: Agent Alcove – Claude, GPT, and Gemini debate across forums (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-11 | get GPT → | tags: agreed, agreed think, boredom

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I tested Raspberry Pi's new USB flash drive, and it has one key advantage over competitors (zdnet.com)

2026-02-06 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get USB Flash Drive → | tags: drive, drives, flash

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Lucky scavenger finds $1,300 worth of SSDs for just $210 in Walmart's clearance aisle — haul includes two 2TB WD SN770, a 2TB Samsung T5 Evo, and a 1 TB PNY CS2241 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-06 | by Hassam Nasir | get SSD → | tags: clearance, drives, just

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PNY CS2342 2TB SSD Review: High-Capacity TLC Performance In M.2 2230 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-06 | by Shane Downing | get SSD → | tags: drive, drives, flash

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Western Digital details 14-platter 3.5-inch HAMR HDD designs with 140 TB and beyond (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-05 | by Anton Shilov | get Western Digital Hard Disk Drive → | tags: digital, drives, hamr

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New website helps you find the cheapest storage by cost per gigabyte (techspot.com)

2026-02-05 | get Cloud Storage → | tags: actual, actual storage, bulk

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I tested Raspberry Pi's new USB flash drive - and it has a critical advantage over competitors (zdnet.com)

2026-02-03 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get USB Flash Drive → | tags: drive, drives, flash

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Western Digital unveils massive 40TB HDD with energy-assisted recording tech — plans 100TB HAMR hard drives by 2029 (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-03 | by Anton Shilov | get Hard Disk Drive → | tags: digital, drives, epmr

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The 30-Year Nostalgia Cycle Has Me Actually Excited for a PC With Fake Floppy Drives (gizmodo.com)

2026-01-29 | get Floppy Disk Drive → | tags: desktop, desperately, desperately wondering

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How heavy was the first ever 1 GB hard drive? (techspot.com)

2026-01-29 | get Hard Drive → | tags: bfg read, drives, drives handles

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Microsoft Gave FBI a Set of BitLocker Encryption Keys To Unlock Suspects' Laptops (slashdot.org)

2026-01-23 | get BitLocker → | tags: bitlocker, case, drives

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Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-01-23 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get BitLocker → | tags: access, bitlocker, drives

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Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: Reports (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-23 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get BitLocker → | tags: access, bitlocker, drives

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Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: reports (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-23 | by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | get BitLocker → | tags: access, bitlocker, drives

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Kioxia exec says the AI boom means the era of the cheap 1TB SSD is over —company's NAND supply is sold out for this year and likely through 2027 (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-21 | by Zhiye Liu | get NAND → | tags: drives, kioxia, nakato

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

2026-01-17 | by Scott Gilbertson | get External Hard Drive → | tags: best, drive, drives

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Hard Drive Prices Have Surged By an Average of 46% Since September (slashdot.org)

2026-01-16 | by Posted | get Hard Drive → | tags: average price, capacity, checks

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Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-16 | by Stephen Warwick | get Seagate BarraCuda → | tags: capacity, drives, increases

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Many high-capacity NVMe SSDs are now as expensive as gold by weight as shortage intensifies — we ran the numbers, here's what we found (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-16 | by Bruno Ferreira | get NVMe → | tags: best, drives, models