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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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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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How to Get Rid of Old Tech Without Paying Anything or Throwing It in the Trash (cnet.com)

2026-07-22 | by Tamara Palmer | tags: best buy, staples, hard drive

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RS-232 and other forms of grief (feeds.nature.com)

2026-07-01 | by Russell | get RS-232 Serial Adapter → | tags: rs-232, avena corrientes, external hard drives

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TDK and NHK Spring accused of fixing prices on components used in 97% of hard drives for over a decade (techspot.com)

2026-05-23 | get Hard Drive Component Price Guide → | tags: tdk corporation, nhk spring, hard drives

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The best NAS devices of 2026: Expert tested and reviewed (zdnet.com)

2026-05-17 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Synology DiskStation DS920 → | tags: nas, raid, terramaster

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

2026-05-16 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Samsung T7 Portable SSD → | tags: external hard drives, zdnet, vendor listings

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Man Who Stole Beyonce's Hard Drives Gets Five-Year Sentence (slashdot.org)

2026-05-13 | get Encrypted External Hard Drive → | tags: beyonce, hard drives, program manager

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This is what some of the world’s largest banks of malware look like stacked as hard drives (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-13 | by Zack Whittaker | get Cybersecurity Hard Drive Kit → | tags: vx-underground, virustotal, malware source code

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This is what some the world’s largest banks of malware look like stacked as hard drives (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-13 | by Zack Whittaker | get Cybersecurity Hard Drive Kit → | tags: drives, feet, hard

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My first in-prod corrupted hard drive problem (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-08 | get External Hard Drive Enclosure → | tags: hard drive, ms sql, cybersecurity

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AI Hard Drive Shortage Makes Archiving the Internet Harder (slashdot.org)

2026-05-08 | get External SSD Storage Drive → | tags: hard drive, fermat, archiving

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Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-08 | by Hassam Nasir | get Seagate External Hard Drive → | tags: wayback machine, wikimedia foundation, hard drive shortages

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Crushing shortages have pushed long-term supply agreements for SSDs and HDDs to record five years — large customers are signing large contracts (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-04 | by Anton Shilov | get Samsung 970 EVO SSD → | tags: ssd, sandisk, hard drives

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I stress-tested this SSD enclosure with a bulldozer - here's how it held up (zdnet.com)

2026-04-27 | by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | get Sabrent Rocket NVMe Enclosure → | tags: terrarmaster, ssd, usb-c

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Toshiba refuses to replace large hard drive that was under warranty — company offers refund at the purchase price, not the higher current retail price (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-19 | by Jowi Morales | get Toshiba External Hard Drive → | tags: toshiba, hard drive, warranty

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Toshiba refuses to replace large hard drive that was under warranty — company offers refund at the purchase price, not the higher currfent retail price (tomshardware.com)

2026-04-19 | by Jowi Morales | get Toshiba External Hard Drive → | tags: toshiba, hard drive, warranty

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Backblaze has stopped backing up your data (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-04-14 | get Backblaze Backup Software → | tags: backblaze, onedrive, dropbox

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Here’s how to backup your Apple devices on World Backup Day (9to5mac.com)

2026-03-31 | by Ben Lovejoy | get Apple Backup Essentials Kit → | tags: apple, world backup day, icloud

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Backup Files and Your Entire Digital Life (2026): Hard Drives, Cloud-Based Tools, and Tips (wired.com)

2026-03-31 | by Scott Gilbertson | get External Hard Drive Backup Kit → | tags: backblaze, western digital, seagate

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At just $17.68 per Terabyte, this 22TB external Seagate Expansion HDD is one of the cheapest hard drives on the market — backup copious amounts of data for $389 (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-31 | by Stewart Bendle | get Seagate Expansion Desktop HDD → | tags: seagate, expansion, external hard drive

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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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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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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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Seagate achieves 6.9TB storage capacity per platter (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-27 | by Aaron Klotz | get Western Digital → | tags: capacity, drive, drives

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Seagate achieves a whopping 6.9TB storage capacity per platter in its laboratory — 55TB to 69TB hard drives now physically possible (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-26 | by Aaron Klotz | get Hard drive → | tags: capacity, drive, drives

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Save 36% on this huge 16TB WD external hard drive for Black Friday — shuckable storage upgrade down to just £258.99 (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-26 | by Ben Stockton | get External Hard Drive → | tags: deals, drive, elements