Apple offers three Apple One subscription tiers: Individual at $22/month with 50GB iCloud storage, Apple TV, Music and Arcade; Family at $28/month with 200GB shared storage and family-plan Apple Music for up to six people; and Premier at $40/month adding Fitness+, News+ and 2TB of storage. Each tier is priced below the cost of subscribing to its included services individually, with savings ranging from about $13 to $35 per month.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-08
Apple phones list a 'System Data' category under Settings > General > iPhone Storage that, combined with the iOS install itself, can consume nearly half the space on a 128GB iPhone. This catch-all includes caches, logs, Siri data, and other temporary files that aren't tied to any single app, making it hard for users to see exactly what's filling their device. There is no way to fully eliminate System Data, though it can be reduced through specific maintenance steps.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-07
Purge is a free Mac utility that scans a computer for recoverable storage, including caches, Apple's Aerial screensaver videos, Homebrew dev files, large forgotten media files, and leftover data from already-deleted apps. It also offers a full app-uninstaller that removes associated settings and caches, plus a tool to disable Apple Intelligence's offline AI models, which macOS 27 no longer lets users toggle off through normal settings.
wired.com
· 2026-11-07
GitHub announced a redesigned Git storage architecture at GitHub Universe that separates storage from compute and limits coordination to reference updates rather than entire pushes. Internal testing showed the system handling 5,000 concurrent agents on a single repository with 7,200 pushes per second while maintaining low-latency reads, and the rollout has migrated 99.99999% of repositories to Azure using scoped write quorums and virtual replicas on Azure Blob Storage.
github.blog
· 2026-11-06
An Android Authority writer describes using Google One's built-in Storage Manager tool to clean up nearly 4GB of old photos, large email attachments, spam, and bin items rather than paying for extra cloud storage. The tool, accessible via Drive, Photos, or the web, sorts clutter into categories like large documents, spam emails, and bin contents to simplify cleanup.
androidauthority.com
· 2026-11-06
The French Blood Establishment (EFS) said hackers broke into refrigeration systems at three of its sites on Monday, pushing temperatures and defrost thresholds to dangerously high levels. The intrusion exploited a vulnerability in Coolworld, the third-party refrigeration provider, rather than targeting EFS directly. No blood products were lost; staff caught the anomaly via monitoring systems and moved samples to other facilities before damage occurred.
futurism.com
· 2026-11-06
A guide outlines how to reuse a solid-state drive removed from an old or upgraded laptop by placing it into an external enclosure, turning it into a fast USB storage device. It notes that removal is only possible on laptops where the SSD isn't soldered to the logic board, as is common with Apple's MacBooks, and that buyers need an enclosure matching their drive's form factor, either 2.5-inch SATA or M.2 NVMe.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-03
Early estimates suggest Rockstar's upcoming Grand Theft Auto VI could require as much as a third of a launch PlayStation 5's storage capacity once installed. That would pose a particular challenge for owners of base PS5 models with smaller built-in drives.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-11-03
Rockstar Games confirmed that the pre-load file for Grand Theft Auto VI will require as much as 212GB of storage, with the exact size varying by device. The company said players will be able to begin pre-loading the game on PlayStation 5 ahead of its release this month.
theverge.com
· 2026-11-03
Furniture brand Mustard Made is running a site-wide sale of 25 percent off through November 11, covering its flat-pack storage lockers, cabinets, shelves, and other organizational products. WIRED reviewers note the lockers, including the entertainment-center-style Lowdown, come in 12 colors and are normally full-price items that rarely go on sale.
wired.com
· 2026-11-02
Amazon has temporarily priced the 512GB Samsung P9 microSD Express card at $99.99, down from its usual $149.99 list price and matching its original MSRP. The card supports sequential read speeds up to 800 MB/s and is compatible with the Nintendo Switch 2's expandable storage.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-02
A test compared Disk Cleanup, Storage Sense and Microsoft PC Manager on a 1TB C: drive with only about 4 percent free space remaining. Disk Cleanup, unchanged since Windows 98, runs a quick one-off scan for temporary files and caches, while Storage Sense works automatically in the background on a schedule. Microsoft PC Manager, a separate free download, performs a deeper scan and sorts reclaimable files into categories alongside other maintenance features.
engadget.com
· 2026-11-01
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