Hard disk failure can be relatively painless and a temporary event or as devastating as a permanent loss of vital data. There are a number […]
Category: Data Technology
Data storage technology keep data accessible and available for the future. This section features information about punch cards to floppy disks and tape to optical media to hard drives to flash technology and beyond.
Flash Translation Layer
Recent technological advances in the development of flash memory based devices are consolidating their leadership position as the preferred storage media in embedded systems at […]
Flash File Systems
In very simple approximation a flash file system is designed for storing files on flash memory–based storage devices, such as NAND memory chips. Although they […]
Seagate Seven
The Seagate Seven hard drive holds appeal for its performance, value, design and style. This USB 3.0-interface external portable drive performs as well as most […]
USB Type C
The USB Type-C is a new small reversible-plug connector for USB 3.1 devices. The type-C plug will be used at both the host and device […]
8TB Solid State Drive
Western Digital and Toshiba regularly ship 4TB and 6TB drives. Now Seagate and HGST has started shipping 8TB hard drives using helium technology that cost around $250. […]
Another Cloud Storage – Mega
Once upon a time there was Megaupload Ltd, an online company established in 2005 and based in Hong Kong that ran online services related to […]
100TB Hard Disk Drive
The latest Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (MMM) Conference, organized by the IEEE Magnetics Society and the American Physical Society in Las Vegas 2015, was an oportunity […]
Nanoimprint Lithography
Last week Toshiba and SK hynix announced an agreement to jointly develop NIL or Nano Imprint Lithography. The research was made possible after companies signed […]
Molecule-Based Magnets For Data Storage
The basic technology of magnetic data storage has been known since the late 19th century. The short version to explain how this works is explained […]