The thread discusses the Q2 2026 Drive Stats report from Backblaze, focusing on hard drive failure rates, notable models, and emerging technologies in storage solutions. It highlights the importance of understanding drive reliability and te…
Researchers from the University of California, San Diego developed a technique using light to switch magnetic states in materials, improving data storage speed and efficiency while surpassing traditional method limitations. This innovation …
The thread discusses two new features announced by Amazon Kinesis Data Streams: data delivery to general-purpose S3 buckets and streaming tables for Apache Iceberg on S3. These updates are significant for data processing and storage solutio…
A public broadcaster lost access to 50TB of archival data after its cloud storage provider went out of business, leading to a lawsuit against the data center to preserve the data. The incident highlights issues with data storage reliability…