MiniDiscs were small, cartridge-based magneto-optical discs, primarily made for audio. Sony made these smaller discs in the ...

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In 1993, when Intel ushered in the modern computing age by releasing its Pentium chips, devices roared along at then-astounding speeds of around 60 MHz. Today's mainstream CPUs reach speeds of around ...

Storage formats aren't short-lived in the way CPUs and GPUs are; they last for decades, not years. Yet, when you zoom out and look at the storage types that have become obsolete, irrelevant, or ...

If you need to expand your Mac storage in a big way without breaking the bank, your best bet is with external hard drives.

Ever since flash took the storage world by storm, people have been watching this space as a hotbed of disruption. There has been all sorts of speculation about what technology will jump out next and ...

A new type of archival storage technology has been developed with the potential to store a petabyte of data on a CD-sized disc disk yet remain backward-compatible with existing CD and DVD technologies ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...

Despite the widespread belief upon their introduction to the market in the early 1980s that CDs would safely store data encoded on them forever, CDs and DVDs are actually susceptible to damage from ...

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If you're feeling the pinch of limited storage capacity on your Mac, these disk space analyzer apps could help you see how it has been consumed, and potentially free some space up too. There are ...