Once upon a time, you could buy floppy drive cleaning disks at just about any stationary or computer store. These days, they’re harder to find. If you want to build one yourself, though, you ...

The pre-fab encoder disks don’t have individual magnets—they’re just a puck of magnetic slurry that gets its polarity on the assembly line. [Erich] reverse-engineered a disk and found the ...

You can use the swapon and swapoff commands to enable and disable a swap device at will. This is handled automatically on ...

“Floppy disks are very reliable, very stable, a very well understood way to get information in and out of a machine,” he says. REUTERS But he is not expecting it to survive another 20 years.

Interestingly, though floppy disks are obsolete in modern computing, they remain in use in some niches. Hence, we can't really consider them dead, especially when very important industries still ...

The LincPlus LincStation S1 network-attached storage device balances speed and storage capacity pretty well, while also being stylish enough to not look out of place on an Apple-centric desktop.

Hard disks are very durable Backblaze The annualized failure rate of all the hard disks in Backblaze’s farm was only 1.49% - the lowest value recorded since it began recording that data in 2013.

"Not in a million years did I think I would ever sell blank floppy disks." That's because duplicating floppys in the 1990s, he says, was "as good as printing money." ...

Those disks were everywhere in the 1990s and then became rare. The industry moved on to CDs and flash drives and finally just downloading data instead of physically passing it around.

Ever wondered what truly keeps America’s bustling skies safe and organized? You might picture cutting-edge technology, sleek ...

Direct Detection When searching for planets in protoplanetary disks, it’s easy to convince yourself that you’re seeing them. Astronomers who study these disks have already spotted multiple specks of ...