Storage

America has some issues right now at the federal level with the Government shutdown, but at the state level, they’re still powering along. The tech-forward state of California, has announced a new standard, effective in 2020, will require all new homes to include solar panels. The decision comes from...

The world’s biggest SSD is now 100TB and that’s simply incredible. The drive comes from Nimbus Data which most of you would never have heard of before. The company is well known for making large, enterprise class storage. Basically this a drive for your boss, not for you. Companies...

This month Western Digital added to its offering in their Purple lineup of hard drives. Those not familiar with the colour bands, purple is WD’s product range aimed at surveillance applications and their latest drive is a massive 10TB in size. The new HDD is helium-filled as the platter density...

The South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill will reveal a New energy policy tomorrow at 11am. The announcement comes on the back of conversations with Tesla Founder Elon Musk about how the company could assist the state (and the country) in storing energy made from their high volume of renewable energy generation. Is...

Elon Musk says Tesla Energy is ready to help South Australia with their energy issues. After recent blackouts, the state’s agressive plan to switch to renewable energy has come under pressure. While the issue has been heavily politicised, today things took a turn for the better. Mike Cannon-Brookes is...

Seagate have just announced a new SSD for the Xbox One. Despite the console offering some impressive hardware specs, there are times where it feels slow and upgrading the drive is certainly your best chance at speeding things up. The Seagate Game Drive for Xbox SSD uses flash storage...

I’ve complained a lot on Twitter about the lack of development from the OneDrive team, but it looks like they’re finally adding new features. Running the latest insider build of Windows 10 (fast ring), OneDrive now allows users to pause syncing for 2, 8 or 24 hours. Imagine you’re travelling...

Samsung have created some new, awesomely fast storage cards, problem is, there are no devices on sale today that can handle them. Unveiled are the industry’s first memory cards based on the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 1.0 standard. As the world continues its insatiable thirst for storage, things need to...

Sandisk have just added a 128GB USB Type-C flash drive to their lineup. Great for those who need highest-speed data transfers on portable storage and as more mobile phones add USB-C ports, copying data between your phone and PC has never been faster, or easier. Cloud storage may be all...