Factors affecting the choice of a secondary storage device include: speed (how quickly data can be accessed) cost per storage unit (i.e. price per gigabyte or megabyte) durability (toughness) ...

In a practice many experts would describe as “killing a fly with a nuclear bomb”, many of the world’s largest tech companies have been found to be destroying thousands of storage devices every year in ...

Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and their colleagues from Germany and the Netherlands have achieved material magnetization switching on the shortest timescales, at a ...

Researchers at Radboud University in the Netherlands claim that widely used data storage devices with self-encrypting drives don’t provide the expected level of data protection. According to the ...