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Official PCIe 8.0 draft aims for 1 TB/s data rate

Final specs due for release in 2028, so don't hold your breath for the hardware

semiconductor

Everpure 'takes the hit' as AI-fueled supply crunch drives prices up 70%

Storage vendor predicts current crunch will outlast COVID disruptions

Illustration of an AI accelerator chip

Mass data awakening highlights importance of scaling AI infrastructure

Intelligence starts with building AI data infrastructure

Lunchtime deadline

IT manager approved downtime over lunch, but made a meal of it

Optimism is always risky, and defective hardware makes it indigestible

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Andy Warfield, AWS Distinguished Engineer Amazon S3

Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions

The core product is solid and priced fairly

Disk indicator light

How to navigate the storage crunch in the AI era

Watch this webinar and stop playing guessing games with your AI storage

Kubernetes bicycle wheel

Nutanix brings its K8s to bare metal because hardware matters again

Expands compatibility since it's tough to buy the boxes you want right now

Slop tank

Microslop stuffs AI photo restyling powers into OneDrive

Microslop? Sorry, we meant Microsoft

Nvidia

Storage vendors orbit the Nvidia sun at GTC

Hitachi Vantara, IBM, Nutanix, and Seagate all had something to say

penguin diving. Pic credit: Sergey Uryadnikov / Shutterstock

Big moves in Linux filesystems as new bcachefs lands and KDE adds support for Apple's APFS

Linux still can't mount or read APFS volumes by default ... but that's about to change

Birthday cake 20 candles

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’

Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint

memory

RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it

Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot

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Yuan Yuan, Huawei

Rethinking storage for the AI era

Huawei outlines how telecom operators may need to redesign data infrastructure as AI workloads grow

5.25 in floppy disk

Once upon a time, saving your bits meant punching holes in floppies

Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection

A question of memory

One vendor doesn't mind high RAM prices: VMware

Memory tiering and pooled memory are having a moment because they offer the chance to use less RAM

project silica

Microsoft's Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can't get there from here

Soon turned out, we had a heart of glass

A hard disk drive platter with 1s and 0s projected onto it

Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame

Oh snap! The hyperscalers bought all the HDDs

HPE

How AI Is forcing storage back into the enterprise conversation

HPE designs storage with AI realities in mind

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project silica

Microsoft boffins cook up archival storage using Pyrex glass they say can last over 10,000 years

It may have half the capacity of fused silica glass, but is faster and much cheaper

Micron's 9650 SSDs boast read speeds up to 28 GB/s

AI gets all the good stuff, including Micron's speedy 28 GB/s PCIe 6.0 SSD

Consumers have a long wait ahead of them before they can bring that kind of performance home

Close up of a generic black broadband router showing green LEDs for internet and DSL connectivity

Broadband rollouts feel the burn from AI memory frenzy

Prices for router and set-top boxes up nearly sevenfold, squeezing telcos and raising deployment costs

files

Microsoft sets Copilot agents loose on your OneDrive files

AI helpers can now rummage through multiple documents

Smiling elder man on wheelchair with braided blanket on legs and reads book

Microsoft finally sends TLS 1.0 and 1.1 to the cloud retirement home

Azure Storage now requires version 1.2 or newer for encrypted connections

Exit sign with clouds

Microsoft kills standalone SharePoint and OneDrive plans, because they’re not suite enough

Blames ‘unintended or nonstandard usage’ and the cost of keeping them alive

DRAM

DRAM prices expected to double in Q1 as AI ambitions push memory fabs to their limit

NAND flash now expected to surge 55–60% compared to Q4

Shutterstock tools

Microsoft rushes out another fix for cloud storage after January update

2026 is shaping up to be a bumper year for patch management

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melted-ice-cubes-drops

Microsoft admits Outlook might freeze when saving files to OneDrive

January update is the gift that keeps on giving

shutterstock micron

Micron breaks ground on humungous NY DRAM fab after beating bats and tree huggers

Chipmaker claims the four-fab site could expand US-based DRAM production by a factor of 12

cry

Buy servers now or cry later: DRAM price spike threatens infrastructure budgets

Component up 63% since September, more pricey memory coming to a supply chain near you

HBM

SK Hynix's $13B packaging facility promises more HBM for the AI bubble

Great news for AMD and Nvidia, less so for cash-strapped consumers

Switch off

Techie banned from client site for outage he didn’t cause

UPSes don’t work without power, or well-designed electricals

samsung

While you pay through the nose for memory, Samsung expects to triple its profits in Q4

Memory pricing expected to surge another 60% in Q1 with relief years away

SanDisk's divorce from WD is final and its kids are taking its name

SanDisk heals WD Black and Blues, rebrands beloved client SSDs

NVMe drives to live on under the Optimus banner

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Illustration of someone stealing binary numbers and running off with them

Infinidat's latest upgrades should make ransomware thieves shiver

Want to shield yourself against ransomware? Accelerate your recovery times. It starts with effective backup storage

Hybrid cloud

AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix’s AHV hypervisor

VMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options

data tapes

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered: First ever version of UNIX written in C is running again

Crucial early evolutionary step found, imaged, and ... amazingly ... works

DRAM

Tired of sky-high memory prices? Buckle up, we're in this for the long haul

We haven't even hit the peak, TechInsights tells El Reg

Lenovo

Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration

Lightning fast with oodles of capacity, meet the DE6600

server

Hyperscalers fuel $112B server spending spree in Q3

IDC's latest tracker numbers were brought to you by the letters A and I

Image of 5D memory crystal

The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years

SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystal cold storage tech closer to deployment in data centers

Green screen terminal

User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't

Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up

Crucial MX200 mSATA SSD

Micron ditches consumer memory brand Crucial to chase AI riches

First AI came for our jobs. Now, our memory?

Raspberry Pi booting

Cheaper 1 GB Raspberry Pi 5 lands as memory costs go through the roof

Budget model slips in at $45 while other boards climb amid AI-driven component crunch

self destruct

Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away

Catch: you have to plug it into a computer first

Lenovo

Eleven years after Lenovo acquired IBM’s x86 server biz, profits are still elusive

PC sales are pushing upwards nicely, but AI PCs only account for a third of the new fleet

time

Why don't storage systems last 12 years?

Hint: it's the software that's the problem

Legal generic

NetApp claims ex-CTO built a secret cloud platform then sold it to VAST Data

Lawsuit alleges he poached staff, lifted trade secrets, and set up Red Stapler before quitting

sorry

Oops. VMware admits it over-specced storage servers for years

VCF users wrestling with bill shock may get a little relief

dell

Need AI? Dell backs up the truck and tips out servers, storage, blueprints

Vendor leans on Nvidia tie-up so hard you can hear the GPUs squeak

Greenscreen data

InfiniBox G4 Family enhancements change the game in high-end enterprise storage

The new InfiniBox SSA G4 F24 offers a lower footprint and more storage. Who wouldn't want that?

Big Red Button

The great virtualization reset: Why HPE has the only real plan B

How to stay stable when the market shifts around you

data

Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it

How your data strategy can fuel innovation

data

Conquer your storage challenges for generative AI success

HPE's Alletra Storage MP X10000 addresses the problems of AI data management

Cleaning data

AlmaLinux gives Btrfs a home after Red Hat kicked it out

Not the default file system, but in the installer if you want it

Gold rush

The $100B memory war: Inside the battle for AI's future

The AI gold rush is so large that even third place is lucrative

collection of metal masks cut with smiley faces

Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily

Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more!

openAI

OpenAI ropes in Korean giants Samsung and SK Hynix to feed its AI megaproject

Duo pledge memory for Stargate to the tune of 900k DRAM wafer starts a month

health

Imaging infrastructure needs to catch up with how healthcare operates

Overprovisioning and poor performance can be things of the past for healthcare providers who see the bigger picture

tape backup in a dc

Boffins invent DNA tape that could pack 375 petabytes into an LTO cart

But it reads at about the speed of punch cards

Close up of the Signal app icon

Forget disappearing messages – now Signal will store 100MB of them for you for free

Including messages sent to users, a potential problem for the privacy-conscious

Railway tracks heading off into the sunset

Huawei's battery energy storage systems run out of juice in the UK

Sources say decision to pull products takes effect from end of 2025

Uber India

Uber India starts offering drivers gigs collecting and classifying info for AI models

Rideshare giant also reveals 350-petabyte data lake it protects with tech adapted from Airbnb

patch

Matrix.org homeserver grinds to a halt after RAID meltdown

Engineers wrangle 55 TB restore and traffic replay as millions of messages queue up

Illustration of a hard disk drive disintegrating

Teen interns brute-forced a disk install, with predictable results

The real lesson here is how little some companies care about training

snow shovel

Snowflake builds Spark clients for its own analytics engine

No need to spin up separate Apache Spark clusters, vendor claims

Flock_swarm_of_birds

Flock storage: Audio boffin encodes data in a starling

Birdsong stores 176 KB, but can it run Doom?

LTO tapes

And now for our annual ‘Tape is still not dead’ update

176.5 Exabytes of the stuff shipped in 2024, another double-digit jump

Hammer and anvil

HAMR time: Seagate unleashes 30 TB disks to feed the AI beast

Exos and IronWolf drives show spinning rust isn't going anywhere

GParted Live is very basic but it contains some very handy essentials, and little else.

GParted: Still the best free partitioner standing – unless you're on a 32-bit box

Latest release handles NBD and bcachefs, but you’ll need 64-bit hardware to boot it

vhs cassette tape

UK police dangle £75 million to digitize its VHS tape archives

Those pirated video nasties won’t last forever