disk drive — 4 Latest News (Weekly)

Hyperscalers are already locking in HDD supply for 2028, yet still expect a shortage. HDD lead times remain at 50 weeks vs. 16 weeks in a balanced market ... Show more

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What became of all the legendary hard drive brands #PCGH #pcgh #hdd #retro #Seagate #seagate #Toshiba #toshiba #westerndigital #WesternDigital

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trendforce Oct 05

HDD lead times remain at 50 weeks vs. 16 weeks in a balanced market.#Toshiba has announced an HDD capacity expansion, but meaningful supply relief is unlikely ... Show more

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Storage Crisis Analyzed: RAM, SSD, HDD, and GPU Price Check: According to 3DCenter’s price index, DDR5 memory will cost 5.6 times the pre-crisis level in German ...

pcgameshardware.de/RAM-Hardware-154108/Specials/Speicherpreise-RAM-SSD-HDD-Oktober-2026-Analyse-1557035/

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XDA

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Data from 341,000 hard drives prove the 'don't buy big' rule is completely backwards

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trendforce Oct 12

Toshiba to double HDD production capacity amid devastating shortages

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dlvr.it 3h

Engineer was so sick of office pranks, he 'wiped' his antagonist's disk: Revenge is a dish best served by autoexec.bat

theregister.com/software/2026/10/19/engineer-was-so-sick-of-office-pranks-he-wiped-his-antagonists-disk/5302162

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trendforce Oct 15

Meta and Chinese Brands Drive Doubling of AR Glasses Shipments, 2026 Forecast Expected to Reach 1.31 Million Units, Says TrendForce

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New Scientist Oct 14

We can rescue the AMOC after its collapse – but it won’t be easy

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Kotaku

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Jailbroken PS5s Can Now Emulate PS2 Games Using Physical Discs: Support for PlayStation 3 discs appears to be on the way too

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heise online

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Oct 09

Report: Seagate and Toshiba in a bidding war to acquire TDK's HDD business: TDK is the last independent supplier of read/write heads for hard drives. Now ...

heise.de/news/Bericht-Seagate-und-Toshiba-im-Bieterstreit-um-Uebernahme-von-TDKs-HDD-Geschaeft-11478599.html

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fox5atlanta.com Oct 05

Chick-fil-A takes a stand against fast-food drive-thru AI trend: Chick-fil-A is turning down artificial intelligence in its drive-thru lanes ...

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I built a recovery USB that can fix a Windows PC even when Windows won't boot

Key FactsRecovery USB aids Windows PCs that will not boot

Sep 23, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: xda-developers.com

The author uses Ventoy with GPT and Secure Boot support to manage four ISOs on the drive.

The official Windows 11 ISO opens the recovery environment without relying on files stored on the damaged drive.

Hiren’s BootCD PE starts a desktop with network drivers, enabling file backups and drive checks.

Rescuezilla creates images, while SystemRescue examines damaged partitions and can copy readable data from failing drives.

Never let your machine reach a place where your mind hasn't reached first.
— Abhinav, author of the article, applying aviation-derived wisdom to PC recovery.

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The Swiss army knife of USB docking DVD drives is on sale, also available with built-in M.2 SSD slot or SATA hard drive dock — $28 for DVD writer and hub ...

tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/the-swiss-army-knife-of-usb-docking-dvd-drives-is-on-sale-also-available-with-built-in-m-2-ssd-slot-or-sata-hard-drive-dock-usd28-for-dvd-writer-and-hub-usd33-gets-an-added-sata-dock-or-pay-usd39-for

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blocksandfiles.com Oct 06

Seagate and Toshiba both want to acquire TDK's disk read/write head business

blocksandfiles.com/disk/2026/10/06/seagate-and-toshiba-both-want-to-acquire-tdks-disk-read/write-head-business/5301393

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Ars Technica

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Oct 03

Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents: Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.

arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/apple-changes-full-disk-access-permissions-to-curb-abuse-from-ai-agents/

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Motor Trend

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Oct 06

2027 Lotus Emira 420 Sport First Drive: Certified Joy Machine: We drive the 2027 Lotus Emira 420 Sport with extra power and chassis upgrades that enhance the ...

motortrend.com/reviews/first-drive-2027-lotus-emira-420-sport

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trendforce.com Oct 02

[News] Toshiba to Double AI Data Center HDD Capacity by FY2027 With $380M Expansion as AI Storage Demand Surges

trendforce.com/news/2026/10/02/news-toshiba-to-double-ai-data-center-hdd-capacity-by-fy2027-with-380m-expansion-as-ai-storage-demand-surges/

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TechSpot

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Oct 07

Honda wants to turn highways into giant wireless chargers for electric trucks while they drive

techspot.com/news/114126-honda-wants-turn-highways-giant-wireless-chargers-electric.html

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Oct 01

2026 Ford Mustang RTR First Drive: Gittin Lit Is Nothin’ but a Good Time: Is Ford and RTR’s drift-influenced creation, the 2026 Ford Mustang RTR ...

motortrend.com/reviews/first-drive-2026-ford-mustang-rtr

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404 Media Sep 29

Some tech workers in San Francisco hooked up ChatGPT to a Toyota Corolla and got it to drive around a parking lot. The people behind the stunt call themselves ... Show more

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Phys.org

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Sep 30

Hidden star cluster discovered in Milky Way's crowded disk defies easy classification

phys.org/news/2026-09-hidden-star-cluster-milky-crowded.html

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XDA

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Oct 04

A 443,000 drive study just proved one hard drive brand fails twice as often as another

xda-developers.com/re-evaluating-all-of-the-hdds-in-my-nas/

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tomshardware.com

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Sep 23

We check out the Sharge's Disk Pro 2 Ultra: A compact, magnetic DIY SSD dock. #ExternalSSD #ExternalStorage

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TechSpot

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Sep 23

High-end audio brands are ditching CD players because nobody makes disc drives anymore

techspot.com/news/113949-high-end-audio-brands-ditching-cd-players-because.html

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What happens when you install a new game on an HDD?: Solid-state drives, or SSDs for short, are now found in every gaming PC. But their storage space is ...

pcgameshardware.de/Festplatte-Hardware-255553/Specials/Spiele-auf-HDD-oder-SSD-installieren-Tipps-1553839/

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trendforce Sep 21

#HDD is facing an even severe squeeze. Driven by agentic AI services, demand is keeping HDD supply extremely tight. Lead times are now at 50 weeks—more than ... Show more

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Phys.org

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Sep 24

Faint young stars reveal spiral galaxy Messier 74 may be twice as large as thought

phys.org/news/2026-09-faint-young-stars-reveal-spiral.html

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XDA

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Sep 25

Windows lives on the C: drive, and the reason it's not called A: or B: goes back to the 1970s

xda-developers.com/why-your-os-runs-on-c-and-not-a-or-b/

Key FactsWhy Windows Uses C: for Its System Drive

Sep 25, 2026 · Reading time: ~30 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: xda-developers.com

In the late 1970s, CP/M used A: for the first floppy drive and B: for the second.

MS-DOS adopted this arrangement, which became standard for compatible systems during the IBM PC era.

When hard drives appeared in the early 1980s, the first received the next available letter, C:.

Windows retains C: mainly because of older software, backward compatibility, and decades of user familiarity.

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Sep 20

Do you still have an HDD installed in your setup? 🫣 #benchmark #ssd #festplatte #pcgaming #thebloodofdawnwalker

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The Financial Express

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Sep 18

India-made chips are now being exported: Ashwini Vaishnaw: More fabs, deeper indigenisation and stronger design capabilities will drive the next phase

financialexpress.com/business/news/india-made-chips-are-now-being-exported-ashwini-vaishnaw/4342404/

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Wccftech Sep 07

RPCS3 Can Now Play PS3 Games Directly From Physical Discs On PC, Including Linux And macOS

wccftech.com/rpcs3-can-now-play-ps3-games-directly-from-physical-discs-on-pc/

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Mail Online Sep 17

Scientists blame climate change for Nepal's devastating flash floods - and warn similar disasters are 'inevitable' as global temperatures continue to rise

dailymail.com/sciencetech/article-16135633/Scientists-blame-climate-change-Nepal-floods.html

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XDA

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Sep 15

Ventoy turned one USB stick into every installer I ever needed, and I couldn't live without it

xda-developers.com/ventoy-turned-one-usb-stick-into-every-installer-ever-needed-and-couldnt-live-without/

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XDA

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Oct 10

Windows 11 quietly encrypted your entire PC, and one firmware update can lock you out of everything

xda-developers.com/windows-11-quietly-encrypted-your-entire-pc-and-one-firmware-update-can-lock-you-out-of-everything/

Key FactsWindows 11 Device Encryption Can Trigger Unexpected Recovery Lockouts

Sep 14, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: xda-developers.com

Since October 2024, Windows 11 24H2 has enabled Device Encryption by default on many clean installs and resets.

For local accounts, Microsoft says the recovery key is not automatically saved when the device is encrypted.

BIOS or UEFI updates, TPM changes, and boot-manager modifications can reportedly trigger the 48-digit key prompt.

Users should save the key before changing Secure Boot or the TPM and suspend BitLocker during those changes.

I've argued time and again that many of the default settings and updates that Windows 11 ships with assume the best interests of the user, but in practice, they can backfire and cause them genuine harm and loss.
— Abhinav, author of the article

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Sep 14

Tiny Mechanical TV Drum Delivers Shockingly Sharp 4K: The latest development in a 100-year-old display technology

spectrum.ieee.org/mechanical-tv-2677767814

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Sep 30

I moved my Windows page file off my main SSD, and my drive stopped doing work it never needed to do

xda-developers.com/i-moved-my-windows-page-file-off-my-main-ssd-and-my-drive-stopped-doing-work-it-never-needed-to-do/

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Sep 14

70 Years of Hard Drives: IBM Publicly Introduces RAMAC: Today, terabytes fit into devices that fit in a pocket. In 1956, however, data storage looked completely ...

pcgameshardware.de/Festplatte-Hardware-255553/News/Vor-70-Jahren-IBM-stellt-RAMAC-oeffentlich-vor-Start-kommerzieller-Aera-1553686/

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linktr.ee

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Sep 15

Google Photos backup is coming to Samsung Gallery: Samsung has revealed that the Gallery app on Galaxy phones and tablets will soon get the option to sync photos ...

sammobile.com/news/samsung-gallery-replacing-onedrive-google-photos-sync/

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trendforce Sep 01

Higher Prices and Shipments Drive Top Five Enterprise SSD Vendors’ Revenue to Nearly US$37.59 Billion in 2Q26, Says TrendForce

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SussexWorld

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Sep 09

Plans submitted for new McDonald’s and Starbucks drive-thrus in Bexhill: Proposals for a new Starbucks coffee shop and McDonald's restaurant in Bexhill have been ...

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Sep 06

James Bond: the 007 questions fans want answered about its future: Speculation has been building recently that an announcement about Daniel Craig's successor ...

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2qnq0py5vo

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I keep a $6 SATA-to-USB adapter in my desk, and it's recovered more drives than any software I've paid for

xda-developers.com/a-sata-to-usb-adapter-recovered-more-drives-than-any-paid-software/

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CyberNews Sep 02

Hugging Face Transformers flaw lets hackers drop files

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The Plain Dealer

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Aug 28

Browns QBs Dillon Gabriel and Taylen Green both make strong cases for the No. 3 job in 37-13 victory over Pat

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I keep a $6 SATA-to-USB adapter in my desk, and it's recovered more drives than any software I've paid for

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CyberNews Aug 31

PaperCut emergency patch urges users to patch again

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Windows Central Aug 26

Xbox's disc-to-digital program goes live for Insiders on Monday — Here's how it works

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Wccftech Aug 30

Microsoft Is Slowly Healing Windows 11, With OneDrive Finally Allowing Users To Fully Opt Out Of The Service, Getting Rid Of The Incessant Reminder

wccftech.com/microsoft-windows-11-onedrive-disable-opt-out-option/

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One Crucial 4TB SSD Customer Stands Ground And Refuses Lousy $200 Refund Offered By Company; Perseverance Finally Results In A “Direct 1:1 Replacement”

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Aug 30

2027 Lotus Emira 420 Sport First Drive: Certified Joy Machine: We drive the 2027 Lotus Emira 420 Sport with extra power and chassis upgrades that enhance the ...

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pcgameshardware.de

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Aug 24

First look inside Carlton’s brand new SEND school: A new, independent SEND school in Carlton has been granted authority to open by the Department for Eduction - ...

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TechSpot

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Aug 28

Samsung's new portable SSDs are blazing fast over USB4, but will torch your wallet

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tomshardware.com

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Aug 25

Stack up on Seagate hard drives with $30 off the 8TB Barracuda HDD — Its lowest price at Best Buy since April

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tomshardware.com

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Aug 27

Polls reveal local utility hikes and noise drive US data center protests, not anti-AI sentiment— beliefs and political affiliation had minimal impact on AI ...

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tomshardware.com

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Aug 21

Enterprise SSDs cost 18.6 times more than HDDs as 30TB drives hit $22,600 — hard drive supply is sold out through 2027

tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/enterprise-ssds-now-cost-18-times-more-than-hard-drives-per-terabyte

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tomshardware.com

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Aug 23

Maxell brings back classic 1970s cassette tapes — 1970s ferric formula is custom-made for vintage PC data drives

tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/maxell-partners-with-disk-union-to-release-ud-60u-special-edition-cassettes-black-and-red-ud-tapes-could-be-ideal-for-use-in-your-c64-datassette

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Notebookcheck Aug 26

Project Helix and PS6 consoles may be all-digital because of disc drive shortage: A new problem threatens disc support on the PS6 and Project Helix ...

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IEEE Spectrum

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Aug 27

Tiny Mechanical TV Drum Delivers Shockingly Sharp 4K: The latest development in a 100-year-old display technology

spectrum.ieee.org/mechanical-tv-2677767814

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XDA

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Aug 26

Intel discontinued its strangest SSD years ago, but it still makes my modern NVMe drives feel slow

xda-developers.com/intel-discontinued-its-strangest-ssd-years-ago-but-it-still-makes-my-modern-nvme-drives-feel-slow/

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pcgameshardware.de

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Aug 18

Storage prices 2026: RAM, SSD and HDD at record levels: The global storage crisis is driving prices for RAM, SSDs and hard drives to new record highs in August ...

pcgameshardware.de/RAM-Hardware-154108/Specials/Speicherpreise-RAM-SSD-HDD-Rekord-August-2026-1551263/

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The Independent

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Aug 13

We’ve had one of the wettest winters on record. Why are our reservoirs drying up?

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-heatwave-reservoirs-dry-wettest-winter-record-b3031088.html

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Financial Times

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Aug 16

Big Tech’s data centre boom poised to drive up carbon emissions : FT analysis finds 60 largest planned facilities could emit equivalent of 27 coal plants or 24mn ...

ft.com/content/8158cb5a-4bbd-43fd-b329-15a54e8422c8

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XDA

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Aug 25

My most important backup lives on a drive I unplug, and that's the entire reason it still works

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Wccftech Aug 20

A Customer Thought He Struck Gold With Three 32TB External Hard Drive Purchases, But He Found Out The Enclosures Had Nothing But A microSD Card Glued To The ...

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Aug 12

Spontaneous magnons synchronize with external signals at room temperature: Signals ride on waves of one kind or another: light, sound, radio. But new carriers ...

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New Atlas Aug 19

Blu-ray burner doubles as USB hub and card reader: The BluHub is a 9-in-1 device offering Blu-ray burning, USB hub, and card reader capabilities for modern ...

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XDA

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Aug 21

The same Linux setup follows me across three PCs, without cloning a single drive: Keep the same Linux workflow across multiple PCs without cloning drives by ...

xda-developers.com/same-linux-setup-across-three-pcs-without-cloning-drives/

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The Financial Express

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Aug 20

Govt unveils drive to clear port congestion: The CBIC launches a high-priority drive to clear long-pending containers at Indian ports, easing congestion ...

financialexpress.com/business/industry-govt-unveils-drive-to-clear-port-congestion-4321578/

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XDA

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Aug 12

Windows has been quietly wearing out your SSD, and the fix takes one setting: Microsoft wouldn't take care of my storage, so I will

xda-developers.com/windows-has-been-quietly-wearing-out-your-ssd-and-the-fix-takes-one-setting/

Key FactsWindows Fast Startup causes avoidable SSD writes

Aug 19, 2026 · Reading time: ~45 sec.
Summary created with AI assistance · Source: xda-developers.com

With Fast Startup enabled, Windows creates a compressed snapshot of the kernel and drivers during shutdown and stores it as hiberfil.sys on the boot drive.

On the system described, hiberfil.sys occupied 12.5GB, while hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys together used 24GB of storage.

Repeated writes can contribute to drive wear over its working life, and an SSD with little free space may be affected more because of higher write amplification.

Fast Startup can be disabled through Power Options, while powercfg /h off deletes hiberfil.sys and powercfg /h on reverses the change, but laptops then lose automatic hibernation protection if the battery runs out.

The problem is the fact that, over time, these become thousands of writes over the drive's working life, and every single one of them is avoidable.
— Abhinav, the article's author; describing the wear caused by hiberfil.sys writes and the impact of Fast Startup.

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Wccftech Aug 19

A 4TB Samsung 870 EVO SATA III SSD Owner Shows How Good We Had It, In Less Than Three Years, The Price For The Exact Same Drive Has Jumped By 6x

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Bournemouth Echo

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Aug 19

Wind farm tycoon exposed for child abuse images on hard drive: A wind farm tycoon was exposed for having child porn after he went into a Bournemouth computer ...

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PC Gamer

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Aug 10

Cancelled Quake 4 expansion gets surprise GitHub release after former XCOM 2 developer discovers it on an old hard drive: 'This essentially saved my ...

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oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk Aug 11

Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global…: The Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford brings together the best minds from ...

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Stratford Observer Aug 13

The Ivy set to open in Stratford next month as senior team confirmed: The Ivy Collection has confirmed that its new Stratford-upon-Avon restaurant is on track to ...

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trendforce Aug 03

💾 Server DRAM Isn't Safe Either: HBM's Crowd-Out Effect Is Not Easing. Cloud titans' aggressive AI infrastructure expansion continues to drive ... Show more

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Aug 15

OSRS only exists today because someone found a 2007 backup in a drawer, says Jagex

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iol.co.za

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Aug 14

Gregory Loftus described how police covered their tracks after the 3 February raid. They seized the CCTV hard drive from Bevan's home—the one piece of ... Show more

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