Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Microsoft) Xbox Series X or S owners in need of more storage space may be in luck if they have a spare SSD, according to one modder’s experiences. Writing in a step-by-step post on the Chinese video-sharing site Bilibili, a user has discovered that it’s potentially possible to use any […]
Seagate says its Firecuda 530 M. 2 drive will work with the PS5. [credit: Seagate ] New PlayStation 5 system software rolling out in beta today finally unlocks the long-promised ability to expand the system’s 667GB of usable internal storage, using M. 2 SSDs that fit certain technical and physical requirements. As listed on a […]
Enlarge / Fluorescent tagged DNA is the key to a new storage system. (credit: Gerald Barber, Virginia Tech) DNA-based data storage appears to offer solutions to some of the problems created by humanity’s ever-growing capacity to create data we want to hang on to. Compared to most other media, DNA offers phenomenal data densities. If […]
Enlarge / A pharmacist holding a vial of the undiluted Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for COVID-19. (credit: Getty | JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER) The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday announced a big change in the way doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine can be handled. From now on, undiluted vials of the mRNA vaccine can stay at normal […]
Enlarge / The new Intel H20 looks like a standard NVMe SSD—but it packs both slow QLC NAND and ultra-fast Optane into separate chips on the same M.2 drive. (credit: Intel) Intel’s got a new consumer-targeted storage product, called Optane H20—as in H twenty, not water. The new device is an M.2 2280 format drive, […]
Enlarge (credit: Rizlan Bencheikh and Bruce Arey, PNNL) In recent years, researchers have used DNA to encode everything from an operating system to malware. Rather than being a technological curiosity, these efforts were serious attempts to take advantage of DNA’s properties for long-term storage of data. DNA can remain chemically stable for hundreds of thousands […]
A visualization reveals how the growth storage-card slots to the back of the Xbox Collection X. [charge: Microsoft / / Eurogamer ] Back in Marchwe warned that the proprietary NVMe storage system expansions used at the Xbox collection X (and the Xbox collection S) might be quite a little pricier compared to conventional storage choices. […]