Home > Computing The history of computer storage (slideshow) Did you know that the hard drive in your computer is mechanically identical to IBM's room-sized hard drives from 1961?

In January, the Computer History Museum will open a new exhibit called “ Revolution: The First 2,000 years of Computing ” that will tell the story of computing from the abacus to the smartphone.

Quantum computing will be able to process massive amounts of data at extraordinary speeds, but challenges exist in data storage. How will today’s storage systems keep pace?

Optical storage did evolve-from the early monsters like the 55-pound bruiser mentioned in this story-to magneto optical drives, compact disc drives, writable CDs, rewritable CDs and now DVDs. And some ...

This cross-journal Collection shines a spotlight on research exploring DNA as a scalable and sustainable medium for computing and data storage.

Big data storage: What is big data, what compute/storage system configurations are used for big data analytics, and what type of storage infrastructure does it require?

Two plastic data packs, one in a blue plastic case and from Control Data, the other in a translucent black plastic case and from WANG. As the name data pack suggests, the objects are layered groupings ...

In a bid to create smaller, more powerful computers and smartphones, researchers at New York University have come up with a new digital data storage technique they've dubbed "racetrack memory ...

It essentially allows us to conduct the full range of DNA data storage and computing functions.” This could pave the way not just for DNA data storage, but full DNA computers.