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2021 Media Shipments Exabytes Revenue $/GB Flash 598 $68.6B $0.115 Hard Disk 1418 $28.0B $0.020 LTO Tape 59.2 $0.51B $0...

Once again I attended most of the library of Congress' Designing Storage Architectures workshop remotely. I apologize for the delay in p...

Internet Archive Staff Bruce Li introduces his The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting thus: Thi...

As I read Zak Killian's Expect HDD, SSD shortages as AI rewrites the rules of storage hierarchy — multiple companies announce price hike...

I gave a talk at the Berkeley I-school's Information Access Seminar entitled Archival Storage . Below the fold is the text of the talk ...

Five years ago, at the urging of the Internet Archive , I implemented a simple interactive version of the Economic Model of Long-Term Stora...

The Internet Archive is a remarkable institution, which has become increasingly important during the pandemic. It has been for many years ...

Almost two years ago, in The Four Most Expensive Words in the English Language , I wrote skeptically about the economics of decentralized s...

Although there are significant technological risks to data stored for the long term , its most important vulnerability is to interruptions ...

It has been too long, two-and-a-half years, since the last of Tom Coughlin's Storage Valley Supper Club events. But he just organized on...

IDC & TrendForce data via Aaron Rakers Chris Mellor's How long before SSDs replace nearline disk drives? starts with a quote I...

Luis Ceze, Jeff Nivala and Karin Strauss of the University of Washington and Microsoft Research team have published a fascinating review of ...

In Demand Is Far From Insatiable I looked at Chris Mellor's overview of the miserable Q2 numbers from Seagate, Nearline disk drive dema...

I found a video of Jefferson Bailey's talk at the Ethics of Archiving the Web conference from a year ago. It was entitled Lets Put Our ...

In DNA's Niche in the Storage Market , I addressed a hypothetical DNA storage company's engineers and posed this challenge: increa...

Based on numbers that IDC conjures from thin air , pundits believe that demand for storage is insatiable because everyone says Lets Just Kee...

My work on the economics of long-term storage with students at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Research in Storage Systems stopped about six ye...

My only post about storage since May , was October's Betteridge's Law Violation , another critique of IDC's Digital Universe, an...

In The Four Most Expensive Words In The English Language I wrote: Since the key property of a cryptocurrency-based storage service is a ...

Erez Zadok points me to Wasim Ahmed Bhat's Is a Data-Capacity Gap Inevitable in Big Data Storage? in IEEE Computer . It is a violation ...