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Ever wondered what truly keeps America’s bustling skies safe and organized? You might picture cutting-edge technology, sleek ...
Maingear is launching a ’90s-era horizontal desktop with modern components inside. The Retro95 is a beige sleeper build and ...
“Floppy disks are very reliable, very stable, a very well understood way to get information in and out of a machine,” he says. “Plus, they have the additional feature of not being very ...
The Storage Hot Rod's also got a dedicated LSI-9300-8i Host Bus Adapter (HBA) which isn't used for anything but the disks under test. The first four bays of the chassis have our own backup data on ...
Old floppy disks are also useful for retro PC enthusiasts. It’s possible to upgrade most retro PCs to bypass the need for floppies, but until you make that upgrade, a 3.5-inch floppy remains the ...
Item 1 of 4 Tom Persky, owner of floppydisk.com, uses older computers to format the disks that he sources from second-hand websites and eBay at his warehouse in Lake Forest, California, U.S ...
Black holes are always fascinating, and a new simulation adds to their mystery. You likely did not previously associate them with fluffy angel-food cake, but researchers at Caltech recently put ...
Astronomers taken on the role of cosmic archeologists, using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to excavate over 100 disk galaxies from up to 11 billion years ago. Just like artifacts excavated ...
The most realistic way to test and benchmark disks is, of course, to just use them and see what happens. Unfortunately, that's neither very repeatable, nor is it simple to analyze.