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Best external hard drives in 2025: the storage media I'd take on my own gaming adventures
By Nick Evanson last updated
TB on the go Grab one of the best external hard drives to increase your storage space or backup your PC.

Game of Thrones actor and former World's Strongest Man Hafþór Björnsson has hoisted 996 lbs, 283 Petabytes, and about $32 million worth of next-gen SSDs in what has to be the most expensive deadlift in history
By Ted Litchfield published
news The union of strength spectacle and enterprise hardware we were all craving.

Researchers have developed a Very Big Disc™ that can store up to 200 terabytes of data and may represent a return to optical media for long term storage
By Andy Edser published
news You can't keep a good disk down, it seems.

RIP to hard drives: SSDs only for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
By Jonathan Bolding published
News Between Cyberpunk 2077, Starfield, and Baldur's Gate 3, it's clear that the HDD's time has fully ended.

Millions of perfectly fine HDDs are shredded each year because of 'zero risk' security policies. Spoiler alert: There's still a risk of stolen data from just a 3mm scrap
By Katie Wickens published
news There are better, safer, greener ways to deal with old hard drives.

I'm enjoying the surface level absurdity of Microsoft updating DirectStorage 1.2 for the benefit of ye olde hard drives
By Dave James published
news Though it could be the feature which encourages more developers to implement DirectStorage in their games.

HDD vs SSD - which is the storage tech for you?
By Dave James published
Hard Truths Is the storage war over? Here's a rundown of the key differences to help make your mind up.

New storage-based cryptocurrency loses half its value on launch day
By Alan Dexter published
News Don't panic, the next big cryptocurrency isn't coming for our gaming hard drives and SSDs.
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