Digital Storage And Memory Projections For 2026, Part 1

HDD shipping capacity and revenue are projected to be over 6.5EB and between $25B and $35B by 2030. We project magnetic tape ...

This Windows utility fixes errors on my hard drive

If your hard drive is getting errors, you can scan for bad sectors and try to fix them with the Check Disk Utility.
Hawk Central

Leistikow's DVR Monday on Iowa's key comeback plays, Nebraska matchup

The finish was wild in Iowa’s 20-17 win over Michigan State, and the turnaround is ultra-quick for the Black Friday matchup against Nebraska in a battle of 7-4 teams. By the time Iowa players arrived ...
Cosmopolitan

Lip Reader Decodes Beatrice and Eugenie’s “Hard” Exchange at First Public Outing Since Andrew Lost His Title

Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie were seen out in public last week, in the luxury London borough of Mayfair, for the first time since their father, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly Prince ...
app.com

NJ Supreme Court must decide if Caneiro DVR taken without warrant was endangered by fire

The New Jersey Supreme Court is deciding whether to allow a home-security DVR as evidence in Paul Caneiro's quadruple murder trial. Prosecutors argue the DVR was seized without a warrant due to the ...
Computer Weekly

HDD metrics and why mean time to failure is not terribly useful

In this podcast, we talk to Rainer Kaese, senior manager of business development for hard disk drives at Toshiba Electronics Europe, about hard disk drive (HDD) metrics. In particular, he takes apart ...
ecoustics

ZapperBox Now Testing Whole Home ATSC 3.0 DVR with DRM Protected Broadcasts

While consumer advocates complain about NextGen TV’s restrictive DRM viewing and copy restrictions, one company figured out how to make it work for whole home DVR and live TV viewing. As savvy ...
Ars Technica

12 years of HDD analysis brings insight to the bathtub curve’s reliability

Backblaze is a backup and cloud storage company that has been tracking the annualized failure rates (AFRs) of the hard drives in its datacenter since 2013. As you can imagine, that’s netted the firm a ...
adexchanger

Scrapers Gonna Scrape; No More Fast-Forwarding The Ads, DVR Friends

Last month, Cloudflare announced its much-heralded Content Signals Policy, which updated millions of websites’ robots.txt files so as to restructure the way crawlers access content. As in, restrict ...
Wall Street Journal

TiVo Has Sold Its Last DVR. These People Refuse to Let Go.

Amy Suggars bought her first TiVo about 14 years ago and has been attached to the video-recording device ever since. But this month brought a double blow: First, TiVo announced it would no longer sell ...
Engadget

TiVo has discontinued its DVR boxes

TiVo has confirmed that it has stopped selling its DVR set-top boxes, marking the end of an era that changed how we watch television forever. As first reported earlier this month by Cord Cutters News, ...