MiniDiscs were small, cartridge-based magneto-optical discs, primarily made for audio. Sony made these smaller discs in the ...

Beyond PCs, the RAM crunch will impact every computing device. Laptop brands like Framework have suggested they will have to ...

The Series X is also equipped with a disc drive. If you value keeping a physical collection of your games, the the Xbox Series X is the way to go. It’s also good to have at least one Blu-ray player in ...

Solid gaming performance. Really bright, 240-Hz display. Convenient ports in the back. Responsive touchpad. Battery life is decent. Keyboard and palm rests get warm. Cheaper gaming laptops perform ...

In this increasingly digital era, physical media has become a thing of the past in most circles. There is, however, sustained interest in such supposedly antiquated tech. Some examples of this include ...

Gaming laptops are an interesting market, and there are a ton of great options to choose from. The Alienware 16X Aurora is just one of them, and it’s the smaller cousin to the Alienware 18 Area-51 I ...

If you were considering the purchase of a Synology NAS but were leery of the unreasonably high cost of populating it with special Synology-branded hard disk drives, you can breathe a little easier ...

If you look for a desktop or laptop PC, you’ll see that with very few exceptions, the hard disk drive (HDD), which has served us for decades, is no longer offered as an internal storage medium.

For 2025, Alienware revived its iconic Area-51 name and gave it an all-new design and flagship components. (Sam Rutherford for Engadget) Alienware is at its best when it makes no-holds-barred gaming ...

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This year marks the 45 th year of the International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST). It is the oldest continuous IEEE conference on digital storage technology. Topics at ...

It's difficult to believe how far technology has come since the mid-1950s. At a time when "I Love Lucy" and "The Honeymooners" were hit shows with nightly audiences, IBM was busy developing one of the ...