Recently [TheRetroChannel] came across an interesting failure mode on a Commodore 1541 5.25″ floppy disk drive, in the form of the activity LED blinking just once after power-up with the ...

Admit it. If you haven’t created your own little programming language, you’ve probably at least thought about it. [Muffed] ...

The personal technology industry, now run by some of the worst human beings on earth, was started by dreamers.

This is a browser and launcher for a 1541-Ultimate operated in "standalone mode". It currently only supports the original revision (not the UII or UII+). The 1541-Ultimate cartridges can't be used on ...

Hard drive manufacturers have already sold all the units they will make this year, and it looks like the AI infrastructure boom is to blame, with hyperscalers soaking up all the high-capacity storage.

Thanks to data center demands, Western Digital has committed all of its HDDs for at least the rest of the year. Reading time 2 minutes We’ve been taking the humble external hard disk drive for granted ...

Seagate and Western Digital dominate reliability rankings across massive real-world datasets Annualized failure rate falls to 1.36% across 344,196 drives Vibration emerges as the suspected cause ...

Presidents' Day is finally here, and while folks in the US are enjoying a hard-earned holiday, we're seeing gaming deals crop up left, right, and center. The PlayStation 5 is no exception, with both ...

AI demand has pushed RAM prices higher since last year, leading to supply shortages. The same trend appears to be hitting hard disk drives now, with leading HDD manufacturer Western Digital confirming ...