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US extracts rare earths from hard drives, strikes blow to China’s dominance
With rare earth exports caught in the crossfire of rising U.S.–China tariffs, the global tech and defense industries are ...
Synology Jumps The Shark And Restricts Hard Drives For Its NAS Devices
Synology's newer NAS devices will require the use of its own-branded drives to unlock previously standard features.
Synology to require branded hard drives for future NAS models
The next high-end NAS line from Synology will require the use of the company's branded hard disk drives. The manufacturer ...
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Western Digital, Microsoft Target Rare Earth Metals Through Hard Drive Recycling
The initiative focuses on data center hard drives for the recovery of rare earth elements, which have taken on new significance as China pushes back against US tariffs.
Synology is tightening restrictions on third-party NAS hard drives
The restrictions are coming in new models, but existing Synology NAS systems won’t be affected.
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My external hard drive is more than just archival storage
Call it OCD or something else, but I like to offload any data that I can to my 2TB external hard drive. Earlier, the only files I stored on it were old photos and videos dating back to my school years ...
Xbox Series X/S storage space problems solved by a sneaky Xbox Game Pass update
The Series S has a feeble 512GB of internal storage (with even less available to the user), while the Series X's 1TB soon ...