Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. If you’re unfamiliar with the term “bit rot”, it refers to ...

Mehedi Hasan Shoab is a freelance writer specializing in Software as a Service, marketing and real estate. Follow him on Twitter @MhShoab. Data storage is critical to modern education, particularly in ...

You love your memories and photos are the best way to relive them. But for how long can you preserve your precious photos - 2 years, 5 years, 10, 20…or forever? Digital photos are not immortal! You ...

Several readers sent me a link to a piece by ExtremeTech's Loyd Case asking me what I thought of the problems he was having with his system: On the mornings I don't head into the ExtremeTech office in ...

Bit rot tech debt happens over time. A component or system slowly devolves into unnecessary complexity through lots of incremental changes, often exacerbated when worked upon by several people who ...

I should add, I'm aware that there are (several) filesystems that do ECC/checksumming, but I'm really more interested in something that can store parity data in standard files. This seems to me to be ...

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Robert J. Wiersema: While powerful as a whole, the book does, unavoidably, remind the reader of the limitations in Coupland's approach You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...