Quiz Of The Week: Storage!

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Take a spin down memory lane with our storage history quiz

Storage is the one sector of IT that never slows down and never has a recession. No matter what else happens, we always need more storage.

It’s only a few years since storage pioneers left punched cards behind and began to place pathetically small amounts of data on magnetic tapes and disks – but  some of those magnetic media have already passed into history.

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The Neverending Storage?

We hope you can still remember the floppy drive, and the excitement of the arrival of USB drives.

Perhaps you already have one of Victorinox’s 1Terabyte Swiss Army Knife USB drives, and maybe you are looking ahead to the time when solid state disks (SSDs) finally replace the spinning media, and all those read/write heads can be parked and go to sleep.

Whatever your experience of storage, we know you have feelings about it, so take a spin down memory lane.

If you are a vast repository of storage knowledge, here is your chance to shine – just

Take our storage quiz!

And if you like it, try some of our other quizzes.