Italian engineer Lorentio Brodesco recently became the first person to successfully reverse-engineer the original PlayStation's motherboard, creating a custom printed circuit board that supports the ...

Faux86 should also run on the Raspberry Pi Zero, but is not believed to run reliably on Raspberry Pi 5 boards. As far as SD cards go, I always use branded microSD cards with the R ...

T he Nintendo Switch 2 is going into its third week of sales, and if the number of XDA staff who added one to their console ...

Robert Smith created an alternate version of the iconic Whac-A-Mole arcade game for the generation that both remembers arcades and knows why the save icon looks the way it does, as spotted by Hackaday ...

The creation of a new magnetic molecule could pave the way to build new, stamp-sized hard drives capable of holding the ...

This disc pack fits in a Memorex disc drive (1988.3027.01) for shipping. It consists of ten platters stacked a central hollow core. It has a clear plastic top cover with handle and an opaque plastic ...

Can Flash Drives Die?. USB flash drives are an efficient way to physically move data between devices, but aren't ideal for backing up vital data because the devices have a substantial chance of ...

If you are younger than a certain age, RLL probably doesn’t mean much to you. Old consumer-grade hard drives used MFM (modified frequency modulation like a floppy disk uses) and soon went to IDE ...

Stacked up against the best SSDs for PS5, PS5 external hard drives are easier to install (you simply plug them into a USB port on your console) but do have one key limitation to keep in mind ...

Despite the popularity of slim, speedy external SSDs, external hard drives are still essential, cost-effective storage. For as little as $50, you can add a terabyte to your laptop or desktop by ...