A beginner’s guide to lightning-fast data access with NVMe storage. Discover how NVMe revolutionizes data storage by providing faster data access, reduced latency, and enhanced performance for flash-based storage solutions. Read the blog! https://ow.ly/vCKz50UUx6m
#NVMe #DataStorage #FlashStorage #TechBlog #StorageTechnology #StorageSolutions #lightbitslabs
#flashstorage
Western Digital Is Now HDD-Only; SanDisk Takes Over SSDs #flashstorage #harddiskdrive #hardware #hdd #sandisk #ssd #storage #wd #westerndigital
https://www.lowyat.net/2025/344971/western-digital-is-now-hdd-only-sandisk-takes-over-ssds/
Pure Storage is setting new standards in hyperscale storage! Discover how our all-flash platform was chosen by a major hyperscaler for unmatched reliability, scalability, and efficiency, redefining what’s possible in AI and data-driven workloads. #FlashStorage
Would you pay $80 for 1TB for your #MacMiniM4? Well, you can:
https://medium.com/p/2a6d5ade7a2c
#Apple #MacMini #Mac #macOS #AppleM4 #AppleM4Pro #M4Pro #Storage #SSD #NVMe #FlashNAND #NAND #FlashStorage #SolidStateDrive #Hardware #PCHardware #Computer #Computers #Guide #Guides #Enclosure #HDD #HardDrive #ExternalStorage
It’s like those Pac Man joystick TV games but we are brave enough to do keyboard DOOM!
DoooooOOOOM
https://learn.adafruit.com/doom-keeb?view=all
#adafruit #gamingkeyboard #customkeyboards #keebs #keyboardmod #kb2040 #circuitpython #doomgame #neokey #retrogaming #usbmod #techhack #keyboardhacker #keyboardenthusiast #doombutton #gaminghack #zdgame #hiddenusb #flashstorage #keebcommunity #doom
Ultrastar Transporter: 368 TB NVMe-Speicher werden im Koffer transportiert https://www.computerbase.de/2024-04/ultrastar-transporter-368-tb-nvme-speicher-werden-im-koffer-transportiert/ #UltrastarTransporter #Flashstorage
Just Posted: Justin Warren examines Quantum Myriad, a contemporary all-flash storage solution tailored for high-performance and AI workloads, representing a pragmatic evolution in modern storage architecture to meet the needs of large-scale, low-latency environments. @daedalus #FlashStorage #Sponsored #TFDShowcase
https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/quantum/jpwarren/quantum-myriad-reimagines-what-modern-storage-can-be/
Just Posted: Max Mortillaro reviews Quantum's Myriad, a unified file and object storage platform designed to accommodate the rigorous demands of high-performance, data-intensive applications like AI and HPC. @maxmortillaro #AI #FlashStorage #ML #Sponsored #Storage #TFDShowcase
https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/quantum/darkkavenger/quantum-myriad-a-future-proof-storage-for-high-performance-workloads/
Just Posted: The article "Great AI Needs Great Storage with Ace Stryker of Solidigm" highlights a podcast episode that discusses the critical need for high-performance, low-latency storage to enhance AI efficiencies and minimize GPU downtime. #AI #AIFD4 #FlashStorage #GPU #UtilizingAI
https://utilizingtech.com/podcast/season-6/great-ai-needs-great-storage-with-ace-stryker-of-solidigm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=great-ai-needs-great-storage-with-ace-stryker-of-solidigm
German Data Specialists Finds Many Faulty USB Thumb Drives https://petapixel.com/2024/02/06/german-data-specialists-find-that-many-flash-drives-are-faulty/ #flashstorage #microsdcards #datastorage #Equipment #usbsticks #microsd #News
How Do You Test If An EEPROM Can Hold Data For 100 Years? https://hackaday.com/2023/12/21/how-do-you-test-if-an-eeprom-can-hold-data-for-100-years/ #acceleratedaging #flashstorage #Engineering #OriginalArt #Featured #hardware #eeprom #flash
Just Posted: Tom Hollingsworth discusses President Joe Biden's comprehensive executive order addressing AI safety and governance, demanding transparency from tech companies and signaling a move towards enhanced AI governance in the US. @networkingnerd #AI #China #FlashStorage #Rundown #Snapdragon
https://gestaltit.com/rundown/tom/executive-order-for-federal-ai-standards-signed-gestalt-it-rundown-november-1-2023/
#SymLink: The article discusses the unveiling of the Flash Array R4 platform by Pure Storage, highlighting its enhanced capabilities and the use of Intel's 4th generation Xeon processors, DDR5 RAM, and PCIe4 @GestaltIT @sfoskett
https://gestaltit.com/sponsored/pure-storage/stephen/pure-storage-unveils-flash-array-r4-empowering-next-generation-storage-solutions/
#FlashArrayR4 #FlashStorage #PureAccelerate #Sponsored #Storage
IO Peaks beim Backup/Restore sind auf alten Servern echt zum vergessen. #serveradmin #iops #backup #flashstorage #ssd #oldskool
Linux Arcade Cab Gives Up Its Secrets Too Easily
Sometimes reverse engineering embedded systems can be a right old faff, with you needing to resort to all kinds of tricks such as power glitching in order to poke a tiny hole in the armour, giving you an way in. And, sometimes the door is just plain wide open. This detailed exploration of an off-the-shelf retro arcade machine, is definitely in that second camp, for an unknown reason. [Matthew Alt] of VoidStar Security, took a detailed look into how this unit works, which reads as a great introduction to how embedded Linux is constructed on these minimal systems.
Could this debug serial port be more obvious?
The hardware is the usual bartop cabinet, with dual controls and an LCD display, with just enough inside a metal enclosure to drive the show. Inside this, the main PCB has the expected minimal ARM-based application processor with its supporting circuit. The processor is the Rockchip RK3128, sporting a quad-core ARM Neon and a Mali400 GPU, but the main selling point is the excellent Linux support. You'll likely see this chip or its relatives powering cheap Android TV boxes, and it's the core of this nice looking 'mini PC' platform from firefly. Maybe something to consider seeing as though Raspberry Pis are currently so hard to come by?
Anyway, we digress a little, [Matthew] breaks it down for us in a very methodical way, first by identifying the main ICs and downloading the appropriate datasheets. Next he moves on to connectors, locating an internal non-user-facing USB micro port, which is definitely going to be of interest. Finally, the rather obvious un-populated 3-pin header is clearly identified as a serial port. This was captured using a Saleae clone, to verify it indeed was a UART interface and measure the baud rate. After doing that, he hooked it into a Raspberry Pi UART and by attaching the standard screen utility to the serial device, low-and-behold a boot log and a root prompt! This thing really is barn-door wide-open.
Is that a root prompt you have for me? Oh why yes it is!
Simply by plugging in a USB stick, the entire flash memory was copied over, partitions and all, giving a full backup in case subsequent hacking messed things up. Being based on U-Boot, it was a trivial matter of just keying in 'Ctrl-C' at boot time, and he was dropped straight into the U-Boot command line, and all configuration could be easily read out. By using U-Boot to low-level dump the SPI flash to an external USB device, via a RAM copy, he proved he could do the reverse and write the same image back to flash without breaking something, so it was now possible to reverse engineer the software, make changes and write it back. Automation of the process was done using Depthcharge on the Raspberry Pi, which was also good to read about. We will keep an eye on the blog for what he does with it next!
As we've covered earlier, embedded Linux really is everywhere, and once you've got hardware access and some software support, hacking in new tricks is not so hard either.
#linuxhacks #softwarehacks #dasuboot #depthcharge #embeddedlinux #flashstorage #retroarcade #reverseengineering #spi
I am looking to get a USB memory stick (again...).
I was hoping that SanDisk will not let me down, but out of 2 units I purchased, one died within a year. I don't really trust the other.
I wonder if PNY is a reliable brand. I don't want to be forced to send my USB stick to a landfill every year, becasue it was cheap, that's harmful to the planet and I don't want that.
Do you know any USB memory brands that don't sell disposable units?
#USBmemory #FlashStorage #Thumbdrive
An Epic Quest to Put More Music on an iPod Nano 3G
While many would argue that the original iPod is the most iconic entry in the long and diverse line of digital audio players that Apple released over the years, there must certainly be some consideration for the third generation (3G) iPod Nano. It's a device that was ahead of its time in many ways, and is still perfectly usable today, although [Tucker Osman] does think it could stand to have its maximum flash storage doubled to 16 GB.
Now, we'd like to tell you that he's already succeeded in this task. After all, in theory, it should be pretty straightforward: just remove the 8 GB flash chip and replace it with a pin-compatible 16 GB version. But of course, this is Apple we're talking about. Nothing is ever quite that easy, and it seems that at every turn both the hardware and software in the thirteen-year-old iPod are fighting the change.
It took several attempts before the original flash chip could be swapped out, but eventually [Tucker] and his friend [Wesley] got one to survive the operation. Unfortunately, all they had to show for their effort was an unhelpful error screen.
From here on out the assumption was that they were dealing with a software problem. Luckily the Rockbox bootloader had previously been ported to the 3G Nano, which helped get the ball rolling. The next step would be to patch the Nano's firmware to accept the ID of the new flash chip, but after a year of work, it's turned out to be a bit more complicated than that.
[Tucker] hasn't given up yet, and is actively looking for anyone who'd like to help out with his quest. He's shared some information with a few like minded individuals on Hackaday.io, and he's also started a Discord server dedicated to Nano hacking. At this point, it sounds like he's very close to actually reading data from the 16 GB chip, but there's still a long way to go before the Nano's firmware will actually play music from it.
Despite most people now using their smartphones to play music these days, we still see a lot of interest in upgrading and modernizing the iPod. From replacing their original hard drives with micro SD cards to installing a Raspberry Pi Zero in place of the original electronics, hackers are still infatuated with Apple's legendary media player.
#classichacks #ipodhacks #flashstorage #ipod #ipodnano #rockbox
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