There are times when users may end up with several HDDs with data on them that needs to be gone through. HDDs are still fairly cheap and can pack massive amounts of capacity. This is great for creative professionals or others that may deal with a rotation of bare drives, portable drives, or larger desktop

NVIDIA just launched a new set of GPUs designed to take gamers to the next visual level. The GeForce family has added the RTX 3070 Ti and the RTX 3080 Ti. While we tend to focus on the ProVis GPUs like the RTX A6000 we just reviewed, gaming GPUs have a special place in the

The NVIDIA RTX A6000 is the company’s newest release that leverages second-generation RTX architecture. Coupling 10,752 CUDA processing cores with its 84 next-generation RT cores, the new GPU offers top-class performance in both real-time ray-tracing and professional final frame ray-tracing output. Though NVIDIA considers the RTX A6000 as a successor to the RTX 6000, it

Today Sabrent teased a new Chia Plotting SSD, with the Sabrent PlotRipper. The details are a bit sparse still, but this may be the first SSD designed specifically for Chia plotting. Other companies have rebranded existing SSDs for Chia, this drive is entirely new. The company is releasing two SSDs in this Chia family, the

The Gigabyte AORUS Gen4 AIC Adaptor is a well-built expansion card that allows users to add more NVMe M.2 drives to their system and is highlighted by its support for the PCIe Gen4. With access to 16 lanes and when populated with four SSDs, Gigabyte states that read and write throughput can reach up to

For small Chia farmers and plotters doing their work on a single system, life is pretty easy, even if the Chia lotto gods are unkind. But as your plotter cranks along, many are finding it’s optimal to run separate plotting and farming rigs. Taken a step further, as we’ve found in our lab, it’s important

Active Chia farmers may have noticed some sluggishness in the blockchain sync recently. As it turns out, there may have been nefarious actors at play, or perhaps a bug. In either event, the blockchain we being messed with by inserting coins with negative values. This took place at block 255518 a little after midnight eastern.

Chia farming is a less intensive task when trying to get in on the latest crypto craze. While Chia plotting requires an SSD for optimal performance, farming on the other hand thrives on hard drives and can run on just about anything. Of course, the Raspberry Pi is the homelabber’s delight, a little unit that

Jonmichael Hands left what most consider to be a very good job at Intel, taking on the role of head of storage at Chia. Chia is a cryptocurrency that’s billed as one of the most green in the world since it leverages proof of space (PoS) rather than proof of work (PoW). The PoS model