Last month, several QNAP users and their systems were hit with a ransomware attack. The main attack was known as Qlocker and did was ransomware does, encrypts users’ data until they pay a ransom to get it back. QNAP made an effort to stave off future attacks and remove any malware floating around on their

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

Today at its Flash Perspective event, Western Digital made the somewhat odd choice of rebranding its very popular G-Technology line as SanDisk Professional. I say somewhat odd as the brand was very popular and they seem to be keeping the branding but want customers to think of it as something else and new. Just like

At the company’s analyst event in February of this year, Seagate discussed their lineup of dual-actuator hard drives, a technology dubbed MACH.2. These drives have been shipping since 2019 and Seagate now has over a dozen customers using or trialing the technology. When combined with HAMR, these drives have the potential to both be very

Today Dell Technologies announced updates to its PowerScale line. These updates include a new unit, the Dell EMC PowerScale F900 that is an all-NVMe shelf for the most demanding workloads. The company is also updating the operating system with OneFS 9.2, which aims to bring more performance to the existing F200 and F600 as well

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.

Today Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) announced innovations around its Storage-as-a-Service, through expanding its HPE GreenLake Cloud Services. The company is continuing on its shift to a more cloud operations model that is said to address data from edge-to-cloud. With this in mind, the company has announced its new Data Services Cloud Console, Cloud Data Services,

Today Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH announced the release of the latest version of its server virtualization management platform, Proxmox Virtual Environment (VE) 6.4. With the new release, Proxmox is adding new features such as live-restore and single file restore, support for Ceph Octopus 15.2.11 and Ceph Nautilus 14.2.20, and many enhancements to KVM/QEMU. Of course,

VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (DR) is an on-demand disaster recovery service (DRaaS) that lives in VMware Cloud on AWS. The product is an evolution of the Datrium offering, which VMware acquired last summer. Launched last October, VMware Cloud DR has a very intuitive mission. That is to deliver a simple to use DR solution with