Cloud storage service Backblaze released its drive stability report for Q2 2021 today, and it looks like the quick rise and apparent fall of storage-based cryptocurrency Chia hardly affected the company this quarter, and potentially won’t going forward thanks to a “leveling off” of demand. Despite boasting 181,464 drives across its four data centers and…
Although far from being one of the best SSDs, the Viper VPN100 is a solid SSD for the money. Unfortunately, the drive recently made the Reddit headlines because a consumer discovered that it arrived with different components than originally advertised. Patriot has provided an official statement to Tom’s Hardware explaining the reason behind the component…
Taiwan started a rotational electricity blackout across the country on Thursday following a major incident at a coal-fired power plant in southern Taiwan that caused its shutdown. The outages have not affected TSMC, the world’s largest contract maker of chips, other foundries, and DRAM makers. However, chip packaging houses had to halt operations briefly. Taiwan’s…
