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What has firmware got to do with pop rock, you ask? That's the question that crossed a security researcher's mind as he analyzed Kingston's firmware and stumbled upon the lyrics of a popular Coldplay song buried deep within it. The researcher, surprised by this finding, reached out to BleepingComputer disclosing the details of the firmware version-and the Coldplay song.
What has firmware got to do with pop rock, you ask? That's the question that crossed a security researcher's mind as he analyzed Kingston's firmware and stumbled upon the lyrics of a popular Coldplay song buried deep within it. The researcher, surprised by this finding, reached out to BleepingComputer disclosing the details of the firmware version-and the Coldplay song.
The attack models are for drives with flex capacity features and target a hidden area on the device called over-provisioning, which is widely used by SSD makers these days for performance optimization on NAND flash-based storage systems. One attack modeled by researchers at Korea University in Seoul targets an invalid data area with non-erased information that sits between the usable SSD space and the over-provisioning area, and whose size depends on the two.
The attack models are for drives with flex capacity features and target a hidden area on the device called over-provisioning, which is widely used by SSD makers these days for performance optimization on NAND flash-based storage systems. Flex capacity is a feature in SSDs from Micron Technology that enables storage devices to automatically adjust the sizes of raw and user-allocated space to achieve better performance by absorbing write workload volumes.
Western Digital has confirmed that it changed the NAND flash memory in one of its most popular M.2 NVMe SSD models, the WD Blue SN550, which crippled writing speeds according to several reports, leading to a 50% performance hit. The company says that, in the future, it will also introduce a new model number when making any hardware changes to its products that impact performance.
To accelerate the overall data flow of PCs, increase the storage throughput, and further enhance data security of the hard disks, disk arrays were invented. To meet the demand for SSD security and reliability, the FORESEE SSD R&D team launched the P709 PCIe SSD, which, empowered by the TCG-OPAL 2.0 and Pyrite 2.0 encryption functions, ensures data security and avoids data leakage.
It sounds like a "Dog ate my homework" excuse for the cloud age, but Euro-cloud Scaleway says one of its solid-state disks was stolen from a truck, turned up in the hands of a YouTuber, and has now made its way back home. A Saturday post by CEO Yann Lechelle revealed that over a year ago, a disk was stolen while in transit between two Scaleway data centres.
Innodisk announces its 112-Layer 3D TLC SSDs along with the highest capacity up to 8TB. The 112-layer SSDs introduces a complete product line including the SATA 3TG6-P and 3TE7 series, as well as the PCIe Gen3x4 and Gen4x4 series. The new TLC SSD Series marks Innodisk's continued development with 3D NAND design, bringing better efficiency, faster performance, and increased capacity.
Virtium introduced the second generation StorFly Series 3 M.2 NVMe SSD platform. They complement Virtium's recently announced Series 3 CFexpress removable SSDs. "The new StorFly Series 3 M.2 NVMe SSDs utilize the latest process technology and industrial-grade 3D TLC NAND flash combined with advanced power and thermal management," said Scott Phillips, Vice President of Marketing at Virtium.
Infortrend launched U.2 SSD solution for EonStor CS scale-out NAS. The new all-flash CS 4014U satisfies high performance-demanding requirements for high throughput and low latency workloads, such as media & entertainment, HPC, Big Data, etc. CS provides complete data protection and high availability to avoid data loss and system downtime caused by disk damage or system failures.