Ars Technica: Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: Analyzing their SSD activity. “Now sites have a new way to spy on their visitors: measuring subtle interactions with their solid-state drives. The technique, named FROST (fingerprinting remotely using OPFS-based SSD timing), allows sites to monitor other sites a visitor is viewing and what apps are open on their devices.”

Thinking about getting a hard drive dedicated for the purpose of off-site backup, encrypting it, and then opening a safety deposit box at the bank and keeping it there except to update said backup.  Thoughts?  I'm on NixOS, if that matters.

#AskFedi #Encryption #BackupYourData #NixOS #HardDrives

Tom’s Hardware: Internet archival sites struggling to preserve the internet because of skyrocketing hard drive prices due to the AI boom — Wayback Machine and Wikimedia punished by stratospheric storage pricing and stricter anti-scraping measures blocking the wrong bots. “The internet is getting harder to archive because the AI boom has caused a storage crisis, with both NAND and mechanical […]

A sneak peek inside the glorious life of a high-tech Data Center Engineer - HINT - it ain't that glorious!

Decommissioning Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Sierra Supercomputer. https://www.wired.com/story/why-sierra-the-supercomputer-had-to-die/ #Computing #SuperComputer #Sierra #CPU #GPU #Dehydration #LawrenceLivermore #USGov #Simulations #Recycling #Linux #ClassifiedData #Data #OS #HardDrives

#Retro PC site - I like the basic layout
https://theretroweb.com/

▶️ #Motherboard, #BIOS, #Chips, #CPUs, #chipsets
#Expansion #Cards,
#HardDrives, #HD
#Optical #drives #CD,
#Floppy & #Tape #Drives #FDD.
#Drivers & #Software,
#IO ports,
Expansion #slots,
#Sockets,
#Power #Connectors,
#Manufacturers

I write insane amounts of data to my scratch drives (AI models, VMs, you name it). Currently, that is an SSD. I have worn a few below 100%. And since I don't have enough kidneys to sell for more SSDs, I'm trying something kind of retro.

I ordered a USB 3.2 DAS, and will load it with 4x 1TB WD VelociRaptor HDDs. This in RAID0 should give me near 1 gigabyte per second, plenty for the purpose. HDDs don't "wear out" from writing. (EDIT: as fast).

And the sound will be splendid 😁 Stay tuned.

EDIT: It's working fantastic! https://tech.lgbt/@Lydie/116307176095683365

#data #datastorage #harddrives #ssd #storage #swap #scratch