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Today's Risky Biz newsletter (thanks @campuscodi) has a really good analysis of the growing influencer problem to national security. -
Serious question: Is anyone making a list of where it may be possible to purchase a *new* car that isn't just spyware on wheels?@briankrebs Factory Five.
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44 drive storage chassis for $200, originally developed for a storage-based cryptocurrency https://www.ebay.com/itm/326164712339@Infoseepage @SwiftOnSecurity Yeah, refurb helium-filled datacenter drives are extremely reliable and pretty cheap. 12 TB seems to be the current best price:capacity ratio. I got a pile of 12 TB HGST Ultrastars earlier this year for about $80 each.
For use in an enclosure, you have to watch out for the āPower Disableā feature. It repurposed a pin in the power connector from 3.3v supply to the drive to instead *reboot the drive controller* when itās pulled high. The idea is to let datacenter operators reboot drives remotely without needing someone to go pull the drive and reinsert it. When you plug a drive which has this feature into a backplane which predates it, the driveās controller will continually reboot which manifests as the drive never spinning up.
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44 drive storage chassis for $200, originally developed for a storage-based cryptocurrency https://www.ebay.com/itm/326164712339@SwiftOnSecurity With 44 drives and that weird setup, Iād probably use draid2:8d:44c:4s. You lose four drives off the top as distributed spares, then the remaining 40 are split into groups of 8 data plus 2 fault tolerance for 4 groups x 8 drives per group x 12 TB per drive => 384 TB usable before compression.
