Storage

Internal Hard Disk Drive Components Visible MeitY Hits Snooze on Hard Drives: Standalone HDD Registration Now Starts 1 May 2027

India has pushed back the date from which standalone hard disk drives must carry BIS registration. In a Gazette notification, S.O. 5689(E), dated 16 October 2026, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) says the implementation date of its May order "stands extended to 1st May, 2027". The earlier date was 5 November 2026. If you build NAS boxes, homelab servers or CCTV storage, or buy and…

Maker Builds an Offline Wikipedia Using Maker Builds an Offline Wikipedia Using an ESP32 Board and Its Built-In microSD Card Slot to Store Data

Alun Morris’s Offline-Wikipedia using ESP32 is an open-source project that turns the inexpensive ESP32-2432S028, commonly called the “Cheap Yellow Display” or CYD, into a standalone Wikipedia reader. The hardware combines an ESP32 microcontroller with a 320×240 ILI9341 color display, an XPT2046 touchscreen, and a microSD card interface. Instead of depending on Wi-Fi or cloud services, the…

Four High-Speed Interconnect Solutions from Amphenol Amphenol's Interconnect Solutions: A Technical Overview of ExaMAX, HD Express, AirMax VS, and XCede

Modern server and data center design places increasing demands on the physical interconnect layer. At 112 Gbps and beyond, connectors are no longer treated as simple passive components; their design has a direct impact on crosstalk, impedance continuity, and mechanical integrity across the system. The following provides a technical overview of four Amphenol interconnect product families…

Nvidia Unveils Rubin AI Platform At CES 2026 NVIDIA Targets About 90% Reduction in Token Generation Costs With Rubin Platform

At CES 2026, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presented Rubin, the company’s first “extreme-codesigned” AI platform. The new platform should reduce token-generation costs by roughly 90% versus its previous platform. This Blackwell successor, now in production, is named after astronomer Vera Rubin.

The platform includes Rubin GPUs capable of 50 petaflops of NVFP4 inference, Vera CPUs designed for…

Voice Activation Office Assistant DigiKey Voice-Activated Office Assistant

Hello everyone! In this project, we will create a voice-activated office assistant using the Maixduino board and generative AI technology.

The basic idea is simple: when the user asks a question using the Maixduino board's microphone, the device will capture the question, send it to a knowledge base (using basic data from the DigiKey…

OpenFlex Data24 3200 NVMe-oF JBOF/Storage Enhanced NVMe-oF Deployment: Western Digital's Cutting-Edge Storage Offerings

Western Digital has unveiled a suite of innovative solutions designed to redefine data centre storage capabilities. The upgraded OpenFlex Data24 3200 NVMe-oF JBOF/Storage Platform, coupled with the new RapidFlex A2000 and C2000 NVMe-oF fabric bridge devices (FBDs), along with the Ultrastar DC SN655 PCIe Gen 4.0 dual-port NVMe SSD, are set…

How to build Raspberry Pi NAS Server using Samba How to build Raspberry Pi NAS Server using Samba

Raspberry Pi is the pocket sized computer having almost all the feature of a normal computer including USB port, LAN port, audio/video output, HDMI port etc. It also has inbuilt Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity which makes it perfect candidate to build various online servers like Webserver, Media server, Print Server, Plex server etc. So here we…

1TB embedded Universal Flash Storage (eUFS) from Samsung Electronics Samsumg Introduced Industry's First 1TB Embedded Universal Flash Storage for Next Generation Mobile Applications

Four years earlier, Samsung Electronics introduced the first eUFS solution (Embedded Universal Flash storage solution) with a 128-GB Flash Storage for mobile phones. Now, considering the demand of storage capacity in premium notebook PC and other mobile devices, Samsung has passed the anticipated terabyte threshold by introducing 1-TB eUFS 2.1 today, which it claims to be…

16 Gigabit GDDR6 Graphic Card Samsung Electronics Starts Producing Industry’s First 16-Gigabit GDDR6 for Advanced Graphics Systems

Now get double speed and density for graphics processing in comparison to currently available GDDR5 through 16GB GDDR6 

 

Samsung going to launch 16-gigabit (Gb) Graphics Double Data Rate 6 (GDDR6) memory with 18Gbps of high speed, which can be useful for high-level…