TECH NEWS

CrystalDiskInfo Fights Fake Samsung SSD Market With New Clone Detection Feature

https://hothardware.com/contentimages/NewsItem/70637/content/16x9_2133x1200_highres-samsung-990-pro-ssd.jpg

With a massive influx of terrifyingly convincing counterfeit Samsung 990 Pro drives hitting third-party marketplaces earlier this year, buying a high-end SSD lately has felt a bit like navigating a minefield. Now, one of the most essential pieces of software in any PC builder's arsenal is getting a killer upgrade to help fight back. Noriyuki "hiyohiyo" Miyazaki, the developer behind the popular storage diagnostic tool CrystalDiskInfo, announced on Xwitter that the software's latest update will include a dedicated clone detection feature specifically aimed at sniffing out fake Samsung drives.

For years, counterfeit storage was easy to spot. The drives would immediately choke under the lightest workloads or report wildly inaccurate capacities, obviously marking them as fake. The recent wave of fake Samsung 990 Pros is a different beast entirely. These drives utilize aggressive SLC caching and third-party Maxio controllers to actively spoof early sequential read and write tests....

Copyright of this story solely belongs to hothardware.com. To see the full text click HERE

Read more

https://cms.therecord.media/uploads/huawei_111c759701.jpg

Sources: an attack exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in Huawei router software caused a three-hour nationwide telecoms outage in Luxembourg in 2025

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
https://images.ft.com/v3/image/raw/https%3A%2F%2Fd1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net%2Fproduction%2Fda568d35-97c5-45be-aec6-7a9a96ee8d78.jpg?source=next-article&fit=scale-down&quality=highest&wi...

Filing and sources: PE firm Hg has spun out €500M worth of assets from its €19B software group Visma, whose London IPO remains shelved amid the “SaaSpocalypse”

Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data