Neowin News Feed for: Raid

AMD releases Windows 11 25H2 RAID drivers for many chipsets, warns about installation issues

Sayan Sen — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:40:01 +0000

AMD has released a new driver update for RAID that adds support for the latest Windows 11 feature update, version 25H2. However, it has warned about certain installation bugs. Read more...

AMD releases Windows 11 24H2 RAID driver for Ryzen 9000/7000, X870, X670, and B650

Sayan Sen — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 05:50:01 +0000

AMD's latest RAID driver gets support for Windows 11 24H2 and other new features. It also fixes a blue screen of death (BSOD). Read more...

Admin of an anarchist Mastodon server raided by FBI, insecure user data gets seized

Paul Hill — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 20:18:02 +0000

An anarchist-oriented Mastodon server has seen one of its admins raided by the FBI. The admin in question was working with an unencrypted backup of the Mastodon server, which was also seized. Read more...

WD Red Plus 10TB and 6TB NAS HDDs available at discounted prices on Amazon

Fiza Ali — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 16:26:01 +0000

Amazon is offering discounts on a number of devices and components. Particularly, the Western Digital 10TB Red Plus NAS HDD is available at a 44% discount on its original MSRP of $284.99. Read more...

Apple's network reportedly hacked by Melbourne teen, sensitive user data seized

Sharath Ravishankar — Fri, 17 Aug 2018 20:34:01 +0000

A teenager from Melbourne managed to hack into Apple's network and access user accounts and 90GB of secure files, until the Cupertino-based giant contacted the FBI about this data breach. Read more...

NVMe RAID support now available for AMD Threadripper

Boyd Chan — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 03:32:01 +0000

Having been called out as a feature gap by enthusiasts, AMD has now introduced beta support for super-fast, bootable NVMe RAID arrays for the X399 boards supporting Threadripper CPUs. Read more...

Western Digital launches My Book Duo with capacities of up to 20TB, starting at $260

Dreyer Smit — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 21:16:01 +0000

Western Digital launched a series of high capacity drives aimed at professionals and consumers alike, offering up to a massive 20TB of storage that should ease your storage dilemma if you have one. Read more...

Google's Paris office raided by French authorities looking for their taxes

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 24 May 2016 15:00:01 +0000

Early this morning Google's offices in France were raided by local authorities with up to 100 investigators present. A French prosecutor said the raid was part of investigation into tax obligations. Read more...

Bitcoin's alleged 'founder' has home raided by police

Matt Blowes — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 07:14:01 +0000

Outed as the man behind the persona 'Satoshi Nakamoto', Craig Wright is believed to be the founder of Bitcoin. Within hours of his name being published online, Australian police have raided his home. Read more...

The Pirate Bay possibly looking to make a comeback

Usama Jawad — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 12:12:01 +0000

The Pirate Bay was shut down almost two weeks ago with no solid indication of making a return. However, now the website is back online with a waving pirate flag giving some hope to its fans. Read more...

The Pirate Bay crew "couldn't care less" about raid, may still return

Steven Parker — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 10:25:18 +0000

An administrator for The Pirate Bay has now spoken up about the server farm raids that occurred a week ago, and aside from not caring, has hinted that The Pirate Bay could still return. Read more...

Pirate Bay co-founder hopes the site stays closed forever

Usama Jawad — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 17:18:01 +0000

"I've not been a fan of what TPB has become...", these are the words of the site's co-founder Peter Sunde as he expressed his thoughts about why he hopes the site stays closed forever. Read more...

Indonesian police raid Gameloft office mistaking it for a gambling den

Usama Jawad — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 18:02:01 +0000

This Monday, Gameloft's Indonesian branch was unexpectedly raided by the police. Why? The police were under the impression that it was a secret illegal online gambling den. Read more...

Massive raid shuts down more than 400 dark net websites, worldwide arrests

Usama Jawad — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 17:02:02 +0000

Dark net sites hide a user's identity by routing their traffic through a series of computers. They have been associated with illegal activity so many of them are being shut down in a global raid. Read more...

German police searches 121 homes in piracy raid

Usama Jawad — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 18:50:01 +0000

The German police have carried out a massive anti-piracy raid with a considerable amount of storage media confiscated from the suspects of the 121 homes which were raided. Read more...

Microsoft China offices raided again in government antitrust investigation

Andy Weir — Wed, 06 Aug 2014 14:25:33 +0000

Government officials have again raided Microsoft offices in China - as well as the offices of consultancy firm Accenture, to which Microsoft outsources some of its financial work in the country. Read more...

Microsoft office raid by Chinese authorities was about 'unfair trade'

Vlad Dudau — Tue, 29 Jul 2014 09:07:08 +0000

Yesterday's raid on Microsoft's offices by Chinese officials looks to be in regard to an antitrust investigation. The company is being investigated for possibly engaging in 'unfair trade'. Read more...

Microsoft China offices raided, company under government investigation

Andy Weir — Mon, 28 Jul 2014 12:24:21 +0000

Microsoft has confirmed that four of its offices across China have been raided by the government as part of an official investigation, although the exact reasons for the raids remain unclear. Read more...

Police raid home over Twitter parody account

Andy Weir — Fri, 18 Apr 2014 10:15:07 +0000

Police raided a home as part of an investigation into a Twitter parody account that mocked the mayor of Peoria, Illinois, alleging that the account's creator had impersonated a public official. Read more...

Kim Dotcom wins access to evidence found in Megaupload raid

John Callaham — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:40:12 +0000

A judge in New Zealand has ruled the evidence gathered in 2012 by law enforcement in the Megaupload raid can be accessed by its founder Kim Dotcom and his defense team. Read more...

Samsung office raided over LG OLED tech theft allegations

Max Slater-Robins — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 09:19:34 +0000

Korean police have raided Samsung's Display office in connection with allegations that employees had stolen LG OLED technology. Samsung denies that claims, while LG say they didn't inform the police. Read more...

TechSpot: Acer Aspire S5, SSD RAID-Equipped Ultrabook Review

Julio Franco — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:27:38 +0000

In most instances, an SSD is the best component upgrade for any modern system, but Acer took things one step further as the S5 is equipped with two 128GB SSDs in a RAID0 configuration. Read more...

Kim Dotcom's home raid video pops up

John Callaham — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 22:36:46 +0000

A video showing part of the law enforcement raid in January on the New Zealand-based home of MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom has surfaced, showing more of what happened that day. Read more...

MegaUpload founder's asset ruled "null and void" by NZ judge

John Callaham — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:39:19 +0000

A judge has declared that the order to raid the assets of Kim Dotcom, the founder of the file-sharing web site MegaUpload, was handled incorrectly and has now been declared "null and void." Read more...

Megaupload's Skype IM chats obtained by FBI

John Callaham — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:30:00 +0000

The FBI obtained Skype IM chats between employees of Megaupload before the file sharing web site was shut down earlier this month, with some chats indicating issues with its founder Kim Dotcom. Read more...

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom denied bail; stays in jail

John Callaham — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:37:57 +0000

Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom was officially denied bail today and will remain in jail in New Zealand to face charges of online piracy by the US government in connection with Megaupload's shutdown. Read more...

Google's South Korean office raided by police

Brad Sams — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 14:50:13 +0000

Google’s South Korean office has been raided after suspicion that the search giant illegally collected information about its users. The investigation is related to Google’s upcoming street view services and specifically states that the collection... Read more...

FBI raids former DC office of Obama's CIO appointee

Michael Stanclift — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:14:04 +0000

Politico is reporting that the FBI has raided the office of Washington, D.C.'s Chief Technology Officer. The FBI has not commented on why the raid took place but said to Politico that it was part... Read more...

Police raid Allofmp3 'voucher' ring

Tue, 22 May 2007 14:05:34 +0000

Police in London have arrested a 25 year-old man accused of selling vouchers for downloads at Allofmp3.com. The British Phonographic Industry said that the man is believed to be an agent for the Russian music... Read more...

New Apple Xserve RAID Details Leaked

Mon, 22 Jan 2007 21:17:52 +0000

A pre-production unit of Apple's upcoming Xserve RAID enterprise level server has leaked. The new Xserve stays is still an aluminum brushed machine like its predecessors, but it uses Serial ATA (SATA) drives instead of... Read more...

Is There a Flash Memory RAID in Your Future?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:43:00 +0000

Opinion: Hard disk advocates have long looked down their noses at flash storage. But enterprise storage pros may be thinking differently about solid state, even (gasp! for RAID. Flash memory is catching the notice of... Read more...

Antitrust Regulators Raid Intel Offices

Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:39:57 +0000

Thanks to forum member jerry for also posting in Neowin's BPN European antitrust lawyers raided Intel offices across Europe merely two weeks after its chief rival, Advanced Micro Devices, filed a multi-billion... Read more...

New iBooks, xServe RAID 5.6TB, PowerMac G5 1.8GHz released

Tue, 19 Oct 2004 14:50:03 +0000

Apple has released a bevy of revised systems today- iBooks: 1.25GHz/1.33GHz with Airport extreme and Combo, a xServe RAID model with 5.6TB of storage and a single CPU PowerMac G5 1.8GHz.... Read more...

US Agents raid p2p homes

Thu, 26 Aug 2004 10:46:06 +0000

US Attorney General John Ashcroft reported that US agents had raided the homes of 5 people suspected of illegally trading copyrighted material. Agents raided homes in Texas, Wisconsin and New York, and seized computers involved.... Read more...

Kazaa Office Raid Upheld

Thu, 04 Mar 2004 15:38:52 +0000

An Australian judge has refused to set aside the Anton Piller order brought against Kazaa owner Sharman Networks, but says that the material seized must be held by independent lawyers until access can be negotiated.... Read more...

Problem hits Western Digital IDE RAID arrays

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 21 Oct 2003 11:34:26 +0000

IF YOU'RE finding Western Digital EIDE drives drop out of an IDE RAID array after a few days, the firm appears to have the answer. It might only affect you if you have drives shipped... Read more...

Via confirms single chip Serial ATA RAID controller

Steven Parker — Fri, 07 Mar 2003 21:47:09 +0000

CHIP FIRM Via has managed to integrate Serial ATA (S-ATA), RAID and a parallel ATA-133 interface in one semiconductor. The VT 6420 includes two S-ATA channels for four devices, while the Parallel ATA channel supports... Read more...

US Customs Raid Boston Software Firm

Sat, 07 Dec 2002 00:54:58 +0000

Cheers |CEMAN & Fotix The main lobby of software company Ptech Inc. sits locked and empty after a U.S. Customs Service raid on the company's corporate headquarters, December 6, 2002 in... Read more...

3Ware Escalade 8500-4 Serial ATA/150 RAID Controller

Wed, 14 Aug 2002 18:53:44 +0000

Just caught this huge review of the controller at GamePC. Those who follow the storage industry know that 3Ware is one of the most respected and well-liked companies in the industry. They have... Read more...

Western Digital 80GB (WD800JB) Hard Drive in RAID Review

Daniel Fleshbourne — Sat, 03 Aug 2002 16:34:03 +0000

DeviantPC has posted a review of 2 Western Digital 80GB (WD800JB) Hard Drives in RAID-0 configuration. "They are also the first to introduce groundbreaking technologies in the lower echelons of their products... Read more...