Summary of the week of March 13, 2023

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PCIe 4.0 card with 21 M.2 slots

A PCIe 4.0 card has been introduced that comes with 21 M.2 slots capable of housing up to 168TB of SSD memory. It achieves a rate of 31GB/s and is compatible with Intel's defunct Optane memory.

Asrock continues to lower prices

Asrock has been lowering the price of its hardware lately. Now it's the turn of its Arc graphics cards where they see drops of around 20%.

GPU Viewer changes its look

A new version of GPU Viewer (a kind of GPU-Z for Linux) has come out that comes with a renewed look. The new version also shows additional information.

A new immutable distro is born

Xenia is a new immutable distribution based on Gentoo. An immutable distro is a system whose root directory is protected against writing, so the base system cannot be modified.

Counterfeit Samsung 980 Pro

Apparently, counterfeit Samsung 980 Pro SSD drives have entered the Asian market. These drives carry a Maxio controller, manufactured in China. In contrast, Samsung produces its controllers in its own facilities in South Korea.

Windows 11 on an SBC Rock 5B

Someone has managed to run Windows 11 on a Rock 5B, a Raspberry Pi-style board that comes with a Rockchip RK3588 SoC at 1.2GHz.