Summary of the week of February 17, 2025

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100Tb Disks for 2030

Western Digital has announced 44TB drives for next year and 100TB drives for 2030. The announcement does not mention the cost per Gb and seeing how parsimonious this segment has been in recent years, there are few reasons for optimism.

RTX50 Abandons 32-bit PhysX

The newly launched RTX50 series has stopped supporting PhysX for 32-bit titles, which applies to about 50 games released between 2007 to 2013.

Reduction in DDR 3 and 4 Production

Some of the largest manufacturers of dynamic RAM have said they will stop producing DDR 3 and 4 memories at the end of this year to focus on the production of DDR 5 and HBM.

Pi-hole v6 Available

The sixth version of Pi-hole comes with a new API and a web server integrated into the pihole-FTL binary, which means that it is no longer necessary to install lighttpd or PHP. In addition, the interface has undergone significant changes.

EPYC 9534

Today we welcome the new king of the test bench. The EPYC 9534, an AM4 processor with 64 cores, 324Mb of cache, a TDP of 280W and twelve memory channels, has achieved the first position in the overall ranking with 2.6 million points. Special mention to the memory performance where it more than doubles the score of the second in the list.