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ASUSTOR Newsletter August 2024 Issue 227 |
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Sometimes, data storage isn’t all that appears to be. You may have noticed that volume capacities reported by ADM appear lower than the capacity indicated on hard drive labels and advertisements. This is because hard drive manufacturers use decimal measurements to calculate storage space, that is measurements use units based on a power of 10, (1 TB = 1000 GB) while some operating systems measure data storage with units based on a power of 2 (1 TB = 1024 GB). Apple devices express data storage on units based on the power of 10, while Windows, despite using decimal prefixes, measures with units based on the power of 2 measurements and this causes discrepancies in the expression of data storage. Numerous other operating systems like most Linux distributions use binary prefixes; kibi, mebi, gibi… instead. These are equal to expressions based on the power of 2.
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Conversion formula:
Decimal capacity / 1,048,576 = Binary MB capacity
Decimal capacity / 1,073,741,824 = Binary GB capacity
Decimal capacity / 1,099,511,627,776 = Binary TB capacity
Conversion example:
A 500 GB hard drive is approximately 500,000,000,000 bytes (500 x 1,000,000,000).
The binary GB calculation is 500,000,000,000 / 1,073,741,824 = 465.661287308, so a 500 GB hard drive will appear as 465 GB on a Windows operating system.
A 500 GiB volume on most Linux distributions is equal to a 500 GB volume on Windows.
Comparison of common hard drive capacities:
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Certain versions of Docker Engine have a security vulnerability that could allow an attacker to bypass authorization plugins (AuthZ) under specific circumstances. The base likelihood of this being exploited is low.
CVE-2024-41110 will not affect ASUSTOR products with ADM 4.1 onward which the Docker Engine is installed, unless the users install AuthZ plugin and use it by themselves. Updates with new Docker Engine version will be released as soon as possible.
- Docker Engine v27.1.1.r1 has been updated on the App Central for ADM 4.1 and above to resolve the issues.
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Make Efficient Use of Idle Bays
ASUSTOR designs a variety of models with different numbers of drive bays to meet the different needs for storage capacity. Install Drive Utilities from App Central to use one or more empty drive bays to perform maintenance on hard drives including, but not limited to secure erasure of a drive and drive cloning.
System Requirements: AS31, 32, 61, 62, 63, 64, Nimbustor, Nimbustor Gen2, Lockerstor, Lockerstor Gen2, Lockerstor Pro, Flashstor, AS6004U, Xpanstor 4
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ASUSTOR’s AS5402T has again been selected as the Editor’s Choice by PCMAG. ASUSTOR this year has launched several highly acclaimed flagship NAS models that include but are not limited to the AS5402T. In a first for the industry, the AS5402T comes with four M.2 slots for NVMe SSDs to ensure maximum speed and capacity for that speed. With this in mind, the AS5402T naturally won the website’s recognition with its outstanding file transfer performance and powerful configuration. After achieving a record 4.5 stars, it’s no wonder the ASUSTOR AS5402T is the dual-slot king. ASUSTOR's commitment to constant self-challenge, ASUSTOR NAS is also the first NAS manufacturer in the industry to support 24TB NAS dedicated hard drives, meeting the needs of high-speed transmission and high-load storage environments ahead of time. |
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