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This extraordinary Android box can store a staggering 32TB storage
Beelink GS-King X - $289.99/£221 from Gearbest (roughly AU$399)
This Android TV box from Beelink comes 4GB of RAM and 64GB of internal storage but it can be outfitted with two 3.5-inch hard disk drives for up to 32TB of total storage. The GS-King X runs Android 9.0 and comes with Google Assistant so you can control it from the comfort of your couch. If you're looking to upgrade your home cinema with the most storage possible, Beelink's GS-King X just might be for you.
Take a network attached storage (NAS) and merge it with a high-end Android thin client and you end up with the GS-King X from Beelink, one of the more adventurous Chinese personal computer companies. The box is not cheap but the combination of the features offer some tantalizing prospects.
As a NAS, it can hold up to two 3.5-inch 16TB hard disk drives (perhaps one from our best NAS hard drives guide) but we suspect it could take 18TB, 20TB HDDs and even 100TB SSDs (the world’s largest storage devices from Nimbus) but this hasn't been tested in real life yet.
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At 165 x 118 x 106mm, it is small enough to be parked behind a TV set or under the couch. The Android box is powered by Android 9.0 (without any clear path to Android 10 or the newly announced Android 11) but it does also feature OpenELEC.
The rest of the feature list includes a hexa-core Amlogic S922X-H processor with a six-core GPU. It supports HDMI 2.1, allowing 4K to be output at 75Hz. There’s a Gigabit Ethernet port, 802.11ac Wi-Fi, four USB ports, a whopping seven audio connectors as well as a card reader and a mysterious “upgrade button”.
The audio subsystem of the device is handled by an ESS DAC-ES9018 audio chip and a RICORE RT6862 op-amp processor. We don’t know if it supports hot swap or RAID-1/0 or whether the fan that cools it (it is powered by a 57W PSU) is loud.
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AWS is down again - everything we know so far
Read MoreAmazon's cloud computing arm, AWS, has suffered yet another outage. This is the fourth time in recent months the service has gone down.
According to data from outage tracking site DownDetector, the problems took hold at around 15:00 GMT / 10:00 ET.
There's nothing on the official AWS status page as yet, so it's unclear precisely which services and regions are affected, but we'll be updating this blog with all the latest information as it comes in.
Services including Slack, GitHub and Peloton are also down, but it's currently unclear whether the issues are related.
This is a developing story...
So far, the number of DownDetector reports is sitting at around 500, which is relatively low. For a major outage affecting multiple regions, for example, we'd expect a few thousand reports at least.
(Image credit: DownDetector) It's worth noting that Slack is also currently suffering an outage and it's not impossible the two incidents are connected. When AWS went down late last year, it took a whole host of sites and services with it, Slack included.
Last time round, the AWS outage was caused by a loss of power in a single data center facility in the US, which caused a host of knock-on problems.
Amazon was quick to restore power to the affected facility, but faced network connectivity challenges that delayed the recovery.
This time, it appears the outage is on a smaller scale. There's still nothing on the AWS status page and very little chatter on Twitter, including from official Amazon accounts.
Since there's nothing on the website or Twitter feeds, we've sent a message to our contacts at AWS asking for further clarification. This may be a small outage, but it's clear something is going on.
We're still in the dark as to precisely what's going on, but it's worth noting that DownDetector is showing a drop-off in the number of reports over the last few minutes.
Does this suggest someone has pulled a few levers and tweaked a few dials to set the issues straight?
(Image credit: DownDetector) Looks like some people are using the AWS and Slack outages as the perfect excuse for a quick powernap...
Slack DownAWS DownMe sleepFebruary 22, 2022
Although the official status page still suggests AWS services are operating as normal, the outage appears to be causing problems across the US, with issues concentrated on the east coast in New York and Boston and in Denver, Colorado.
There are also whispers that the ongoing AWS outage may be causing problems with software development platform GitHub and services from exercise platform Peloton, although this is yet to be confirmed.
(Image credit: Peloton) It looks like the AWS issues are actually getting worse, not better. The number of reports registered on DownDetector has spiked again.
Meanwhile, our AWS contact has promised to investigate and come back to us with more information soon.
In the absence of any concrete information from AWS, we want to hear from you. Pop us a message over Twitter, letting us know where you're located and the precise services affected.
Are you suffering from the latest AWS outage? We want to hear where you're located and which services are down right now.February 22, 2022
The latest updates from DownDetector don't paint a pretty picture, with the number of reports now climbing to almost 800. Perhaps we were wrong to suggest this is just a small-scale outage.
We're still awaiting any kind of communication from AWS, though, which is very unusual. Amazon is usually quick to update the status page. What is going on?
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