Hacker News with Generative AI: Storage

Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful (wired.com)
“Obviously” is a dangerous word, even in scenarios that seem simple. Suppose, for instance, you need to do an important computation. You get to choose between two computers that are almost identical, except that one has an extra hard drive full of precious family photos. It’s natural to assume that the two options are equally good—that an extra drive with no space remaining won’t aid your computation.
Colossus: How we deliver SSD performance at HDD prices (cloud.google.com)
From YouTube and Gmail to BigQuery and Cloud Storage, almost all of Google’s products depend on Colossus, our foundational distributed storage system.
The Lego Storage Guide (brickarchitect.com)
This in-depth guide helps you understand your LEGO collection, find the best way to organize your LEGO bricks, and discover the best LEGO storage for your home and budget. It also includes recommendations for displaying and storing your LEGO minifigures.
Upcoming changes to how live videos are stored (facebook.com)
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IO Devices and Latency (planetscale.com)
Non-volatile storage is a cornerstone of modern computer systems. Every modern photo, email, bank balance, medical record, and other critical pieces of data are kept on digital storage devices, often replicated many times over for added durability.
RPMB, a secret place inside the eMMC (sergioprado.blog)
Do you know there is a dedicated partition in the eMMC called RPMB that makes it possible to store data with integrity and authenticity support?
Rockstor: Open-source multi-arch NAS Built on OpenSUSE (rockstor.com)
Rockstor as a Cloud and Storage platform enables hackers, makers/re-distributors, and DIYers to build completely custom solutions.
Apple's 64GB Era Is Over – MacRumors (macrumors.com)
All of the iPhone and iPad models that are currently part of Apple's lineup now start with at least 128GB of storage, marking the end of the 64GB era.
A case for QLC SSDs in the data center (engineering.fb.com)
The growth of data and need for increased power efficiency are leading to innovative storage solutions.
SanDisk puts petabyte SSDs on the roadmap, has yet to reveal release date (tomshardware.com)
Terabytes Encoded Within a Millimeter-Sized Crystal (bioengineer.org)
In a groundbreaking study, researchers from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have made significant strides toward enhancing the efficiency of classical computer memory by harnessing the properties of crystal defects.
SanDisk's New High Bandwidth Flash Memory Enables 4TB of VRAM on GPUs (tomshardware.com)
Allocator Hints for Btrfs (tnonline.net)
Allocator hints were introduced in a series of patches for Btrfs, allowing users to configure the chunk allocator to prioritise specific devices for metadata or data allocation.
Setting up a Linux writecache as a RAM disk (2019) (admin-magazine.com)
Kicking write I/O operations into overdrive with the Linux device mapper writecache.
Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours (tomshardware.com)
Migrating Away from Bcachefs (sesse.net)
Pretty much exactly a year ago, I posted about how I was trying out this bcachefs thing, being cautiously optimistic (but reminding you to keep backups). Now I'm going the other way; I've converted my last bcachefs filesystem to XFS, and I don't intend to look at it again in the near future.
Seagate unveils 36TB HAMR hard drive: Mozaic 3 extended (tomshardware.com)
Seagate smashes largest HDD world record with 36TB hard drive (techradar.com)
ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion (github.com/openzfs)
We are excited to announce the release of OpenZFS 2.3.0.
Imaging mounted disk volumes under duress (2021) (benjojo.co.uk)
Backups are critical. If you are lucky and organised you have a set of useful backup primitives, such as Point in Time snapshots on your Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), your disk array controller, or volume manager. However there always seems to be some critical machine in my life that does not fall into these buckets.
Apple Intelligence in iOS 18.2 almost doubles the storage it needs (9to5mac.com)
Apple Intelligence arrived on compatible iPhones, iPads, and Macs via a staggered rollout. There were new features launched in both iOS 18.1 and iOS 18.2. Now, we know exactly how much those additional features are costing in terms of iPhone storage space.
Show HN: Decentralized Email and Storage (privacyeverywhere.net)
PCIe trouble with 4TB Crucial T500 NVMe SSD for >1 power cycle on MSI PRO X670-P (level1techs.com)
Uncached Buffered I/O Aims to Be Ready for Linux 6.14 with Big Gains (phoronix.com)
Linux I/O expert and storage expert Jens Axboe of Meta is hoping to have the uncached buffered I/O support squared away for Linux 6.14 -- a feature that's been a half-decade in the making.
Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster? (eclecticlight.co)
They might all connect to the same ports, but Thunderbolt 3, 4, 5, USB 3 and USB4 are disturbingly different, and few deliver the performance that their up-tos promise. From the figures that I see here at the moment, the most reliably performant in widely available products is USB4, but that’s not supported by Thunderbolt 3 on Intel Macs.
Intel Arc B580 with two M.2 slots, Maxsun offers storage expansion for SSDs (tomshardware.com)
How Proxmox VE shreds your SSDs – with details (reddit.com)
Time has come to revisit the initial piece on inexplicable writes that even empty Proxmox VE cluster makes, especially we have already covered what we are looking at: a completely virtual filesystem 1 with a structure that is completely generated on-the-fly, some of which never really exists in any persistent state - that is what lies behind the mountpoint of /etc/pve and what the process of pmxcfs created the illusion of.
Our first new Framework Laptop 16 Expansion Bay module (frame.work)
Today we’re launching the first new module for the Expansion Bay system in Framework Laptop 16: the Dual M.2 Adapter, enabling you to add additional storage drives or other high speed devices.
Synology DS923 vs. FreeBSD with ZFS (blogsystem5.substack.com)
My interest in storage is longstanding—I loved playing with different file systems in my early Unix days and then I worked on Google’s and Microsoft’s distributed storage solutions—and, about four years ago, I started running a home-grown NAS leveraging FreeBSD and its excellent ZFS support. I first hosted the server on a PowerMac G5 and then upgraded it to an overkill 72-core ThinkStation that I snapped second-hand for a great price.
Ente Photo Storage – Reliability and Replication Architecture (ente.io)
The sibling of security is reliability.