Hacker News with Generative AI: Storage

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.

Open Source, NAS, Linux, Storage

5 points by thunderbong 2 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Apple, Storage, Mobile Devices, Tech News

34 points by rbanffy 2 days ago | 4 comments

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.

Data Centers, SSDs, Storage, Power Efficiency

37 points by loeg 2 days ago | 0 comments

SanDisk puts petabyte SSDs on the roadmap, has yet to reveal release date (tomshardware.com)

Storage, Hardware, SSDs, Roadmaps

5 points by LorenDB 18 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Storage, Nanotechnology, Materials Science, Physics

27 points by geox 20 days ago | 7 comments

SanDisk's New High Bandwidth Flash Memory Enables 4TB of VRAM on GPUs (tomshardware.com)

Hardware, Memory, Storage, Flash Memory

23 points by LorenDB 21 days ago | 4 comments

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.

Btrfs, Storage, Operating Systems, Linux

27 points by GalaxySnail 28 days ago | 16 comments

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.

Linux, Performance Optimization, Storage, Operating Systems, RAM Disk

26 points by adityamaru 34 days ago | 2 comments

Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours (tomshardware.com)

Hardware, Storage, Data Recovery

383 points by 6581 37 days ago | 218 comments

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.

Linux, File Systems, Storage, Operating Systems

4 points by amaccuish 43 days ago | 0 comments

Seagate unveils 36TB HAMR hard drive: Mozaic 3 extended (tomshardware.com)

Hard Drives, Storage, Technology, Hardware

5 points by rbanffy 44 days ago | 0 comments

Seagate smashes largest HDD world record with 36TB hard drive (techradar.com)

Hardware, Storage, Data Storage, World Records

25 points by airhangerf15 45 days ago | 11 comments

ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion (github.com/openzfs)
We are excited to announce the release of OpenZFS 2.3.0.

New Releases, Software, Storage, Data Management, Open Source

383 points by scrp 52 days ago | 320 comments

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.

Data Recovery, Backup, Storage

77 points by yamrzou 54 days ago | 14 comments

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.

Apple, iOS, Software Updates, Storage

7 points by dabinat 62 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: Decentralized Email and Storage (privacyeverywhere.net)

Decentralization, Email, Storage, Privacy

10 points by userisatester 66 days ago | 6 comments

PCIe trouble with 4TB Crucial T500 NVMe SSD for >1 power cycle on MSI PRO X670-P (level1techs.com)

Storage, Hardware, Troubleshooting, SSDs, Motherboards

167 points by transpute 69 days ago | 105 comments

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.

Linux, Operating Systems, Performance, Storage, I/O

3 points by LinuxBender 70 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Storage, Hardware, Performance, Thunderbolt, USB

105 points by zdw 74 days ago | 123 comments

Intel Arc B580 with two M.2 slots, Maxsun offers storage expansion for SSDs (tomshardware.com)

Intel, Graphics Cards, Hardware, SSDs, Storage

5 points by haunter 75 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Virtualization, Storage, Proxmox, SSDs, Linux

9 points by free-pmx 76 days ago | 4 comments

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.

Hardware, Laptops, New Releases, Expansion Bay, Storage

37 points by OuterVale 80 days ago | 5 comments

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.

Storage, Operating Systems, Home Servers, FreeBSD, ZFS

18 points by jmmv 81 days ago | 11 comments

Ente Photo Storage – Reliability and Replication Architecture (ente.io)
The sibling of security is reliability.

Storage, Architecture, Reliability, Data Centers

4 points by nathan_phoenix 81 days ago | 0 comments

Pi modder successfully adds M.2 slot to Pi 500 (jeffgeerling.com)
As I briefly mentioned yesterday, someone mentioned in this blog's comments a successful M.2 socket installation on the empty header on the Pi 500 (something I attempted, rather poorly!). With a few added components, and 3.3V supplied to a pad on the bottom via a bench power supply, the M.2 slot works just fine, allowing the use of NVMe SSDs or other PCIe devices.

Raspberry Pi, Hardware, DIY, Modification, Storage

98 points by avipars 82 days ago | 41 comments

Show HN: Disk Prices on eBay (unli.xyz)
This is an Enterprise Drive;Not for Home Use. 100% Guaranteed;30 Day Seller Warranty w/ Hassle-Free Returns for any reason. We perform Sentinel Drive Analysis and a DoD 5220.22 M Data Wipe on all drives.

Hardware, Storage, eBay, Data Security

15 points by xk3 82 days ago | 0 comments

Maxsun makes a GPU with two built-in M.2 SSD ports (tomshardware.com)

Hardware, SSD, GPUs, Storage, Technology

9 points by LorenDB 89 days ago | 0 comments

Mistakes that will kill your SSD early (pcworld.com)
If you want your SSDs to last many years without issue, you have to stop doing these things.

Hardware, SSD, Storage, Computer Maintenance

7 points by amichail 92 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: WeSQL – An Innovative MySQL That Stores All Data on S3 (github.com/wesql)
WeSQL is an innovative MySQL distribution that adopts a compute-storage separation architecture, with storage backed by S3 (and S3-compatible systems). It can run on any cloud, ensuring no vendor lock-in.

Database, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Storage, MySQL

14 points by west0n 101 days ago | 5 comments

S3 Express Append has issues (astradot.com)
AWS is clearly gearing up to make S3 Express a potential alternative to EBS disks. Like EBS, S3 Express is single zone. Earlier this year, AWS added the conditional write primitive to both S3 and S3 Express. Now it has released the ability to append to objects in S3 Express.

AWS, Storage, S3, Cloud Computing, Performance

14 points by pdeva1 103 days ago | 4 comments