Hacker News with Generative AI: Storage

What is "MicroSD Express," and why is it mandatory for the Nintendo Switch 2? (arstechnica.com)
The microSD Express standard has existed for a long time, but it hasn't seen wide adoption in a mass-market consumer device. Enter Nintendo's new Switch 2.

Gaming, Technology, Hardware, Nintendo, Storage

3 points by kwiktrip 12 hours ago | 0 comments

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.

Computer Hardware, Performance Optimization, Technology, Storage

5 points by SethMurphy 4 days ago | 2 comments

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.

Cloud Computing, Storage, Google, Hardware, Distributed Systems

7 points by caution 8 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Lego, Organization, Storage, Home Improvement

6 points by Tomte 9 days ago | 0 comments

Upcoming changes to how live videos are stored (facebook.com)
It looks like you were misusing this feature by going too fast. You’ve been temporarily blocked from using it.

Facebook, Live Video, Social Media, Storage

24 points by EGreg 12 days ago | 2 comments

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.

Storage, Hardware, Latency

443 points by milar 21 days ago | 153 comments

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?

eMMC, Storage, Security, Hardware, Embedded Systems

18 points by todsacerdoti 23 days ago | 1 comments

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 29 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

35 points by rbanffy 30 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 30 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 45 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 48 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 49 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 56 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 62 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 65 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 71 days ago | 0 comments

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

Hard Drives, Storage, Technology, Hardware

5 points by rbanffy 72 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 72 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 80 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 82 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 90 days ago | 1 comments

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

Decentralization, Email, Storage, Privacy

10 points by userisatester 94 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 97 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 98 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 101 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 103 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 104 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 108 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 109 days ago | 11 comments