Hacker News with Generative AI: Storage

Seagate claims spinning disks beat SSDs on carbon footprint (blocksandfiles.com)
A Seagate Decarbonizing Data report says energy usage is a top concern for more than half of business leaders and better use of disks is a wise datacenter choice.

Data Centers, Sustainability, Hardware, Storage

50 points by rbanffy 4 days ago | 71 comments

Toshiba says Europe doesn't need 24TB HDDs, witholds beefy models from region (tomshardware.com)

Hardware, Storage, Europe, Toshiba

26 points by taubek 6 days ago | 13 comments

FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart (theregister.com)
TrueNAS is alive and well, but iXsystems has shifted its focus to the Linux-based SCALE edition. For the FreeBSD faithful left clinging to CORE, a new contender is limbering up: zVault.

FreeBSD, Operating Systems, Storage

19 points by rodrigo975 10 days ago | 0 comments

Achieving 11M IOPS and 66 GiB/s IO on a Single Threadripper Workstation (2021) (tanelpoder.com)
TL;DR Modern disks are so fast that system performance bottleneck shifts to RAM access and CPU. With up to 64 cores, PCIe 4.0 and 8 memory channels, even a single-socket AMD ThreadRipper Pro workstation makes a hell of a powerful machine - if you do it right!

Workstation Performance, Hardware, AMD, Threadripper, Storage

17 points by tanelpoder 17 days ago | 0 comments

Multiboard 3D Printed Storage System (multiboard.io)
Combining the BEST organization systems into ONE intricate design, with 3349 parts so far!

3D Printing, Storage, Design

18 points by 3dsnano 22 days ago | 3 comments

You can finally buy a Thunderbolt 5 SSD (theverge.com)
Following the arrival of the first Thunderbolt 5 cables last July and the first Thunderbolt 5 dock last September, it might finally be time to start upgrading your external storage to take advantage of the increased performance.

Hardware, Storage, Technology, Thunderbolt

6 points by teleforce 26 days ago | 4 comments

Adata Premier Extreme SD 8.0 Express card delivers up to 1600MB/s read speed (cnx-software.com)
ADATA Technology has launched the industry’s first SD 8.0 Express specification memory card with the Premier Extreme SD 8.0 Express memory card delivering up to 1,600 and 1,200 MB/s read and write speeds using a PCIe Gen3 x2 interface and the NVMe transfer protocol.

Hardware, Memory Cards, New Releases, Storage

4 points by awiesenhofer 31 days ago | 1 comments

First SD Express 8.0 memory card from Adata hits 1.6 GB/s read speeds (tomshardware.com)

Storage, Hardware, Memory Cards, Speed, New Releases

4 points by ksec 32 days ago | 3 comments

Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives (arstechnica.com)
Popular NAS-maker Synology has confirmed and slightly clarified a policy that appeared on its German website earlier this week: Its "Plus" tier of devices, starting with the 2025 series, will require Synology-branded hard drives for full compatibility, at least at first.

Hardware, NAS, Storage, Synology

5 points by chha 33 days ago | 0 comments

Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds data loss and performance issues (tomshardware.com)

SSD, Performance, Hardware, Storage, Testing

123 points by progval 34 days ago | 87 comments

Synology confirms that higher-end NAS products will require its branded drives (arstechnica.com)
Popular NAS-maker Synology has confirmed and slightly clarified a policy that appeared on its German website earlier this week: Its "Plus" tier of devices, starting with the 2025 series, will require Synology-branded hard drives for full compatibility, at least at first.

Hardware, Storage, Synology, NAS

11 points by thunderbong 34 days ago | 4 comments

Achieveing lower latencies with S3 object storage (spiraldb.com)
Over the past 19 years (S3 was launched on March 14th 2006, as the first public AWS service), object storage has become the gold standard for storing large amounts of data in the cloud. It's reliable, reasonably cheap, reasonably fast, and requires no special incantations to deploy. Best of all, it offers a straightforward HTTP-based interface with clear semantics (see NFS horrors).

Cloud Computing, Storage, Performance Optimization

31 points by znpy 34 days ago | 23 comments

Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move (servethehome.com)
I dislike writing these articles, but here we are. According to HardwareLuxx, Synology is on a rough course with generations-old sub-par NAS hardware and now appears to be locking its NAS units to its own branded hard drives in its upcoming 2025 Plus models. This is a shame since a few years ago, Synology had neat hardware.

Hardware, Storage, Synology, NAS

653 points by motiejus 34 days ago | 402 comments

Synology Locks Key NAS Features Behind Proprietary Drive Requirement (tomshardware.com)

Hardware, Synology, NAS, Storage

9 points by m463 35 days ago | 1 comments

Synology could bring "certified drive" requirements to more NAS devices (arstechnica.com)
Synology, maker of network-attached storage (NAS) devices, will seemingly remove advanced features from its Plus devices that are not using hard drives provided by, or certified by, Synology itself, starting with its 2025 lineup.

Synology, NAS, Hardware, Storage, Consumer Tech

10 points by instagib 35 days ago | 0 comments

Synology confirms need for its own branded drives in newer Plus-series NAS (arstechnica.com)
Popular NAS-maker Synology has confirmed and slightly clarified a policy that appeared on its German website earlier this week: Its "Plus" tier of devices, starting with the 2025 series, will require Synology-branded hard drives for full compatibility, at least at first.

Storage, Hardware, NAS, Synology

7 points by trbutler 35 days ago | 1 comments

Synology now requires Synology-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems (tomshardware.com)

Hardware, Storage, Synology, Consumer Electronics, NAS

7 points by CharlesW 35 days ago | 2 comments

Synology press release regarding changes to HDD compatibility (reddit.com)
Germany, Düsseldorf - 16.04.2025 - Following the success of the high-performance series, the company is now also relying more heavily on Synology's own storage media for the Plus series models to be released from 2025. As a result, users will benefit from higher performance, increased reliability and more efficient support.

Storage, Hardware, Synology, Compatibility, News

6 points by ahamez 36 days ago | 3 comments

Synology requires own-brand drives for some consumer NAS systems (tomshardware.com)

Hardware, Storage, NAS, Synology

3 points by 01-_- 36 days ago | 1 comments

AWS announces 85% price reductions for S3 Express One Zone (amazon.com)
At re:Invent 2023, we introduced Amazon S3 Express One Zone, a high-performance, single-Availability Zone (AZ) storage class purpose-built to deliver consistent single-digit millisecond data access for your most frequently accessed data and latency-sensitive applications.

Cloud Computing, AWS, Storage, Pricing

27 points by panrobo 39 days ago | 15 comments

New Apache Cassandra Release Saves 400% IOPS (simplyblock.io)
On April 10, 2025, the Apache Software Foundation released version 5.0.4 of Apache Cassandra, bringing significant performance optimizations for all users—but especially for those relying on remotely attached storage like Amazon EBS. The standout feature in this release is an overhaul of the compaction algorithm aimed at slashing IOPS usage while increasing overall throughput.

Database, Apache Cassandra, Performance Optimization, Storage

5 points by noctarius 40 days ago | 0 comments

Colossus: The secret ingredient behind Google Cloud's Rapid Storage (cloud.google.com)
As an object storage service, Google Cloud Storage is popular for its simplicity and scale, a big part of which is due to the stateless REST protocols that you can use to read and write data. But with the rise of AI and as more customers look to run data-intensive workloads, two major obstacles to using object storage are its higher latency and lack of file-oriented semantics.

Cloud Computing, Google Cloud, Storage, AI, Data

16 points by dserenyi 43 days ago | 0 comments

I just want to serve 5 terabytes [video] (youtube.com)

Storage, Video, Online Content

78 points by nobody9999 49 days ago | 34 comments

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

4 points by kwiktrip 50 days 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 53 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 58 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 59 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 61 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 71 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 72 days ago | 1 comments