Samsung's 990 PRO Gen4 2TB NVMe SSD is on sale for $385 on Amazon, a 40% discount from its regular $640 price, driven by global NAND flash memory shortages. The drive offers fast speeds, 2TB storage capacity, thermal control, and Samsung Magician Software for optimization, making it suitable for professionals and creatives working with large files.
Researchers introduce BITCOS, a distribution-adaptive compression layout for ternary LLMs that exploits the actual sparsity of weights (up to 51.5% zeros) to achieve storage below the theoretical 1.585-bit limit, reaching 1.485 bits per weight and improving inference throughput by up to 1.28× on production kernels across multiple platforms.
Backups are essential but complex, requiring more than simple mirroring due to risks like ransomware, data corruption, and user error. The article discusses backup principles including multiple copies, snapshots at appropriate intervals (RPO), and retention rotation strategies to balance storage costs with recovery needs.
A user expresses frustration with Apple's iCloud backup system, which prevents partial photo uploads when the photo library exceeds available storage space. They criticize the product decision and announce they will use alternative backup methods instead.
The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the world's largest crude oil storage facility with capacity for 714 million barrels, was established following OAPEC's 1973 oil embargo to protect against supply disruptions and price shocks. Created using underground salt dome storage, the SPR has become a key energy policy tool, though it has operational limits on how much oil can be safely withdrawn.
A founder reflects on building XetHub, a content-defined storage infrastructure company, from its whiteboard conception in 2021 through its acquisition by Hugging Face in 2024. The piece traces key moments in the startup's journey and explores how organizational structures at hyperscalers create gaps that infrastructure companies can fill.
The author argues that data versioning tools should focus narrowly on tracking large files across Git commits. While Git LFS and DVC solve this problem, they introduce additional complexity—LFS requires an external service, and DVC emphasizes broader features like pipelines. The author presents Gat, a deliberately simple alternative written in Rust that handles file versioning through a lock file and optimized caching, prioritizing speed and simplicity over feature breadth.
MinIO was abandoned by its parent company in late 2025, disrupting software demos and build pipelines that relied on it for local S3 emulation. This article explores alternatives to MinIO for single-node deployments, evaluating options based on Docker support, S3 compatibility, open-source licensing, ease of use, and community backing.
Worldwide data center component revenue grew 182% in Q2 2026 as DRAM and storage prices doubled year-over-year, according to Dell'Oro Group. Filecoin notes it had deployed storage capacity before the price surge, while AEHR stock commentary highlights AI and data-center demand driving 71% of FY2026 revenue with management guiding to 160–200% growth for FY2027.
Lisa Florentina analyzes Filecoin's shift toward paid storage settlement for AI and enterprise data, highlighting October 15 vesting cliff reducing issuance by 75% and protocol changes under Solstice that tie rewards to actual usage. Early metrics show Filecoin Pay's annualized run-rate grew to $59k by August with adoption from Aurora, Akave, and institutions like Internet Archive, positioning Filecoin as verifiable, portable storage infrastructure as AI data demand rises.
Nix enables instant rollbacks by using immutable store paths and symlink-based generations rather than in-place installation like apt or brew. Installing or removing packages creates new numbered snapshots without modifying existing ones, so rolling back simply repoints a symlink to a previous generation with no downloads or rebuilds needed. The tradeoff is that deleting generations doesn't immediately free disk space until garbage collection runs and no roots reference those paths.
iOS 27 introduces design refinements and a revamped Siri AI, compatible with iPhone 11 and newer. Before updating, ensure 18-25GB free storage, adequate battery power, a Wi-Fi connection, and back up your device through iCloud or a computer to prevent data loss during the upgrade process.
Ultrastorage is a JavaScript library that extends localStorage with rich-value serialization, expiration/TTL support, namespacing, schema validation, and cross-tab subscriptions. It stores complex types like Set, Map, Date, and BigInt while offering optional React hooks and dual ESM/CJS builds.
A programmer discovers that fsync() doesn't guarantee data durability the way commonly assumed, as multiple storage layers between application and disk have different definitions of "done". The article explains how write() only puts data in the page cache, not on disk, and how journaling filesystems add complexity to data persistence guarantees.
MeshDrive's Agent and TUI components improve error handling by consistently returning JSON responses on API failures, validating JuiceFS storage creation, and providing clearer user feedback for connection and timeout issues.
DiskTriage is a Windows CLI tool that reclaims C: drive space by identifying and safely deleting or relocating bloat like developer caches, AI models, and game stores. It includes SSD health checks, an interactive menu, and features like environment variable updates and NTFS junctions for seamless relocation to secondary drives.
The OrangePi Zero 3W is a tiny single-board computer with hardware specs comparable to the larger OrangePi 4 Pro, featuring low power consumption (2-6.6W), limited onboard storage (8GB eMMC), and effective thermal management via an included fan and heatsink. Despite its small footprint, the board offers expandable storage through an FPC PCIe 3.0 socket and is suitable as a low-cost home server alternative.
MailVault is an email client with backup functionality that lets users archive messages locally while keeping server copies intact. It supports Gmail, Outlook, and IMAP accounts, offers offline search of archived mail in standard EML format, and includes features like nested folders and multi-account threading. The team demonstrates rapid response to user requests, delivering requested features within days.
DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash model reduces HBM requirements by 75% and storage needs by 87.5% through improved KV cache efficiency, initially pressuring memory stocks. However, the analyst argues this reflects optimization rather than reduced AI demand—lower per-token costs should drive increased usage across inference, agent deployment, and context length, potentially sustaining overall semiconductor demand growth.
An engineer shares lessons from operating petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for nearly 6 years at Tinybird, covering architecture decisions including replica and shard strategies, HTTP-based load balancing, and cost considerations. The piece emphasizes that cluster setup is straightforward but operational challenges arise in scaling, storage management, and avoiding costly replication overhead.