16 stories tagged storage, newest first.
107 points by storagebits | 28 comments
Uberblok is an interactive web museum explaining OpenZFS internals like the uberblock, copy-on-write, txgs, RAID-Z and the ARC with animations tied to source code.
146 points by saisrirampur | 148 comments
ClickHouse blog recap of a POSETTE 2026 talk arguing PostgreSQL performance at scale is limited by storage, with benchmarks and a local-NVMe production architecture.
286 points by HieronymusBosch | 97 comments
Backblaze blog post reporting hard drive reliability and failure rate statistics from its data centers for Q2 2026.
327 points by 4diii | 220 comments
A blog note explaining how to set up a minimal ZFS-based NAS and share a dataset over the network with Samba instead of using Synology, QNAP, or TrueNAS.
710 points by amichail | 285 comments
XDA Developers article explaining that SSDs left unpowered for long periods gradually lose stored data due to charge leakage in NAND flash.
981 points by baobun | 628 comments
Guru3D news article reporting that Synology has reversed its policy restricting third-party HDDs in its 2025 NAS models after sales dropped sharply.
422 points by ingve | 213 comments
Jeff Geerling blog post reviewing compact mini NAS devices that combine NVMe SSD storage with Intel's efficient low-power processors.
586 points by motiejus | 323 comments
ServeTheHome article by Patrick Kennedy criticizing Synology's move to restrict its NAS units to Synology-branded hard drives.
586 points by sebg | 98 comments
Blog post introducing DeepSeek's 3FS (Fire-Flyer File System), explaining distributed file systems and how 3FS operates, first in a series.
319 points by wenyuanyu | 80 comments
GitHub repository for DeepSeek's 3FS (Fire-Flyer File System), a high-performance distributed file system for AI training and inference workloads.
343 points by scrp | 246 comments
GitHub release page for OpenZFS 2.3.0, announcing features including RAIDZ expansion and Fast Dedup.
421 points by type0 | 203 comments
Blog post by a Klara developer explaining OpenZFS 2.3.0's new Fast Dedup feature and why most users still shouldn't enable deduplication.
391 points by louwrentius | 271 comments
Blog post reviewing a self-built 71 TiB ZFS NAS with twenty-four 4 TB drives that has run for 10 years without a single drive failure.
337 points by goranmoomin | 191 comments
Six Colors article by Glenn Fleishman about a Mac whose disk was so full it couldn't be restored, and the troubleshooting involved.
356 points by giis | 123 comments
A beginner's guide to ZFS covering its history, components like vdevs, pools, datasets and RAIDZ types, plus common pool commands, written after a FreeNAS crash.
700 points by werner | 135 comments
Werner Vogels' All Things Distributed blog post on how Amazon S3 is built and operated at massive scale, from hard drives to organizational practices.