Next up for the #NextCloud deployment in the #HardenedBSD infrastructure: Backing up the VM storage to the NAS on a regular basis.

The VM's #OpenZFS zvol gets auto-snapshotted every 15 minutes, hour, day, week, month, and year.

I'm hoping to find something (suggestions welcome!) for something that can handle the zfs send part to the NAS but NOT handle the snapshotting itself.

Put another way: I want a tool I can use ONLY to run zfs send on an existing snapshot, sending it to a remote ssh host.

Or am I forced to use the same tool for both snapshotting and transfer?

#FreeBSD #storage

Next up for the #NextCloud deployment in the #HardenedBSD infrastructure: Backing up the VM storage to the NAS on a regular basis.

The VM's #OpenZFS zvol gets auto-snapshotted every 15 minutes, hour, day, week, month, and year.

I'm hoping to find something (suggestions welcome!) for something that can handle the zfs send part to the NAS but NOT handle the snapshotting itself.

Put another way: I want a tool I can use ONLY to run zfs send on an existing snapshot, sending it to a remote ssh host.

Or am I forced to use the same tool for both snapshotting and transfer?

#FreeBSD #storage

Hard drive prices are spiking because of "ai." Prices have jumped 46% on average since September.

The 24TB Seagate BarraCuda used to be $239 on sale, but it's now sitting at $500. "AI" training needs massive amounts of data storage, and manufacturers are shifting production toward enterprise drives for data centers, leaving regular buyers paying more than they should have to.

Between RAM, SSDs, and now HDDs, building a PC is getting expensive fast.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/hard-drive-prices-have-surged-by-an-average-of-46-percent-since-september-iconic-24tb-seagate-barracuda-now-usd500-as-ai-claims-another-victim

#NoAI #TechNews #PCBuilding #Hardware #Storage #AI #TerminalTilt #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #RAM #HDD #SSD #BigTech #SelfHosting #SelfHost #RightToRepair #FOSS #OpenSource

Hard drive prices are spiking because of "ai." Prices have jumped 46% on average since September.

The 24TB Seagate BarraCuda used to be $239 on sale, but it's now sitting at $500. "AI" training needs massive amounts of data storage, and manufacturers are shifting production toward enterprise drives for data centers, leaving regular buyers paying more than they should have to.

Between RAM, SSDs, and now HDDs, building a PC is getting expensive fast.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/hard-drive-prices-have-surged-by-an-average-of-46-percent-since-september-iconic-24tb-seagate-barracuda-now-usd500-as-ai-claims-another-victim

#NoAI #TechNews #PCBuilding #Hardware #Storage #AI #TerminalTilt #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #RAM #HDD #SSD #BigTech #SelfHosting #SelfHost #RightToRepair #FOSS #OpenSource

How to store a chess position in 26 bytes

https://ezzeriesa.notion.site/How-to-store-a-chess-position-in-26-bytes-using-bit-level-magic-df1fdb5364eb42fdac11eb23b25e9605

#HackerNews #chess #storage #bytes #bitmagic #optimization

These USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C SSD enclosures are kind of ridiculous, but also kind of adorable. One looks like a floppy drive, the other like a computer icon for a file folder... which in turn is skeuomorphic design meant to look like an actual folder. https://www.ithome.com/0/909/297.htm #SSDEnclosure #Storage #HAGiBiS

Build Your Own 100TB NAS in 2025: Complete TrueNAS Storage Guide

https://techlife.blog/posts/build-your-own-100tb-nas-2025-complete-truenas-storage-guide/

#HackerNews #Build #Your #Own #NAS #TrueNAS #Storage #Guide #100TB #TechDIY

Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git

https://github.com/illarion/lockenv

#HackerNews #Lockenv #Encrypted #Secrets #Git #Storage #OpenSource #Cybersecurity

I moved a working home TrueNAS installation (using a ZFS mirror of 2 usb3 drives!) to a new server and it was incredibly easy and painless. I did not expect that :).

Good job, TrueNAS!

#tech #trueNAS #linux #storage

@leibnizopenscience

Related, and a very good read:

If you had to store something for 100 years, how would you do it?

https://lil.law.harvard.edu/century-scale-storage/

#storage
#academia
#preservation
#libraries
#futurism
#history

The AI boom's impact on consumer RAM & storage pricing & availability claims another victim: Micron is shutting down its Crucial line of consumer-focused products to prioritize "Micron-branded enterprise products" for AI data centers and other commercial applications. https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-details/micron-announces-exit-crucial-consumer-business?s=31 #Crucial #Micron #RAM #Storage

MinIO is now in maintenance-mode

https://github.com/minio/minio/commit/27742d469462e1561c776f88ca7a1f26816d69e2

#HackerNews #MinIO #Maintenance #Mode #Open #Source #Cloud #Storage #Technology #News

I moved a working home TrueNAS installation (using a ZFS mirror of 2 usb3 drives!) to a new server and it was incredibly easy and painless. I did not expect that :).

Good job, TrueNAS!

#tech #trueNAS #linux #storage

https://www.ess-news.com/2025/11/27/china-scales-up-long-duration-storage-with-4-2-gwh-compressed-air-project/

Compressed Air Storage.

"Analysts estimate current CAES capital cost in China at CNY 800–1,500/kWh, with lifecycle electricity cost of CNY 0.20–0.30/kWh, approaching the economics of pumped hydro but with more flexible siting conditions."

There is an existing operational system with a reported 72.1% system efficiency.

#energytransition #storage

Is DWPD Still a Useful SSD Spec?

https://klarasystems.com/articles/is-dwpd-still-useful-ssd-spec/

#HackerNews #SSD #Spec #DWPD #Technology #Storage #Innovation #DataAnalysis

The unpowered SSDs in your drawer are slowly losing your data // @XDAOfficial

｢ if you're also using SSDs for cold storage, expecting the drives lying in your drawer to work perfectly after years, you might want to rethink your strategy. Your reliable SSD could suffer from corrupted or lost data if left unpowered for extended periods ｣

https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/

#ssd #storage

Unpowered SSDs slowly lose data

https://www.xda-developers.com/your-unpowered-ssd-is-slowly-losing-your-data/

#HackerNews #Unpowered #SSDs #data #loss #storage #technology #data #recovery #cybersecurity

Reminder that SMART is not magic, in my experience, disks are dead long before SMART stops reporting them as 'PASSED'.

I actually came across the perfect example today: Two disks in my backup server are having issues, one is clearly broken, the other gave 2 checksum errors.

Despite this, neither disk is 'failed' according to SMART, one has 456 offline uncorrectable errors / pending sectors, the other one is fine.

Don't rely on broken hardware to tell you that it's broken.

#storage #HDD #ZFS