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
Lockenv – Simple encrypted secrets storage for Git
https://github.com/illarion/lockenv
#HackerNews #Lockenv #Encrypted #Secrets #Git #Storage #OpenSource #Cybersecurity
vruz
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"Scholarly blogs are often ad-hoc and temporary projects that suffer from poor digital preservation efforts. Drawing on a new survey of the German scholarly blogosphere, Heinz Pampel and Catharina Ochsner find a fragile blogging ecosystem and argue for renewed focus on preserving this form of scholarly communication."
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2025/11/18/the-case-for-preserving-scholarly-blogs/
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
Stefano Marinelli
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⁂ Article
Jellyfin on FreeBSD
We all love media - to some extent at least!Movies, TV Shows and all the moving pictures we can find and consume.So, since we all have movies etc. on our NAS/HDD/SSD/whatever we should be able to play and see everything we have on all our connected devices.But what can we do?Simple, we leverage Jellyfin to present our media to us.
In this little howto we will set up Jellyfin in a Jail on FreeBSD.
Let's get right to it!
Creating the Jail
Jails can be created in different ways. In this […]
⁂ Article
Jellyfin on FreeBSD
We all love media - to some extent at least!Movies, TV Shows and all the moving pictures we can find and consume.So, since we all have movies etc. on our NAS/HDD/SSD/whatever we should be able to play and see everything we have on all our connected devices.But what can we do?Simple, we leverage Jellyfin to present our media to us.
In this little howto we will set up Jellyfin in a Jail on FreeBSD.
Let's get right to it!
Creating the Jail
Jails can be created in different ways. In this […]
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.
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/
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.
the other disk's SMART info, a Seagate 4TB drive, showing 456 pending/offline uncorrectable sectors, however it is also marked as 'PASSED'. The disk has been used for 7 years (70k hours), and is currently 27C.
the disk that had 2 checksum errors, a Seagate 4TB drive, showing zero signs of issues in SMART, healthy temperature of 29C, though it has been on for 68145 hours (7.7 years)
ZFS pool status overview, showing 2 disks with issues, 1 being marked as FAULTED. The faulted one has 789 Read errors and 14 checksum errors. The other one only has 2 checksum errors.
Stefano Marinelli
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Transition to support for 52 partitions https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251114105005 #openbsd #storage #52partitions #disks #bigdisks #partitioning #development #freesoftware #current #libresoftware
Tanguy Fardet
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1. Where is a reputable place with good privacy/security that you can upload a video, and share the link privately for other people to watch back?
2. What nowadays would be a good price per GB for that kind of storage, once you're past whatever limit they set on the amount you can store for free?
(I'm trying to work out whether a particular deal is good value or not, and what might be the alternatives.)
Thanks for any info!
Transition to support for 52 partitions https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20251114105005 #openbsd #storage #52partitions #disks #bigdisks #partitioning #development #freesoftware #current #libresoftware
1. Where is a reputable place with good privacy/security that you can upload a video, and share the link privately for other people to watch back?
2. What nowadays would be a good price per GB for that kind of storage, once you're past whatever limit they set on the amount you can store for free?
(I'm trying to work out whether a particular deal is good value or not, and what might be the alternatives.)
Thanks for any info!
