storage

Hugging Face introduces Storage Buckets, a scalable object storage service for AI teams with per-TB pricing, Xet deduplication, built-in CDN, and no git overhead, designed for datasets, model checkpoints, and ML artifacts.

A tweet recommending a breakdown for learning AWS storage from scratch.

The article observes that hard drives tend to be full regardless of size, drawing analogies to other areas like software optimization, technical debt, and personal scheduling, and suggests imposing artificial constraints to manage resources effectively.

This article explains that ZFS scrub performance issues are symptoms of insufficient headroom in pool design, not a problem with the scrub itself, and advises proper sizing to avoid degradation.

Blaxel Agent Drive is a shared filesystem designed for AI agents to store and access files collaboratively.

A backend service for AI agents offering memory, storage, and semantic search with a single command, along with a $10,000 contest for the best application built on it.

A comprehensive guide to the best external hard drives for various needs including backups, gaming, and video editing, updated with current prices and recommendations.

A tutorial on building a minimal ZFS-based NAS on Debian Linux using OpenZFS and Samba, avoiding enterprise solutions like TrueNAS or Synology.

Explores the role of memory infrastructure in the AI economy, suggesting it is a critical but often overlooked counterpart to AI compute and model development.

ZeroFS is a log-structured filesystem that serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, or as raw block devices, with compression, encryption, and local caching for fast reads. It passes extensive POSIX and stress test suites, including kernel builds and Jepsen failover testing.

An interactive dataset tracking historical memory and storage prices from 1960 to 2026, covering DRAM, NAND flash, and HBM, with methodology and sources from Stanford and industry analysts.

The Samsung 990 Pro SSD is on sale for its lowest price in 2026 during Prime Day, offering a significant discount amid rising memory prices driven by AI data center demand.

A comprehensive review of the best NAS devices for home use, highlighting the Synology DiskStation DS225+ as a top performer for backups and media serving.

Ubiquiti launches ENAS, an enterprise NAS built on ZFS, offering high performance with Arm Neoverse N2 processors, up to 1 petabyte storage, license-free management via UniFi, and features like iSCSI support and centralized backup orchestration.

An open-source project compresses 60 million text chunks from 201 GB to 6 GB while maintaining retrieval quality, achieving 97% storage reduction and running on a regular laptop without GPU.

Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6 has been released with many performance improvements including lockless journal flushes, btree optimizations, and improved sharding. It also supports up to 255 storage devices per filesystem and offers Ubuntu 26.04 LTS packages.

SanDisk announced the new Optimus GX PRO 850P NVMe SSD for PS5, with the 8TB model costing $2,959.99, more than three PS5 Pro consoles.

This tweet introduces various development features provided by Cloudflare, including object storage R2, backend API Workers, AI gateway AI Gateway, containers, cache KV, database D1, and PostgreSQL connection HyperDrive, emphasizing their low cost, rich features, and generous free tier.

This article walks through building a minimal FUSE filesystem in Rust called magicfs, which uses a metadata.json and blob files as a backing store, demonstrating core filesystem concepts like name lookup, inode stability, and kernel caching.

A series of hands-on Linux challenges covering drive partitioning, formatting filesystems (ext4, btrfs), mounting, and persistent mounts, using iximiuz Labs and the labctl CLI tool.