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code.storage: git-backed code storage
code.storage is a git-backed code storage service designed for scale. Minimal public information available at the time of capture.
Disk Prices on eBay
A price tracker for hard disk drives on eBay, sorted by cost-per-TB. Useful when building out storage-heavy homelab or NAS setups where getting the best $/TB matters.
AWS S3 Signed URLs in Django
A guide to generating AWS S3 presigned URLs in Django — allowing clients to upload or download files directly to S3 without routing through your application server. Standard pattern for handling file storage in Django applications at scale.
Building a NAS with ZFS and AFP/Samba for Time Machine
A guide to building a NAS (Network Attached Storage) with ZFS and AFP/Samba configured as a Time Machine backup target — covering ZFS pool setup, share configuration, and macOS Time Machine integration. The self-hosted alternative to iCloud or Time Capsule for Mac backups.
Arweave — Be Careful
A Reddit warning thread about Arweave, the permanent decentralized storage blockchain. The 'be careful' framing captures the skepticism that arose alongside Arweave's speculative hype during the 2021 storage-chain boom.
Dobinsons Rear Dual Roller Drawer System for 4Runner 5th Gen
Dobinsons' heavy-duty dual roller drawer system for the 5th gen 4Runner with integrated fridge slide and side panels — a higher-spec commercial option with zinc-plated steel, 8 tie-down points, and a factory-fit trim kit. Requires drilling through floor.
DIY Drawer System Plans for the 5th Gen 4Runner
Trail 4Runner's step-by-step DIY plans for building a dual drawer storage system for the 5th gen 4Runner. Cut your own plywood, add drawer slides, save money vs. commercial options while getting a fully custom fit.
DFG Offroad Rear Drawer System for 5th Gen 4Runner
DFG Offroad's bolt-in rear drawer system for the 5th gen Toyota 4Runner — a commercial steel drawer unit that installs without cutting and provides organized cargo storage for overlanding or daily use.
DSHR's Blog — David Rosenthal
David Rosenthal's DSHR blog covers digital preservation, storage economics, and internet infrastructure with rare depth and rigor. One of the few places where long-run storage cost trends, blockchain critique, and library science intersect.
Making Sense of Dell + EMC + VMware
Andreessen Horowitz's breakdown of the $67B Dell-EMC deal — the largest tech acquisition in history at the time. The strategic driver was less obvious than it looked: Dell needed enterprise access and scale to survive the commodity hardware collapse, and going private again protected both companies from activist pressure.
Nutanix OS 3.5: Performance and Style
Nutanix's launch page for NOS 3.5 — the major OS release that added deduplication, compression, and new performance capabilities to their hyper-converged platform. Part of the same August 2013 product push that was challenging EMC and NetApp in enterprise storage accounts.
Nutanix Adds Memory and Flash De-duplication
The Register covering Nutanix OS adding memory and flash deduplication — plus the detail that EMC chairman Joe Tucci personally flew in to save a deal Nutanix won anyway. A snapshot of Nutanix disrupting legacy storage incumbents in 2013.
Simple Explanation of How Nutanix Works
A YouTube explainer of how Nutanix's distributed file system works — covering the Curator distributed metadata service, erasure coding, data placement, and how Nutanix collocates compute and storage in a hyper-converged node. Simple enough for sales conversations, technically accurate.
The Buzz and Fuzz on SSD in Hadoop
Hadoopsphere's analysis of SSD adoption in Hadoop clusters — the trade-off between SSD's dramatically faster random I/O and its higher cost per GB compared to spinning disk. An early look at how flash storage would eventually reshape big data infrastructure.
Is There Room for SSDs in the Hadoop Framework?
StorageTuning blog's technical assessment of where SSDs fit in Hadoop's storage hierarchy — evaluating specific bottlenecks (NameNode metadata, shuffle I/O, random reads) where flash storage provides measurable gains over spinning disk.
How Intelligent Storage Controllers Have Revolutionized the Industry
DatacenterKnowledge on how intelligent storage controllers — combining flash cache, tiering, and deduplication — changed enterprise storage from dumb arrays into software-defined platforms. A 2013 snapshot of the transition away from spinning-disk-only storage architectures.
Fusion-io Acquires ID7: Doubling Down on Software-Defined Storage
Fusion-io's 2013 acquisition of ID7 to expand into software-defined storage — a flash storage vendor trying to move up the stack. The bookmark's annotation noted skepticism about the iSCSI dependency.
How Multi-Disk Failures Happen
SysAdmin1138's analysis of how multi-disk failures actually happen in RAID arrays — debunking the assumption that independent failure is the norm. The real failure modes are correlated: same-batch drives, vibration propagation, and recovery-induced failures.
Basic Configuration of the Nutanix 2RU Block
An overview of what to expect when deploying a new Nutanix 2U block in 2012 — the physical setup, node configuration, and initial software steps for the hyperconverged appliance that was then challenging traditional SAN/NAS architectures.
Anatomy of a Solid-State Drive
ACM Queue deep dive into SSD internals — NAND flash cells, wear leveling, garbage collection, and how the FTL (Flash Translation Layer) hides the physical complexity from software. Essential for understanding why SSDs behave differently from spinning disks.
Hard Drive Shipments Recover from Thailand Floods
Engadget reports hard drive shipments recovering to record highs after the 2011 Thailand floods that destroyed major HDD manufacturing capacity — a supply chain crisis that drove SSD adoption and revealed the geographic concentration risk in disk manufacturing.
Mellanox Introduces RDMA-Based Virtual SAN Software Appliance
Mellanox announced a Virtual SAN software appliance built on RDMA that claimed 6x the performance of traditional Fibre Channel SAN hardware. A signal that software-defined storage was coming for legacy enterprise SAN.
Nutanix Raises $33 Million, Eyes IPO
Nutanix raised $33 million in August 2012 with early signs of IPO preparation. The company eventually went public in 2016 at a $9 billion valuation after establishing itself as the leader in hyper-converged infrastructure.
Dheeraj Pandey on Making Computing and Storage Converge
TechCrunch 'In the Studio' interview with Nutanix CEO Dheeraj Pandey explaining the hyper-converged infrastructure vision — collapsing the traditional three-tier data center into a single software-defined appliance. Ryan noted it was a fantastic video at the time.
Not Just for a Rainy Day: The True Meaning of Converged
Nutanix's 2012 blog post making the case for converged infrastructure — combining compute, storage, and networking in a single appliance rather than maintaining separate silos. Written during their early go-to-market phase, when hyperconvergence was still a novel concept rather than an industry standard.
How I Store My 1's and 0's: ZFS + Bargain HP Microserver = JOY
A practical guide to building a home NAS with ZFS on a cheap HP ProLiant Microserver N36L — a popular entry-level home server that punched above its weight for storage. ZFS's data integrity features made it the file system of choice for anyone who cared about bit-rot.