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@tommi@pan.rentI am running #PhotoPrism on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8GB of RAM, using a 1TB SSD as the main and only drive, using the Pimoroni NVMe Base.
So far, I could not properly measure the performance, because I don’t know how to do it, but I am satisfied! Yet, this is definitely not a future-proof solution, since I need way more storage: I still haven’t imported most of my pictures there, and I need to prepare for plenty more to come.
The simplest (yet quite pricey, 261£) option would be to get a Pimoroni NVMe Duo and maximize it with a total of 4TB NVMe SSDs.
I think this is not optimal, though, and probably I could be spending all that money much better… Do you have any advice?
The thing about hosting a personal media gallery is that it requires a lot of resources when indexing the pictures (so only when you add new ones), then it’s super light—correct me if I am wrong, @photoprism. Hence, I’m thinking the best would be an extensible solution where I can add many HDDs and SSDs, without being forced to pump up the other specs too. I would probably be using just one NVMe SSD for the software and the database, and then save everything else in high-performance HDDs, since they are getting cheap and I can get much more storage with less money—of course I am performing a daily backup off-site, as they are more likely to fail, too.
If I am 100% sure that whatever I end up choosing will be solid for many years to come, I am willing to consider spending a bit more on it.
#homeLab #storage #Immich #mediaStorage #HDD #SSD #NVMe #RaspberryPi #RaspberryPi5 #server #homeServer #selfHosting #hosting #help #tips #advice #backup #photo #photoStorage #pictures #selfHost
Western Digital: Über 800.000 11-Platter-Festplatten mit 26 bis 32 TB verkauft https://www.computerbase.de/news/storage/western-digital-ueber-800-000-11-platter-festplatten-mit-26-bis-32-tb-verkauft.92422/ #WDC #HDD
Western Digital ist jetzt wieder ein reiner HDD-Hersteller…
ComputerBaseOne thing that SSD's still can't do, Is keep your data Safe for periods similar to that of mechanicals without being powered up every Year.
Too many people have complained about using SSD as offline storage and came to realize that after a year and a half, of being offline a significant amount of the data was gone.
It must be technically feasible to make a pure mechanical HDD that has higher throughputs.
#Data #Backup #Amiga #Fujitsu #SCSI #HDD #UltraWide #68Pins #mechanical #magnetic
Right as we speak a copy of one of my large audio projects is made to a mechanical HDD. I ask myself why technology has not evolved in a way that single consumer grade drives can take the TB of data they hold in at speeds that are proportional to their size.
It takes 10 minutes for a puny 100GB to be transferred at about 160MB/s from the M.2 SSD to the mechanical spinner which still rotates at that lousy 7200RPM.
My Ultrawide SCSI Fijitsu HDD on my A4000T rotated at 10.000RPM! That HDD is from the last century!!!
IT still works!
If HDD companies put in the proper research we may not be having 20.000RPM drives on servers, because of mechanical limits, but we should have had 10.000 rpm drives now for consumer grade mechanical HDDs.
Legenda:
1TB = 1024GigaBytes
1MB = 1024Bytes
#Data #Backup #Amiga #Fujitsu #SCSI #HDD #UltraWide #68Pins #mechanical #magnetic
Synology requires self-branded drives for some consumer NAS systems, drops full functionality and support for third-party HDDs
Are your files going to be safer with Synology hard…
Tom's HardwareMaking a Variable Speed Disc Sander from an Old Hard Drive - This short video from [ProShorts 101] shows us how to build a variable speed disc ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/16/making-a-variable-speed-disc-sander-from-an-old-hard-drive/ #circularsander #harddiskdrive #discsander #toolhacks #hdd
This short video from [ProShorts 101] shows us how…
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RightToPrivacy & Tech Tips @RTP@fosstodon.orgBusKill Tutorial: Self Destructing Laptop Storage
#buskill #encryption #crypto #storage #forensics #antiforensics #HDD #infosec #cybersecurity #datarecovery #luks #encrypted #harddrive #privacy #security #educational
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Get y'er $112 5TB drives before the tariffs fuck everything up!
@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.ioStorage winners and losers in Trump's #tariff-happy world
#US tariffs to heavily impact #HDD and #SSD, increasing costs
#Seagate, #Toshiba, and #WesternDigital have different supply chains, but subject to risks of substantial tariffs, particularly on drives produced in China (124%), Malaysia (24%), Philippines (17%), and Thailand (36%).
#NAND fabricated in Japan or Singapore but diced, tested, and packaged in China, the SSD origin is very likely to be considered China.
https://blocksandfiles.com/2025/04/07/storage-and-trump-tariffs/
Trump’s tariffs will affect US storage companies with…
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アルディ 
SuperDuper! v3.10 B4 now available (well, it was available a few days ago for auto-update, but it took a while to write the blog post).
Blog announcing the release and some info about HDDs vs SSDs to accompany the update:
https://www.shirtpocket.com/blog/index.php/shadedgrey/comments/wgth_ssds_redux/
NVMe для HDD: как новая технология решает проблемы хранения данных ИИ
Системы искусственного интеллекта сталкиваются с серьезной проблемой: как хранить и обрабатывать огромные объемы данных, необходимые для обучения и работы моделей. Традиционные решения уже не справляются с требованиями скорости, масштабируемости и экономичности. Решением могут стать жесткие диски с интерфейсом NVMe. Они сочетают в себе экономичность HDD с производительностью NVMe, устраняя узкие места в системах хранения данных для ИИ. Seagate впервые представила прототип таких накопителей в 2021 году на саммите Open Compute Project, а в марте 2025 года на конференции GTC компания продемонстрировала уже полноценное решение, интегрирующее NVMe HDD с современной платформой Mozaic 3+ и процессорами обработки данных NVIDIA BlueField-3. Разбираемся, как NVMe HDD могут изменить подход к хранению данных для ИИ и стать ключевым элементом будущих инфраструктур.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/mclouds/articles/899490/
#итинфраструктура #hdd #nvme #хранение_данных #искусственный_интеллект #ssd #pcie #накопители
Системы искусственного интеллекта сталкиваются с серьезной…
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@AizawaTsuki@kazv.moe#存储 #HDD
NVMexpress本来设计就是为了“大一统”掉存储器的协议和界面吧，从ramdisk（CXL over NVMe），到最常见的SSD（m.2、U.2、U.3以及EDSFF），再到存储卡（SDexpress、CFexpress），现在HDD用Nvme也不是多么以外的事情，U.2/U.3标准里本来就有针对3.5 inch归档用HDD的适配和支持，对于HM-SMR这种按块写入的设备，NVMexpress相比SATA和SAS有着更好的支持，毕竟按块写入的特性有些类似于SSD。
Power on hours: 143724
Reallocated sector count: zero
#Btrfs total checksum mismatches: zero
Btrfs total read/write errors: f**king zero
Slow though they may be, hard disk drives are amazing. #SSD s are cool and all, but how often do you find one that's old enough to drive a car and still functioning perfectly?
Technology we could rely on in the last century.
It started with Winchester Drives then the MFM & the RLL drives, which needed manual parking & low level formatting.
Later it became the three and a half inch Magneto mechanical hard drive.
On my Amiga computers the Fujitsu HDDs spin* at a dizzying 10.000 RPM!
The Fujitsu is an Ultra Wide 68 pins SCSI HDD, with a transfer speed so high my Amiga never had to wait for data from the drive.
@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io#WesternDigital to unveil 44TB #HAMR #HDD in 2026 (But not shipping in volume until 2027. )
100TB in 2030!
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/western-digital-to-unveil-44tb-hamr-hdds-in-2026-100tb-in-2030
But not shipping in volume until 2027.
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