Tag: Storage
All the articles with the tag "Storage".
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Reading the Disk in Order
The history and science of sequential I/O optimization, from spinning disks to modern OS I/O schedulers and file system layouts.
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The Media Store Pattern
Content-addressable storage as an infrastructure primitive that naturally caches and deduplicates intermediate pipeline artifacts.
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The Bandwidth Wall: Why Physical-First Backup Is Not a Workaround
Cloud backup has a physics problem. At any realistic residential upload speed, terabytes of data cannot cross the internet in a human time frame.
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Metadata Economics in Personal Storage
Why the catalog is cheaper than you think: demonstrating the 1,000:1 ratio between content byte size and metadata index size.
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Distributed Block Storage for Home Drives
Content-addressed block distribution fixes idle capacity by treating the drives you already own as a cohesive storage pool.