I write about data storage and technical things
Ask most engineers what "archiving" means and you'll get some version of the same answer: move old data somewhere cheaper. That's true, but it skips the part that actually matters — what happens to th
In FinTech, regulatory inquiries aren't a once-a-year anomaly — they're standard operating procedure. A mature compliance or fraud team might field 20 to 30 requests a week: a subpoena for a specific
If you ask the average PC builder or small business IT admin what they think of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) hard drives, you’ll probably get a groan. For years, SMR has been the bogeyman of the
A case for pairing BLAKE3 verification with on-premise LTO tape - and why open-source tooling is the missing piece. Picture the scenario: a studio wraps a multi-million-dollar series. Five years late
The Archive That Can't Be Ransomed Why Air-Gapped Tape Is Your Last Real Line of Defense Your backup is online. That's the problem. It's 2am. The edit bay NAS goes dark first, then the render farm sha
The unfortunate reality of high-resolution production is that your best work is effectively unreachable - and the cloud is making it worse. You've just wrapped a feature. The 4K ProRes masters, the A
Walk into almost any company's infrastructure budget meeting and you'll hear the same request: more flash, bigger RAID arrays, another NVMe shelf. Storage keeps getting more expensive, and the answer
If you’re a developer, a selfhoster, or someone managing massive datasets, you are probably trapped in the same expensive cycle that I was. Data sizes are exploding. Between AI datasets, endless conta
