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Pete Prodoehl 🍕<p>My adventures with TrueNAS so far... I like it, it's complex, but seems pretty powerful, but also complicated.</p><p>➡️ <a href="https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/04/01/truenas-testing/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">rasterweb.net/raster/2025/04/0</span><span class="invisible">1/truenas-testing/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/truenas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truenas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a></p>
UK<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/uk/1384/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/uk/1384/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Win a mighty 16TB QNAP TS-432X-4G NAS <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/GIVEAWAY" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GIVEAWAY</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/NAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NAS</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Qnap" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Qnap</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Storage</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UK</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/UnitedKingdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedKingdom</span></a></p>
💓 EV∆ ∆ΠΠ∆ 💓<p>💾 Rebooting Petabyte Control Node 💾</p><p>am rebooting one of the control nodes for a petabyte+ storage array, after 504 days of system uptime..</p><p>watching kernel log_level 6 debug info scroll by on the SoL terminal via iDrac..</p><p>logs scrolling, the array of SAS3 DE3-24C double-redundant SFF linked Oracle/Sun drive enclosures spin-up and begin talking to multipathd...</p><p>waiting for Zpool cache file import..</p><p>waiting.. 131 / 132 drives online across all enclosures.. hmm.. what's this now... </p><p>> transport_port_remove: removed: sas_addr(0x500c04f2cfe10620)</p><p>well ffs 😒 </p><p>> 12:0:10:0: SATA: handle(0x0017), sas_addr(0x500c04f2cfe10620), phy(32),</p><p>oh, that's a SATA drive on the system's local enclosure bay for scratch data, it's not part of the ZFS pool.. 😌 </p><p>next step, not today, move control nodes to a higher performance + lower wattage pair of FreeBSD servers 💗 </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/stress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stress</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/systems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>systems</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/zfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zfs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/openzfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openzfs</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/datacenter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datacenter</span></a></p>
Dietrich Feist<p>Currently moving all my <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/S3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>S3</span></a>-based <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> from <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Amazon</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AWS</span></a> to a provider in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>.</p><p>Took me a while to find a cloud service provider that also offers <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/coldstorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coldstorage</span></a> like <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/AWS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AWS</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/glacier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glacier</span></a>. <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Scaleway" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Scaleway</span></a> in <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> has it!</p><p><a href="https://www.scaleway.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">scaleway.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Aaron Longchamps<p>TIL you can mount an NFS share to a pod running in Kubernetes.</p><p>My use case for this is to have my Synology provide the backend storage, Kubernetes handles the containers, and Nextcloud is my frontend.*</p><p>As an added bonus, I can still use Finder in MacOS to get to my files, if I want to. No client required.</p><p>*Why not just use the Synology interface you might ask? Over time, Synology has reduced features on their platform. Version 7.2.2 of their Disk Station Manager killed off video station as well as HEVC support, for example.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/homelab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>homelab</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/selfhosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfhosted</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/nfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nfs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/production" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>production</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a></p>
Danie van der Merwe<p>OxiCloud is an open source lightweight alternative to NextCloud</p><p>NextCloud is great, but it tends to be heavyweight and packs a ton of extra functionality in.</p><p>OxiCloud may be worth considering if you are looking for something a lot lighter and faster. OxiCloud requires a minimum of 512 MB RAM, and I see it has ...continues</p><p>See <a href="https://gadgeteer.co.za/oxicloud-is-an-open-source-lightweight-alternative-to-nextcloud/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gadgeteer.co.za/oxicloud-is-an</span><span class="invisible">-open-source-lightweight-alternative-to-nextcloud/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a></p>
IT News<p>Seagate's 24TB IronWolf Pro is only $399 for World Backup Day - Don't neglect your backup needs. Get a reliable HDD for you... - <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/seagates-24tb-ironwolf-pro-is-only-usd399-for-world-backup-day" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tomshardware.com/pc-components</span><span class="invisible">/hdds/seagates-24tb-ironwolf-pro-is-only-usd399-for-world-backup-day</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pccomponents" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pccomponents</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/hdds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hdds</span></a></p>
Frans van Beers<p>Het <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Stationsplein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stationsplein</span></a> in <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Eindhoven" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eindhoven</span></a> gaat helemaal veranderen! <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/district" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>district</span></a>-E <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/fotografie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fotografie</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/streetphotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>streetphotography</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/acdsee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>acdsee</span></a> Photo Studio Ultimate (<a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/RAW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RAW</span></a> editing) <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Zonerama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zonerama</span></a> (free unlimited <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> & <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/albums" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>albums</span></a> in <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/Europe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Europe</span></a>) zo ziet het er nu nog uit, click4 foto's & info<br><a href="https://eu.zonerama.com/fransvanbeers/Album/13052321" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eu.zonerama.com/fransvanbeers/</span><span class="invisible">Album/13052321</span></a></p>
DamonHD<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/today" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>today</span></a> trying to catch up on some email (inbox zero is not happening in this lifetime though, it seems) and plod on with a little more <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/modelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>modelling</span></a> ...</p><p>It is <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sunny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sunny</span></a> here again, and I hope that all my <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> will fill today, for the first time this year!</p>
Pete Prodoehl 🍕<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://me.dm/@jdavidnet" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jdavidnet</span></a></span> TrueNAS is open source. (Used to be FreeNAS so it's been around forever.) It supports ZFS.</p><p>We use Synology at work. It's simple to setup and use, while TrueNAS Scale is more complex and difficult to use. More of a learning curve.</p><p>As for running applications, containers, etc. see this list: <a href="https://www.truenas.com/apps/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">truenas.com/apps/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>(Screenshot of my fresh install showing 169 applications I could install.)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/truenas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truenas</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a></p>
SomeGadgetGuy<p>It's so rad seeing more accessories and enclosures utilizing NVME drives. It's super easy to add HUGE storage to a laptop or mini PC. <br><a href="https://somegadgetguy.com/b/4K9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">somegadgetguy.com/b/4K9</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Acasis 4-Bay Thunderbolt 4 NVME RAID Enclosure Review!</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gadgets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gadgets</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geek</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/review" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>review</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/youtube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>youtube</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mac</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>windows</span></a></p>
rafa.pineraEnterprise storage logic <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/storage?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#storage</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/logic?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#logic</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/raid?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#raid</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Argentina?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Argentina</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/tech?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vsd?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vsd</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/sys?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sys</a>
Fight the Right<p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BYD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BYD</span></a> leads unstoppable charge</p><p><a href="https://volewica.blogspot.com/2025/03/byd-leads-unstoppable-charge.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">volewica.blogspot.com/2025/03/</span><span class="invisible">byd-leads-unstoppable-charge.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Tesla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tesla</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LearningCurve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearningCurve</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EVs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EVs</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Storage</span></a></p>
Dr Pen<p>As part of my de-Google efforts I'm investigating file manager scripts for my shared hosting space. Tiny File Manager is a great little script, one php file in the home directory with hash password login, and everything is accessible. Create, edit, view, delete, upload, copy and link to. I'll test other free/OS scripts but this is great, and obv you can customise the script as much as you like. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/php" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>php</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scriptsaturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scriptsaturday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/degoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>degoogle</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://tinyfilemanager.github.io/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyfilemanager.github.io/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Dr Pen<p>As part of my de-Google efforts I'm investigating file manager scripts for my shared hosting space. Tiny File Manager is a great little script, one php file in the home directory with hash password login, and everything is accessible. Create, edit, view, delete, upload, copy and link to. I'll test other free/OS scripts but this is great, and obv you can customise the script as much as you like. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/php" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>php</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scripts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scripts</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scriptsaturday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scriptsaturday</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/degoogle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>degoogle</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://tinyfilemanager.github.io/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">tinyfilemanager.github.io/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Definitely Doc D<p>Clean energy progress in red, swing states</p><p>2024 was another record-setting year for new <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> (battery) installation, incl in TX, CA, also NM, OR, and Arizona. </p><p>Plus more residential storage.</p><p>Storage evens out grid energy supply, imp for <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/wind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wind</span></a> and <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solar</span></a>. Lets us build for avg demand, not peak demand.</p><p>More 2025 growth expected, altho' less.<br>Need remains, even if Biden IRA dismantled </p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/cleanenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cleanenergy</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/battery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>battery</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arizona</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/california" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>california</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/climatehope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatehope</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.latitudemedia.com/news/us-storage-up-33-in-2024/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latitudemedia.com/news/us-stor</span><span class="invisible">age-up-33-in-2024/</span></a></p>
Definitely Doc D<p>New green battery tech - from red state Alabama</p><p>Doesn't require cooling, a big downside of lithium ion batteries. <br>Also cheaper to produce. </p><p>From inventor of Super Soaker.<br>He's also Tuskegee Institute engineer involved with stealth bomber, bunch of other stuff.</p><p>Cannot make this stuff up! </p><p><a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/battery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>battery</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/EV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>EV</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/cleanenergy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cleanenergy</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/electrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>electrification</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>innovation</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/Alabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alabama</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a> <a href="https://urbanists.social/tags/climatehope" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>climatehope</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2025/03/visionary-alabama-inventor-lonnie-johnson-may-have-the-gamechanger-in-battery-technology.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">al.com/news/birmingham/2025/03</span><span class="invisible">/visionary-alabama-inventor-lonnie-johnson-may-have-the-gamechanger-in-battery-technology.html</span></a></p>
ap.galerieanimalis lucivoris, hey.<br>
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- composants électroniques, cuivre, plexiglas, bois - 2022<br>
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Balise lumineuse émettant "hey" en code morse après avoir accumulé suffisamment d'énergie ; alimentation par panneau solaire (si besoin par pile bouton).<br>
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Light marker which blinks "hey" in morse code after having stored enough energy ; power supply by solar cell (if necessary, by button cell).<br>
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Jaap de Vos<p>"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."</p><p>This quote about the bandwidth of physical transportation is roughly 10 years older than me. It came up in the Packet Pushers slack channel, and somebody wondered if it's still valid in 2025. Ouch! I got nerd sniped! Now I'm wondering too. Let's investigate.</p><p>To start, we'll need some numbers. This is gonna be pretty big on guesstimates, royally rounding things up or down, and ignoring some geometrical factors.</p><p>I can't ascertain the quote's origin, but I'm certain it originated in the USA. A 1975 American station wagon could have been a Ford LTD Wagon. Let's pick that one, it looks like a sweet ride. According to the brochure, it features a cargo volume of "over 100 cu. ft. counting lockable below-deck stowage". That's over 2,800,000 cubic centimers.</p><p>Let's choose a distance outside of the USA, UK, Liberia and Myanmar. That way we can stick with the International System of Units (SI), avoid dealing with miles, and avoid deteriorating our sanity any further.<br>One of my longer road trips featured a drive from Rome, IT to Dordrecht, NL: around 1600 kilometers. Assuming two alternating drivers, some bad traffic and some stops, let's say the drive takes us 25 hours.</p><p>The bandwidth could be 800 Gbit/s today, ignoring bandwidth-delay product. If you get creative with source and destination storage arrays and the network inbetween, you could conceivably multiplex and achieve some multiple, but 800 Gbit/s seems like a fair number so we'll stick with that.</p><p>Pushing 800 Gbit/s for 25 hours straight, we're are able to transfer a total of 9,000,000 gigabytes (9,000 terabytes or 9 petabytes). At this point I'm already intuiting the final answer, but let's move along.</p><p>According to a quick Google search, the highest capacity SSD for the last few years (HDD's don't come close anymore) has been the ExaDrive EDDCT100/EDDCS100 at 100TB. The ExaDrive is a 3.5" SSD. However, Solidigm is currently releasing a 122.88TB version of the D5-P5336 SSD. The D5-P5336 is a tall 2.5" SSD with a volume of 105 cubic centimeters. The weight is guesstimated at 300 grams.</p><p>A possible alternative are microSD cards. The highest capacity ones are 1.5 TB today. A microSD card weighs about 0.5 grams. The volume of a single card is about 0.165 cubic centimeters. So a microSD fits in the tall 2.5" SSD model roughly 636 times. Rounding up, the microSD's give us a nice single petabyte in the volume of a single tall 2.5" SSD, or almost a factor 10 difference. Interestingly, the weight of a single tall 2.5" SSD's volume is roughly equal to the weight of that same volume in microSD cards. So microSD cards it will be!</p><p>To keep things simple, let's work with the rounded numbers we have so far. 105 cubic centimeters worth of microSD cards will fit into the Ford LTD Wagon more than 25.000 times. However, that would be almost 10 million microSD cards, or almost 5000 kilograms of them. I can't find all the numbers for the Ford LTD Wagon, but the towing capacity I found was close to 1000 kg. I'm taking the towing capacity as an indication of the weight capacity of the car itself, even though there are different factors involved. Assuming a couple of humans and a bunch of stuff actually in the car during that towing, I'm picking a maximum of 1500 kg worth of microSD's. With two drivers, let's hope that the axles will hold and sacrifice a goat for zero speed bumps. 1500 kg would allow for 3 million microSD cards or 4500 petabytes.</p><p>One final note: we're ignoring the time it might take to transfer some data set from some storage array to 3 million microSD's (and to load them into the station wagon) before departing. We're also unsure about and ignoring any transfer time after arriving at the destination. I suspect these same assumptions were also in place about the tapes when the original quote was made.</p><p>The suggested drive will take 25 hours, and in that time the 800 Gbit/s connection will "only" transfer 9 petabytes. So with 4500 petabytes, the station wagon will transfer about 500 times more data than the 800 Gbit/s connection. Wow! You'd need a lot of multiplexing to offset the difference.</p><p>It's clear that the limiting factor is the weight capacity of the station wagon. A small truck or sturdy van would have been a more sensible choice. In any case, the station wagon wins hands down. Unless that old thing breaks down.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/bandwidth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bandwidth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/networking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>networking</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/stationwagon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stationwagon</span></a></p>
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