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A new project called Uberblok presents ZFS's internal mechanisms as a series of animated exhibits, each tied directly to specific lines in the OpenZFS zfs-2.4.4 codebase at commit 71a9f9578616. Every animation and code excerpt links back to the actual source, covering concepts like checksums, copy-on-write, and crash consistency that protect against disk failures and interrupted writes.
Seoul-based SSD controller maker FADU introduced File-Semantic SSD (FS-SSD) at the 2026 OCP Global Summit, a design that moves filesystem logic into the SSD so GPUs, DPUs, and NICs can access files without a host filesystem, block layer, or storage-server CPU. In FADU's preliminary NFS-over-NVMe test on its FC6161 Gen6 controller, throughput held around 460,000 ops/s whether the server used 16 cores or just one, far outperforming Linux NFS-over-RDMA, which dropped from about 150,000 to 40,000 ops/s. FADU says the technology is still under active development, with Gen6-host results expected by Q1 2027 and partner samples by Q3 2027.
A threat actor claims to have exfiltrated 10.6 terabytes of data from PingCAP's TiDB Cloud platform over 88 six-hourly extractions spanning nearly two months, releasing an initial 200GB tranche publicly. The alleged haul includes control-plane databases, billing and cost records, source code, Jira and CRM data, and customer details covering 180,046 tenant organisations, 403,262 emails and over 115,000 plaintext API keys.
A guide outlines several ways to boost performance on an aging iPhone, centered mainly on freeing up storage space. It recommends checking Settings > General > iPhone Storage to identify space hogs like photos, videos and messages, enabling iCloud Photos optimization to offload full-resolution images, and clearing Safari's stored website data.
Dell's XPS 13 and Apple's entry-level MacBook still ship with 8GB of RAM, but prices have risen sharply this year—Dell's base configuration climbed $100 and Apple's MacBook went from $599 to $699 amid broader June price hikes. TrendForce reports that memory, storage and CPUs now account for 68 percent of a mainstream laptop's bill of materials.
Apple discontinued the iPhone mini line, but a community of users is reportedly still holding onto their devices rather than upgrading to larger current models. Owners describe accepting tradeoffs like degraded battery life, limited storage and overheating in exchange for keeping the smaller form factor.
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S10 FE Plus, a 13.1-inch Android tablet with 256GB of storage and included S Pen support, is now priced at $599.99 on Amazon, a $220 cut from its original price.
Three copies, two kinds of media, one off-site. The rule is old because it keeps surviving the specific ways people actually lose files.
A technical analysis examines how far current computing technologies remain from fundamental physical limits, comparing silicon-based energy efficiency, memory density, and data transmission against theoretical bounds like the Holevo limit. The piece notes DNA can store a bit in about 30 atoms versus a theoretical 125-atom cube, and that companies like Nvidia and Broadcom are shipping optical interconnects built directly into chip packaging to cut energy use per transmitted bit.
A network drive solves a specific problem: one copy of your files that every device can reach and that you own. It is not a backup, and that distinction decides how you set it up.
Storage drives often display less capacity in an operating system than their advertised size, with one tested 512GB drive registering just 477GB accessible in Windows. The roughly 35GB gap mainly stems from differing methods manufacturers and operating systems use to calculate data size, rather than deliberate shortchanging. In some cases, pre-installed software also claims a portion of a device's total storage before a user ever touches it.
Android phones let users check which apps consume the most storage via Settings > Device Care > Storage > Apps, where apps can be uninstalled or archived. Archiving removes an app's core files and temporary data while keeping login credentials and personal settings intact for easy reinstallation. Android also offers an 'auto-archive' feature that automatically archives rarely used apps when storage runs low, which Google says can free up nearly 60 percent of an app's storage space without deleting its data.