Tech Couch

A Comfy Corner for Software, Security, Cloud, and AI

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storage

Choosing the right self-hosted S3 object storage service

A comparison of open source options and their tradeoffs

Btrfs vs ZFS

Making informed decisions which filesystem is right for you

Understanding how RAID 5 works

Striking a balance between fault tolerance, speed and usable disk space

A primer on LVM

Making the most of your storage devices

Choosing the right RAID setup

Making sense of pros and cons for RAID configurations

Understanding computer storage units and transfer speeds

Making sense of Gb, GB, GiB, Gbps and GBps

A Practical Guide to Linux Disk Encryption

Keeping disk contents safe from prying eyes

Checking disk health in Linux

Identify bad drives before they fail