I wonder how they do this. Are the drives even SAS/NVMe/some standard interface, or are they fully proprietary? What “logic” is being done on the controller/backplane vs. in the drive itself?

If they have moved significant amounts of logic such as bad block management and such to the backplane, it’s an interesting further example of “full circle” in the tech industry. (e.g. we started out using terminals, then went to locally running software, and now we’re slowly moving back towards hosted software via web apps/VDI.) I see no practical reason to do this other than (theoretically) reducing manufacturing costs and (definitely) pushing vendor lock-in. Not like we haven’t seen that sorta stuff done with e.g. NetApp messing with firmware on drives though.

However if they just mean that the 29TB disks are SAS drives and the enclosure firmware implements some sort of proprietary filesystem and that the disks are only officially supported in their enclosure, but the disk could operate on its own as just a big 29TB drive, we could in theory get these drives used and stick them in any NAS running ZFS or similar. (I’m reminded of how they originally pitched the small 16/32GB Optanes as “accelerators” and for a short time people weren’t sure if you could just use them as tiny NVMe SSDs - turned out you could. I have a Linux box that uses an Optane 16GB as a boot/log/cache drive and it works beautifully. Similarly those 800GB “Oracle accelerators” are just SSDs, one of them is my VM store in my VM box.)

That’s only your first package, you’re soon going to get your special edition steam deck that is so powerful it needs two chargers.

/storage.

It’s not the top level directory. I do have some other stuff on /data. 😂

I have a vision impairment.

OLED is the best thing to happen to display tech for me since high refresh rate CRTs.

OLED is literally an automatic justification for me. Don’t ask me why, but I can use even the best LCDs only for half as long as an OLED before eyestrain sets in.

It may not be a spec upgrade but for me that OLED display is all I need to justify an upgrade.

Now the really fun question. Will the OLED panel be available as a replacement part, and will that part work on the OG Deck… If so I will buy such a display and upgrade my old deck because why the hell not.

I present to you my 2Gbps synmmetric fiber link. No data cap. Real public IP (no CGNAT). $120/month after my promotional period ($75/month during).

I humbly request the poster of this message explain how I might obtain equivalent performance over a cell network for the same cost with no data cap.

When do I shut down?

1. When the power goes out and my UPS battery drains.
2. When I do a hardware upgrade.
3. If I want to rearrange equipment, and also when I moved this past summer.

That’s seriously about it.

Full disk encryption is the only way. Some action that forces the disks to unmount and wipes the keys from RAM. Could be as simple as a forced reboot depending on how you set things up…

Glue the edges together and make your own Surface Duo.