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- Five-Disk Floppy RAID: 4MB of Blistering Fast Storage (2009) https://www.wired.com/2009/05/five-disk-floppy-raid-4mb-of-blistering-fast-storage/ 80 comments
- Dirvish: a fast, disk-based, rotating network backup system http://dirvish.org/ 6 comments
- Feather: A Fast On-Disk Format for Data Frames for R and Python http://blog.rstudio.org/2016/03/29/feather/ 75 comments
- Pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager https://pnpm.io/ 2 comments
- Show HN: Dut – a fast Linux disk usage calculator https://codeberg.org/201984/dut 148 comments
- pnpm: Fast, disk space efficient package manager for JavaScript https://pnpm.io/ 168 comments
- Show HN: t2md – convert Trello to markdown folders on disk, fast https://github.com/GSGBen/t2md 15 comments
- Balena Etcher Pro – Fast write to multiple cards or USB disks at once https://www.balena.io/etcher/pro/ 111 comments
- Erase your disk: Secure and fast. http://www.damln.com/log/fast-disk-secure-erase/ 9 comments
- Fast-moving features in the debris disk around AU Microscopii http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v526/n7572/full/nature15705.html 7 comments science
- RAM-only VPN: guide to using fast and secure, yet volatile RAM-disks for Docker container hosting https://coin.host/blog/why-and-how-to-use-ram-disk-for-docker-containers-on-ubuntu-a-comprehensive-guide 22 comments selfhosted
- GitHub - guycipher/btree: An embedded disk BTree written in GO. BTree is optimized for fast search and key's with many values. (v0.5.0 release!) https://github.com/guycipher/btree/tree/main 2 comments golang
- dut: A fast disk usage calculator for Linux https://codeberg.org/201984/dut 41 comments linux
- Fast, efficient, no-nonsense disk image mounting for macOS https://github.com/sveinbjornt/FastDMG 8 comments macapps
- AMD 3D V-Cache CPU memory used to create incredibly fast RAM disk https://www.techspot.com/news/100995-amd-3d-v-cache-cpu-memory-used-create.html 56 comments amd
- Sampler Feedback Streaming demo shows how the feature will use fast storage to greatly reduce memory requirements. The demo, in benchmark mode, hits and maintains 1.7 GB/s read speed from disk. Uses very little VRAM. https://compusemble.com/insights/home/how-sampler-feedback-streaming-works-in-tandem-with-fast-storage-to-reduce-memory-requirements 6 comments hardware
- Parallel Disk Usage (pdu) is a highly parallelized, blazing fast directory tree analyzer written in Rust https://github.com/ksxgithub/parallel-disk-usage 39 comments linux
- Parallel Disk Usage (pdu) — A highly parallelized, blazing fast disk usage visualizer https://gist.github.com/KSXGitHub/b8dacc7753ae56ae51cd599e779014c1 7 comments rust
- Gdu - fast disk usage analyzer https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/kokros/gdu_fast_disk_usage_analyzer/ 6 comments archlinux
- Gdu - fast disk usage analyzer https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kokhoc/gdu_fast_disk_usage_analyzer/ 54 comments linux
- Gdu - fast disk usage analyzer https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/kok7ob/gdu_fast_disk_usage_analyzer/ 4 comments golang
- A Simple & Fast Python Key-Value Store (put, get, delete), and Data is Persistent to Disk. https://github.com/vidardb/pyvidardb 5 comments programming
- Disk Usage Analyzer v2.3.8 now nearly twice as fast in interactive mode https://github.com/byron/dua-cli/releases/tag/v2.3.8 9 comments rust
- Very fast dump/load of hash map to disk. https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/d1a5z9/very_fast_dumpload_of_hash_map_to_disk/ 115 comments cpp
- "Geth fast sync by 57%, reduce disk reads by 44% and writes by 26%" https://twitter.com/peter_szilagyi/status/1119366286318948353 15 comments ethereum
- GitHub - pnpm/pnpm: 📦🚀 Fast, disk space efficient package manager https://github.com/pnpm/pnpm 38 comments javascript
- pnpm · Fast, disk space efficient package manager https://pnpm.js.org/ 2 comments javascript
- pnpm · Fast, disk space efficient package manager https://pnpm.js.org/ 57 comments programming
- pnpm · Fast, disk space efficient package manager https://pnpm.js.org/ 4 comments node
- If you were to spin a disk fast enough, would relativity cause its border to be older than its center? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4yyjv5/if_you_were_to_spin_a_disk_fast_enough_would/ 6 comments askscience
- protip: to back up an entire partition or disk, use ddrescue. It's *really* fast. https://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ 9 comments linux
- WinDirStat too slow? Try WizTree - a blazing fast NTFS only disk space analyzer http://antibody-software.com/web/software/software/wiztree-finds-the-files-and-folders-using-the-most-disk-space-on-your-hard-drive/ 29 comments sysadmin
- A giant cloud of hydrogen gas, clocked at more than 150 miles per second per second, is closing in very fast on the Milky Way, likely setting off a huge burst of star formation. At its current speed, the cloud will collide with interstellar gas in the Milky Way's disk in less than 40 million years http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/01/galaxyalert-gigantic-gas-cloud-on-collision-course-with-milky-way-a-2011-most-popular.html 14 comments space
- Solid-state disks offer 'fast erase' features http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewarticlebasic&articleid=331879&source=nlt_am 19 comments netsec
- A new design for Linux's VM uses system RAM as a fast RAM disk, with automatic sync to magnetic media http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1829360654;pp;1 68 comments programming
- Ramback: Turn a large amount of system RAM into a fast RAM disk with automatic sync to magnetic media. http://lwn.net/articles/272534/ 6 comments linux
- DUA 2.0: explore disk interactively and optionally clean it (fast!) https://crates.io/crates/dua-cli 18 comments rust
- MapDB provides concurrent TreeMap and HashMap backed by disk storage. It is a fast, scalable and easy to use embedded Java database https://github.com/jankotek/mapdb 8 comments java
- ncdu -- du with ncurses interface; fast, easy and effective way to quickly find disk hogs http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu 37 comments linux
- MapDB provides concurrent Maps, Sets and Queues backed by disk storage or off-heap-memory. It is a fast and easy to use embedded Java database engine. This project is more than 12 years old, you may know it under name JDBM. http://www.mapdb.org/ 10 comments java