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EOS – distributed storage system

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

EOS is CERN’s distributed storage system for large datasets, offering XRootD access, FUSE mounting, quotas and configurable data protection.

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DAOS – distributed storage platform for HPC and AI

November 5, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

DAOS provides distributed storage for HPC and AI with transactional object access, parallel filesystems, replication and erasure coding.

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3FS – high-performance distributed file system

November 4, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

3FS is a distributed file system for AI workloads, combining RDMA networks, NVMe storage, strong consistency and parallel checkpointing.

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MicroCloud – automated private cloud infrastructure

November 3, 2026 Steve Emms Internet

MicroCloud creates small private clouds with LXD virtual machines, Ceph storage, OVN networking and automated cluster configuration.

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YaST Expert Partitioner – advanced storage partitioning tool

October 22, 2026 Steve Emms System Software

YaST Expert Partitioner manages Linux storage with partitions, filesystems, LVM, software RAID, encryption, Bcache and NFS mounts.

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Cloud storage

Trove – self-hosted file storage

October 7, 2026 Steve Emms Internet, Web Apps

Trove is a self-hosted file storage platform with sharing, S3 support, quotas, search, OIDC and optional video transcoding.

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elbencho – distributed storage benchmark

September 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

elbencho is a distributed storage benchmark measuring latency, throughput and IOPS across file systems, object stores, block devices and GPUs.

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git-annex – manage large files across Git repositories

November 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Programming

git-annex manages large files outside Git history, tracking copies across local drives, servers and cloud storage with safety policies.

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fio – scriptable I/O tool for storage benchmarks and drive testing

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fio is a flexible I/O workload generator and benchmark tool for testing storage performance, latency, throughput, IOPS, and reliability.

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Benchmarking

GNOME Disks – view, modify and configure disks and media

October 7, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, System Software, Utilities

GNOME Disks is a graphical utility for inspecting, partitioning, formatting, benchmarking, monitoring, and configuring storage devices.

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Benchmarking

KDiskMark – HDD and SSD benchmark tool

October 3, 2023 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

KDiskMark is a friendly Linux storage benchmark built on fio, with configurable tests, graphical and terminal interfaces, and reports.

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Hard disk image

sdparm – inspect and configure SCSI device parameters

September 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

sdparm inspects and modifies SCSI device settings, including mode pages, caching, power management and device identification data.

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Filelight

7 of the Best Free Linux Disk Usage Analyzers

October 20, 2017 Steve Emms Software, System Software, Utilities

A disk usage analyzer is a utility which helps users to visualize the disk space being used by each folder and files on a hard disk or other storage media. This type of application often generates a graphical chart to help the visualization process.

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