/r/storage/

r/storage

39k members
r/storage is a subreddit with 39k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses storage, ssd, dell, nvme, and raid, and they frequently recommend/review cloud storage solution.
A subreddit for enterprise level IT data storage-related questions, anecdotes, troubleshooting request/tips, and other related discussions.

Popular Themes in r/storage

#1
Solution Requests
: "Petabyte+ storage server recommendations"
18 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Netapp Training"
10 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "NFS over RDMA: Low Write Throughput (read 2x faster)"
4 posts
#4
News
: "Backblaze 2025 Year-End Drive Stats: Annual AFR Falls to 1.36% as High-Capacity Drives Dominate Fleet"
2 posts
#5
Ideas
: "The Art of Storage Performance Optimizations. Lessons learned from building simplyblock."
1 post
#6
Money Talk
: "Flash prices are mad +60%, will this kill flash only vendors?"
1 post
#7
Self-Promotion
: "Selling used storage"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/storage

#1

Storage

: "Best Storage for 120PB"
175 posts
#2

Ssd

: "Solidigm Ssd quality"
32 posts
#3

Dell

: "WTB: Active-Active SAN (Dell quote)"
23 posts
#4

Nvme

: "Nvme underperforms with sequential read-writes when compared with SCSI"
11 posts
#5

Raid

: "Has anyone had a Raid server repeatedly kill a drive in a particular number slot?"
11 posts
#6

Hdd

: "is it bad to use old, but barely used Hdd's for storage?"
11 posts
#7

Backup

: "LTO Backup software that doesn't have capacity-based licensing"
11 posts
#8

San

: "What do you like for a no frills, boring, rock solid San?"
8 posts
#9

Hard Drive

: "Why are all the Hard Drives already sold out"
8 posts
#10

Data

: "Wipe Data from a HUS110"
7 posts

Products Discussed in r/storage

#1
Amazon
3.8 from 4 reviews
#2
Backblaze
5.0 from 2 reviews
#3
Rclone
4.0 from 1 review

Member Growth in r/storage

Yearly
+8k members(24.6%)

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Last updated: June 3, 2026