/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
: "Modern SAN experiment. Software?"
20 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Fiber Channel as a attack channel?"
8 posts
#3
Pain & Anger
: "NFS over RDMA: Low Write Throughput (read 2x faster)"
4 posts
#4
News
: "Micron 6600 ION 245TB SSD Review: A Quarter Petabyte Per Drive Bay"
3 posts
#5
Ideas
: "The Art of Storage Performance Optimizations. Lessons learned from building simplyblock."
2 posts
#6
Money Talk
: "Flash prices are mad +60%, will this kill flash only vendors?"
2 posts
#7
Self-Promotion
: "Selling used storage"
1 post

Popular Topics in r/storage

#1

Storage

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

Ssd

: "Micron 6600 ION 245TB Ssd Review: A Quarter Petabyte Per Drive Bay"
34 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"
10 posts
#8

San

: "HP San Woes"
8 posts
#9

Hard Drive

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

Cloud

: "Best Cloud setup for a remote media company storing 15+ TB of footage per month?"
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 26, 2026