Arol Wright

The 2026 storage crisis: Why AI data centers are hoarding every hard drive on the market

The 2026 storage crisis: Why AI data centers are hoarding every hard drive on the market

Arol Wright March 1, 2026

Why spinning rust won't save you from the global SSD price surge

The SSD cache trap: Why NVMe drives won’t speed up your Plex NAS

The SSD cache trap: Why NVMe drives won’t speed up your Plex NAS

Arol Wright March 1, 2026

The engineering reason your NAS doesn't need an SSD cache

Burned write cycles and zero seek time: Why defragging an SSD is actively destroying it

Burned write cycles and zero seek time: Why defragging an SSD is actively destroying it

Arol Wright March 1, 2026

Here's why defragging is (mostly) not a thing anymore

120Gbps: Why Thunderbolt 5 is overkill for your SSD (but an eGPU miracle)

120Gbps: Why Thunderbolt 5 is overkill for your SSD (but an eGPU miracle)

Arol Wright February 27, 2026

You (probably) don't need Thunderbolt 5

The hidden speed penalty of smaller SSDs: Why NAND parallelization makes 2TB drives physically faster

The hidden speed penalty of smaller SSDs: Why NAND parallelization makes 2TB drives physically faster

Arol Wright February 26, 2026

Higher-capacity SSDs are also faster—here's why

Asynchronous vibrations: The physical reason mixing 5400 and 7200 RPM drives ruins your NAS

Asynchronous vibrations: The physical reason mixing 5400 and 7200 RPM drives ruins your NAS

Arol Wright February 26, 2026

Here's why you shouldn't mix different speed HDDs on your NAS

Turbine noise and head crashes: The physical limits that killed the 15,000 RPM hard drive

Turbine noise and head crashes: The physical limits that killed the 15,000 RPM hard drive

Arol Wright February 25, 2026

Why hard drives maxed out at 7,200 RPM: The engineering nightmare of spinning platters faster

The ROM chip trap: Why swapping a dead hard drive’s PCB will instantly crash its read/write heads

The ROM chip trap: Why swapping a dead hard drive’s PCB will instantly crash its read/write heads

Arol Wright February 24, 2026

How a simple PCB swap will permanently destroy your modern hard drive

The death of pure SLC SSDs: How modern TLC drives use hidden caches to fake their speed

The death of pure SLC SSDs: How modern TLC drives use hidden caches to fake their speed

Arol Wright February 24, 2026

Here's why you can't buy ultra-fast SLC and MLC drives

SSDs killed the dual-actuator HDD: Why two mechanical arms couldn’t save the hard drive

SSDs killed the dual-actuator HDD: Why two mechanical arms couldn’t save the hard drive

Arol Wright February 23, 2026

Why doubling a hard drive's IOPS still can't beat cheap NVMe

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