By Michael McGarrah ·
5 min read
Seagate USB drives hide SMART data behind UAS quirks. Disabling UAS via GRUB boot parameters unlocks full health monitoring without sacrificing stability.
By Michael McGarrah ·
5 min read
eMMC storage doesn't support SMART, but the JEDEC health reporting built into mmc-utils gives you life time estimation and pre-EOL status for Dell Wyse 3040 boot drives.
By Michael McGarrah ·
7 min read
Performance tuning Ceph on USB storage and constrained hardware — mClock configuration, IOPS optimization, and the realities of USB 3.0 as a storage tier.
By Michael McGarrah ·
6 min read
Ceph's nearfull warnings are capacity planning signals, not emergencies — if you understand the thresholds and respond before the cluster goes read-only.
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