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RAID doesn’t work! | securitypitfalls
Testing md RAID5 over dm-integrity (spoiler: it does actually work).
Backblaze Blog » What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
Reliability figures from Backblaze's drive farm. My home RAID array's due for replacement this year, which means choosing which drives to go for; this is exactly the kind of data I was after.
to drive hard-disk reliability sata storage ... on 22 January 2014
Fixing sluggish write performance of USB flash (thumb) drives | Old Computer Junk
Tweaking filesystem alignment to match the flash block size can make a difference (presumably on USB sticks where the flash translation layer isn't smart enough to do this itself).
to flash io performance storage usb ... on 17 January 2014
Petabytes on a budget: How to build cheap cloud storage | Backblaze Blog
Lots of disks in a custom case, using SATA port extenders. I assume they don't care too much about performance -- although this might actually work OK for UKMS, with nice wide stripes to spread the load.
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tasty by Adam Sampson.