SCSIknife is a compact and versatile solid state replacement solution for SCSI disk drives. SCSIknife emulates hard disk drives, CD-ROM drives, removal media, magneto-optical and tape drives from disk images files. SCSIknife is easy to set up and use, by simply placing disk image files on a SD or MicroSD card. SCSIknife can also be used in host/initiator mode, where it will automatically copy the content of an SCSI drive straight to the SD card without computer intervention.
SCSIknife runs the popular open-source ZuluSCSI pico firmware and is simple to use and configure.
Three different configurations are availiable:
- with a 50 pin HE0-19 connector (desktops and servers)
- 2.5" SCSI hard drive connector (laptop)
- all connectors
An open-source distributed storage service you can self-host to fullfill many needs. Can do everything from hosting to working as a backup target. Designed to make it easy to have multiple replicas in widely geographically dispersed locations.
Comes as a single no-dependency executable. Written by sysadmins, so they understand how much you don't want to dick around with stuff until it works. Tries to be as resilient as possible. If you really want, you can run a copy on everything you own to build a storage field. Has very lightweight hardware requirements. Implements the S3 API.
Give it the number and capacity of drives, the RAID level, and maybe some options and it'll calculate how much space your btrfs volume will have.
LOCKSS is based on the idea that communities are in the best position to ensure long-term access to data that is under their control. Since 1999, LOCKSS has provided the foundation for robust digital preservation of all types of digital content for libraries, publishers, and other content providers and stewards. We have done so through research, development, and maintenance of proven technologies built to mitigate a comprehensive threats to data persistence; delivering reliable service and support; and fostering a community of self-determined digital preservation practitioners. We have a long track record of leadership in digital preservation and count as partners many of the world’s leading memory institutions.
Our technical architecture and approach offers protections for stored information that are not provided by other digital preservation systems. We have built the system based on a comprehensive and openly-articulated threat model that critically considers the kinds of threats responsible for the vast incidence of real-world data loss. The rationale for our system design is furthermore elaborated in award-winning and peer-reviewed published research.
A dongle that plugs into a Centronic 50 SCSI port. You plug a microSD card into it and it shows up as a SCSI drive. Some models have a wifi interface on board, too.
nwipe is a fork of the dwipe command originally used by Darik's Boot and Nuke (DBAN). nwipe was created out of a need to run the DBAN dwipe command outside of DBAN, in order to allow its use with any host distribution, thus giving better hardware support.
nwipe is a program that will securely erase the entire contents of disks. It can wipe a single drive or multiple disks simultaneously. It can operate as both a command line tool without a GUI or with a ncurses GUI as shown in the example below:
Warning For some of nwipes features such as smart data in the PDF certificate, HPA/DCO detection and other uses, nwipe utilises smartmontools and hdparm. Therefore both hdparm & smartmontools are a mandatory requirement if you want all of nwipes features to be fully available. If you do not install smartmontools and hdparm, nwipe will provide a warning in the log that these programs cannot be found but will still run but many important features may not work as they should do.
Detects drives that fail during the clearing process and tells you which ones they are so you can physically destroy them. Supports all of the common techniques, from filling the drive with zeroes to DoD 5220.22M seven pass song and dance. Packaged by multiple distros.
Add dynamic content, forms or personalization to your static site, manage smart home, monitor server room temperatures in hundreds of locations using Raspberry Pi, or simply play with the API - JsonStorage is super simple and scales up to your needs.
A dongle that plugs into a Centronic 50 SCSI port. You plug a microSD card into it and it shows up as a SCSI drive. Some models have a wifi interface on board, too.
How to hack a microSD-to-SD card adapter to work with a 3.3 volt microcontroller.
CryFS encrypts your files, so you can safely store them anywhere. It works well together with cloud services like Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive and others. Easy to setup and works with a lot of cloud storage providers. It runs in the background - you won't notice it when accessing your files in your daily workflow. Your data only leaves your computer in encrypted form. File contents, metadata and directory structure are all secure from someone who hacked your cloud. Released under LGPL.
Can be used locally but that's not its primary use case.
Two directories: A basedir that holds the encrypted files, and a mountdir which you interact with. The basedir is what gets stored remotely, synced, or whatever. Note: Not safe for concurrent access!
Files are split into equal size blocks, encrypted individually. Metadata and directory structures are also represented as those blocks for obfuscation. Block cipher used, random key generated, key encrypted with passphrase.
In Apt, Pacman, Homebrew, Nix repositories.
Default encryption algorithm: XChaCha20-Poly1305, scrypt for key derivation.
Github: https://github.com/cryfs/cryfs
stree is a CLI tool designed to visualize the directory tree structure of an S3 bucket. By inputting an S3 bucket/prefix and utilizing various flags to customize your request, you can obtain a colorized or non-colorized directory tree right in your terminal.
Uses machine learning to identify files in misconfigured buckets across a large number of providers, including AWS, Azure, Digital Ocean, GCP, and Alibaba. Requires an account to get results but the free tier is pretty useful in itself.
API documentation: https://openbuckets.io/api-docs
You have to have a Bounty Hunter subscription or higher to use it, though. Good luck unsubscribing from their mailing list, even asking them personally to help doesn't work.
cloudgrep is grep for cloud storage. It currently supports searching log files, optionally compressed with gzip (.gz) or zip (.zip), in AWS S3, Azure Storage or Google Cloud Storage. Directly searching cloud storage, without indexing logs into a SIEM or Log Analysis tool, can be faster and cheaper. There is no need to wait for logs to be ingested, indexed, and made available for searching. It searches files in parallel for speed.
Hard Disk Sentinel is a multi-OS SSD and HDD monitoring and analysis software. Its goal is to find, test, diagnose and repair hard disk drive problems, report and display SSD and HDD health, performance degradations and failures. Hard Disk Sentinel gives complete textual description, tips and displays/reports the most comprehensive information about the hard disks and solid state disks inside the computer and in external enclosures. Many different alerts and report options are available to ensure maximum safety of your valuable data.
No need to use separate tools to verify internal hard disks, external hard disks, SSDs, hybrid disk drives (SSHD), disks in RAID arrays and Network Attached Storage drives as these are all included in a single software. In addition Hard Disk Sentinel Pro detects and displays status and SMART information about LTO tape drives and appropriate industrial (micro) SD cards and eMMC devices too.
Commercial software.
The BackBit Pro Cartridge is a universal instant loading cartridge capable of interfacing with a multitude of vintage computers and game consoles via proprietary adapters, including:
- Apple II+/IIe/IIgs Slot
- Atari 8-bits
- Commodore 8-bits
Supports most, if not all, original cartridge-based titles for each machine, and additionally supports tape, disk, and RAM expansion for a limited number of systems. Capable of supporting most modern homebrews. Bankswitching schemes up to 1MB in size can be implemented for nearly all platforms (if they aren’t already). Flash saving support can often be implemented. Special coprocessors can sometimes be implemented. Some adapters feature additional hardware for various things, such as audio emulation, copy protection bypass, joystick plugs, reset support, and more!
Loading is always instant. No need to take a coffee break while your program is loading. Built-in versioning system preserves your original files (on systems/configurations that support saving). Supports cartridge images up to 1MB in size. Real-time-clock. One-button diagnostic mode helps you identify system faults (on most systems).
The NeoFloppy is an non-mechanical / solid-state media format optimized for handling, transport, storage, archive and subsequent use. It is only using the mechanical specification of the 3,5" FDD to a specific extent. Namely: Drive mechanisms (except the head since the drive only needs to vertically contact pins behind the shutter) and the media dimensions.
A site which scrapes and analyzes Amazon at least daily to collect hard drives for sale. New or used, price per terabyte or gigabyte, price per unit, capacity, manufacturer, warranty, link to buy.
No machine-readable feeds, so you'll have to do this manually.
FUSE integration for Backblaze B2 Cloud storage.
In the AUR.
Sells storage adapters, upgrades, and accessories for classic 8-bit computers, including the Atari and Commodore.