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r/datastorage

7.8K members. The best post we have captured here reached 400 upvotes, which works out to 51 per 1,000 members.

51peak upvotes per 1,000 members
7.8Kmembers
400best post
331most comments
81posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

37% 35% 12% 11%
Question 37% Link 35% Image 12% Text 11% Gallery 4% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Discussion 36 News 26 Backup 6 Troubleshooting 4 Question 3 Help 3 Storage Setup 2 Data Transfer 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Memory capacity for all of 2027 has reportedly been booked and sold, with no more DRAM or HBM available

↑ 400 💬 124 link 2026

PCIe 5.0 SSDs are overkill, and manufacturers finally realized most people don't need them

↑ 323 💬 96 link 2026

Toshiba refuses to replace large hard drive that was under warranty - company offers refund at the purchase price, not the higher current retail price

↑ 278 💬 56 link 2026

'The retail SSD market has almost disappeared,' says Silicon Motion exec — PC OEMs are buying third-party drives as direct NAND supply dries up

↑ 270 💬 58 link 2026

SSD prices are rising, and here's how to make sure your current one lasts

↑ 207 💬 13 link 2026

Sandisk brings back affordable storage to rescue buyers from the SSD crisis — new 320 and 520 SATA SSDs are ready to launch

↑ 175 💬 27 link 2026

Your next SSD might be SATA again — here's why that's not a problem

↑ 173 💬 148 link 2026

Microsoft can now store 4.8 TB of data inside a glass plate roughly the size of a drink coaster—and estimates it could remain readable for 10,000 yea…

↑ 132 💬 41 text 2026

Memory prices have erased 20 years of progress in a single year, researcher says

↑ 127 💬 2 link 2026

Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September - iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

↑ 126 💬 29 link 2026

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/datastorage, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.