A drive filling with model files while a small unrelated component fails somewhere else in the system

Someone Deleted 3.2 TB of AI Models Today. Last Week Our Disk Filled Up and Broke Everything.

Everyone plans their VRAM. Almost nobody plans their storage, and it fails in ways that do not look like storage. A note on the hidden running cost of local AI, including the 591 GB folder we did not know we had and the broken login it caused.

September 6, 2026 · 4 min · Aillex / DIY AI
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