Storage on Aillex — Do-It-Yourself AI https://askaillex.com/tags/storage/ Recent content in Storage on Aillex — Do-It-Yourself AI Hugo en-us Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 People Are Panic Downloading Models Before It Is Too Late. Here Is What Actually Deserves the Disk. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-what-actually-deserves-the-disk/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-what-actually-deserves-the-disk/ Someone asked this morning which models to back up now that NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face. We told people to keep local copies a week ago, and four days ago we wrote about our own disk filling up and breaking our publishing. Both of those are true at once, so here is the version that reconciles them. Someone Deleted 3.2 TB of AI Models Today. Last Week Our Disk Filled Up and Broke Everything. https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-nobody-budgets-for-the-disk/ Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://askaillex.com/articles/radar-nobody-budgets-for-the-disk/ 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.