Questions tagged [storage]
Storage - refers to questions where data persistence and storage questions and techniques are asked.
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Why GUID Partition Table data lack the sector size?
The GPT (GUID Partition Table) is the most accepted modern standard for partitioning of a data storage device. Its unit for the offset and size of a partition is so-called sector*. Is it a well-...
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Architecture for downloading large number of large images
I am running a website for a customer who has terrabytes worth of images. Each JPG image is high-res (20MB) and belongs to a hierarchy like this:
Group A
SubGroup 1
subsubgroup a
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How does storage virtualization help?
I am trying to understand various types of virtualization techniques. The concept of Hardware virtualization/Virtual machine was simple enough.
However, I am struggling to understand the concept of ...
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Group set of commands as atomic transactions (C++)
We're designing the architecture of an embedded device (esp32). One of the tasks is that the device should connect to the internet and use a preprovisioned redeem code to register itself with our web ...
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What's stopping an app from using another platform's storage, for free?
Let me clarify on a bit of an abstract question.
I'm about to develop an app, through which users can capture and store images. Commercially, the main cost here that springs to mind is storage cost.
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Best practice for storing third party tools
Currently my company is storing the installers (and in some cases the installed directory copy) for some open source third party tools that our build uses. Were storing these files in our github repo ...
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Should I store non-editable items lists in a database?
Relational database is mostly used for storing editable user data.
But how about storing non-editable lists of information? Possible examples are:
GUI-related: main menu items, selectbox options, ...
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When to self-audit complex calculation [closed]
Given an app that manages appointment bookings, I'm separately storing purchases, bookings made, or cancellations (some of them non-refundable) and am required to show the sum of these, based on ...
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What is the size of the number 65535 in bytes? [closed]
As I got to know there are 256 possible combinations to get for 1 byte. If I understand it correctly, it should mean that you can display any number out of numbers 0-255 and this very number would use ...
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Best way to store and fetch image bytes?
I have a case in my startup where I need to fetch images in bytes as fast as possible.
At the moment I'm storing the images in Azure Storage then I fetch them on the run and cache them into my ...
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Understanding usage of quadtree to store location data
I was reading this article, which talks about storing location-based information. The author says that while Latitude and Longitude info for the locations can be stored in a SQL database, retrieving ...
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Serving content to authenticated users
I'm wanting to store lots of data in cloud storage - like S3.
I want some data to only be accessed by authorised users, one way I could do this is to authenticate the user on my service, download the ...
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What happens to the rest of memory address space if the data is less than 1 byte?
Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question I’m very new to this.
So my question is; within modern computers memory address space is a byte long, so what would happen to the rest of the address space ...
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Why shouldn't I be using SQLITE instead of the INI format in all cases?
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In an effort to store partial and full downloads to file in a clean manner, I had utilized QSettings which stores its key value pairs in the INI format in a single file.
https://doc.qt.io/qt-...
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Is background long running thread a good choice for disk IO?
I am building a storage engine software that allows concurrent data writing, now I have two different choices here:
Method 1. Background Long-Running Thread
Multiple user threads write to their own ...
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