SeaweedFS: Distributed Storage with Commodity Equipment

Maintaining a home lab with a diverse fleet of servers is a constant balancing act, but the real challenge is finding a way to pool mismatched, leftover drives across separate machines without turning storage administration into a second full-time job. Over time, my server farm accumulated an assortment of mismatched disks—a fast NVMe SSD on one machine, a spinning mechanical HDD on another, and a…