Erasure-Coding

• VAST Data's '29x Data Reduction' Claims: The Storage Industry's Most Brazen Lies

  VAST Data's co-founder claims customers see 8x to 29x capacity advantages versus HDFS. We expose the fraudulent math, the deliberate straw man, and why VAST has become the storage industry's most prolific source of misleading claims.

• MinIO ExaPOD: Credible Architecture, Questions on Methodology

  MinIO's exabyte-scale reference architecture makes defensible claims backed by historical benchmarks. We examine what's verifiable, what needs more transparency, and how the commodity approach compares to appliance vendors.