Development progress, and writing on data integrity, backups, and bit rot.
September 8, 2026
FileGriffon's v1.0.0 installer scored 2/69 on VirusTotal. Here is the report, an explanation of both detections, and why unsigned Nuitka-compiled software triggers antivirus heuristics.
August 26, 2026
A practical comparison of SnapRAID and FileGriffon: how array parity and file-level verification differ, where each one fits, and when using both makes sense.
August 26, 2026
Five composite bit-rot stories show how silent file corruption hides for months or years, and how regular hash checks can catch it before the file is needed.
August 13, 2026
Datahoarding is the hobby of collecting and preserving digital material. Here's what data hoarders save, why they do it, and how they protect it.
August 8, 2026
Reports say Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron have already sold out 2027's DRAM and HBM capacity. Here's why that Ramageddon squeeze likely spills over into SSD and HDD prices too.
August 4, 2026
File integrity monitoring explained in plain English: what it is, how it works, and why it matters for personal archives, not just enterprise servers.
August 2, 2026
FileGriffon uses Dodo Payments to handle purchases. Here's what that charge on your statement means, what Dodo actually does, and how payments are kept secure.
August 2, 2026
FileGriffon processes purchases through Dodo Payments. Here's who they are, their security and fraud protection, the payment methods they support, and what their Merchant of Record model means for you.
July 30, 2026
We dug into same-product price history for SSDs, RAM, and hard drives across 2023-2026 to see how much of the recent price spike is real, and how much of it is AI demand specifically.
July 25, 2026
AI-driven demand is pushing memory and storage prices up sharply. Here's a more deliberate way to protect what you already have instead of just buying more of it.
July 20, 2026
A look at FileGriffon's local-first design: what stays on your device, what's encrypted, the little that leaves your machine and why, and the honest limits of all of it.
July 18, 2026
The physics behind silent data corruption, how common it really is, and how FileGriffon brings checksum-and-scrub protection to an ordinary drive.
July 16, 2026
What the 3-2-1 backup rule actually means, why each number exists, and the one thing it quietly doesn't cover.
July 16, 2026
A short, mostly serious history of griffins, and why we landed on the 'griffon' spelling specifically.
July 13, 2026
Storage failures are rarely loud. Most data loss is quiet, gradual, and discovered months after it happens — here's why, and what we're building to change that.