diff --git a/web/src/lib/storage/index.ts b/web/src/lib/storage/index.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2ddeb15e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/lib/storage/index.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import type { AbstractStorage } from "./storage";
+import { MemoryStorage } from "./memory";
+import { OPFSStorage } from "./opfs";
+
+export function init(expectedSize?: number): Promise<AbstractStorage> {
+    if (OPFSStorage.isAvailable()) {
+        return OPFSStorage.init();
+    }
+
+    if (MemoryStorage.isAvailable()) {
+        return MemoryStorage.init(expectedSize || 0);
+    }
+
+    throw "no storage method is available";
+}
diff --git a/web/src/lib/storage/memory.ts b/web/src/lib/storage/memory.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f238b1a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/web/src/lib/storage/memory.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+import { AbstractStorage } from "./storage";
+
+export class MemoryStorage extends AbstractStorage {
+    #chunkSize: number;
+    #actualSize: number = 0;
+    #chunks: Uint8Array[] = [];
+
+    constructor(chunkSize: number) {
+        super();
+        this.#chunkSize = chunkSize;
+    }
+
+    static async init(expectedSize: number) {
+        const MB = 1024 * 1024;
+        const chunkSize = Math.min(512 * MB, expectedSize);
+
+        const storage = new this(chunkSize);
+
+        // since we expect the output file to be roughly the same size
+        // as inputs, preallocate its size for the output
+        for (
+            let toAllocate = expectedSize;
+            toAllocate > 0;
+            toAllocate -= chunkSize
+        ) {
+            storage.#chunks.push(new Uint8Array(chunkSize));
+        }
+
+        return storage;
+    }
+
+    async res() {
+        // if we didn't need as much space as we allocated for some reason,
+        // shrink the buffers so that we don't inflate the file with zeroes
+        const outputView: Uint8Array[] = [];
+
+        for (let i = 0; i < this.#chunks.length; ++i) {
+            outputView.push(
+                this.#chunks[i].subarray(
+                    0,
+                    Math.min(this.#chunkSize, this.#actualSize),
+                ),
+            );
+
+            this.#actualSize -= this.#chunkSize;
+            if (this.#actualSize <= 0) {
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+
+        return new Blob(outputView);
+    }
+
+    #expand(size: number) {
+        while (size > this.#chunkSize * this.#chunks.length) {
+            this.#chunks.push(new Uint8Array(this.#chunkSize));
+        }
+    }
+
+    async write(data: Uint8Array | Int8Array, pos: number) {
+        const writeEnd = pos + data.length;
+        this.#expand(writeEnd);
+
+        const chunkIndex = pos / this.#chunkSize | 0;
+        const offset = pos - (this.#chunkSize * chunkIndex);
+
+        if (offset + data.length > this.#chunkSize) {
+            this.#chunks[chunkIndex].set(
+                data.subarray(0, this.#chunkSize - offset),
+                offset,
+            );
+            this.#chunks[chunkIndex + 1].set(
+                data.subarray(this.#chunkSize - offset),
+                0,
+            );
+        } else {
+            this.#chunks[chunkIndex].set(data, offset);
+        }
+
+        this.#actualSize = Math.max(writeEnd, this.#actualSize);
+        return data.length;
+    }
+
+    async destroy() {
+        this.#chunks = [];
+    }
+
+    static isAvailable() {
+        return true;
+    }
+}
diff --git a/web/src/lib/storage/storage.ts b/web/src/lib/storage/storage.ts
index 8ab173ca..4df68633 100644
--- a/web/src/lib/storage/storage.ts
+++ b/web/src/lib/storage/storage.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 export abstract class AbstractStorage {
-    static init(): Promise<AbstractStorage> {
+    static init(_expected_size: number): Promise<AbstractStorage> {
         throw "init() call on abstract implementation";
     }