Time to repurpose all of my random mixed capacity HDDs in a bag somewhere, I guess.
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I've got 200TB of HDDs all with 80,000+ hours on them :(
Pray they don't break in the next 4 years.
I'll join you
We need to, but can we?
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| RAID | Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage |
| SMB | Server Message Block protocol for file and printer sharing; Windows-native |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| ZFS | Solaris/Linux filesystem focusing on data integrity |
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 12 acronyms.
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Could you also have a row for english?
- NAS: A weird spinny thing where you store your data. Both over the network.
- RAID: Multiple weird spinny things working together to recover the lost data if one of the weird spinny things dies.
- SSD: A weird spinny thing that doesn't spin. Currently prohibitively expensive, so can be ignored.
- SMB: A language that computers use to share files from the weird spinny things or printers with each other.
- ZFS: A method that your computer uses to keep track of how and where your files are on the weird spinny things.
Are they more spinny than they are weird? Or weirder than they are spinny?
The SSDs are definitely weirder than they are spinny but otherwise it depends. A 7200RPM weird spinny thing is for example more spinny than a 5400RPM but if you take 3 of the 5400RPM in a RAID, then the spinnines is aggregated, making it more spinny than a 7200RPM. But in doing so, you are multiplying the weirdiness, making it exponentially more weird than a single 7200RPM weird spinny thing. This has to do with how the weirdiness particles flow between the spinny things to make sure that you'll always be able to recover the weirdiness of one of the spinny things from the other spinny things in case of an untimely demise.
This is definitely food for thought. Junk food, but technically food.
Ram and HDD prices: 📈
Me: 😭
I had purchased first 12TB drive for 4 bay NAS last summer. These are fuckton expensive so couldnt get all 4. I finally saved up and bought 2nd 12TB drive to get to RAID 1 for redundancy. Not even month passed, WD reports no more drives. Shop where I got one reports out of stock. FUCK!
Fuck AI and fuck big tech. I got my 12tb cloud and will give you 0 money in near future.
Yeah. I have a RAIDz2 on super old version of FreeNAS. 8x4TB.
I’ve been needing to upgrade for about a year now. I’ve been waiting for the prices to go lower…. News about WD forced my hand for 8x18TB. Not $$ I was looking to spend, but fomo that my upgrade could now be much further away pushed me to just do it. :(
Realistically it's worse than that right? Where is your second and third 12tb drive for back ups? Raid is a nice to have but meaningless when it comes to back ups.
Most of my storage is media - movies and series. Immich, Nextcloud and personal files take little less than 300GB. I do backups weekly to NAS storage, monthly to storage SSD in my PC and to an external HDD. I am looking into way to somehow be able to backup to a rpi3 that I have installed at my father's place. This might cover my 3-2-1 needs, just need to figure out that 1.
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Yeah but I cannot find any HDDs
I am SO pissed off about this AI hardware grab causing global shortages, im about to revert to using fucking tape drives for storage and core rope memory as RAM.
Its by design, I swear. They don't have anywhere to run any of this gear, its all piling up somewhere.
Either that or it doesn't exist and what we're seeing is price gouging based on hypothetical demand based off of "letters of intent" that aren't actually worth the paper they're written on.
I think its the latter.
It’s definitely the latter. These are writing contracts to buy hardware that has yet to be produced for data centres that haven’t been built. All so they can satisfy a demand that doesn’t yet exist for a product no one is going to be willing to pay for.
It will crash. This whole grift is too expensive to keep going. The naysayers keep forgetting that hardware gets old, it wears out and fails, and gets superseded by newer models. The chip makers are riding high now because the idiotic belief of the market is that this will keep growing as the data centres keep being built and the AI companies will keep buying new hardware.
It just can’t. This candle is burning fast at both ends.
It just can’t. This candle is burning fast at both ends.
I hope you're right b/c right now feels like the classic "market can stay irrational longer than we can stay liquid" type situation.
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Mhm, waiting for ai bubble to burst so I can upgrade my current rig to something future proof
I run, my own:
- Mbin server
- Matrix server
- Nextcloud server
- GitLab server and Gitea server
- Speedtest server
- PlantUML server
- Wekan server
- BCH Explorer
- Grafana
- Mumble server
- Dozens of websites
- Proxmox instance that hosted its all, at home
I do believe, you may in fact, perhaps, be a nerd.
You don't happen to have a simple how-to or wiki for these services do you?
Official documentation is all well and good but sometimes it can be a nightmare to follow and understand (Nextcloud for example had me pulling my hair) for us mere nerdlings that haven't achieved full nerdhood yet.
Jellyfin is great. My latest addition to my media ecosystem was audiobookshelf which is really nice as well if you like to listen to ebooks.
Jellyfin and Immich jave stayed as mainstays after like 2 dozen projects I've tried on. That and a Samba share.
How was setting up immich? Looking to expand and that seems interesting.
Pretty easy.
Give it a go, I just finished the docker with tailscale setup. Using parts of this guide from Alex from tailscale https://youtu.be/guHoZ68N3XM (for the ones saying don't post yt links, I've not seen an add in the past 6 years or so, just use revanced) 2 hickups I had to overcome: a dns issue and different gpu passthrough then jellyfin uses). Reason was unpriviliged lxc in proxmox in both cases. But I prefer an lxc in this case. Just lost 2hrs looking back at old photos, it works great! Rdy for introducing it to my non tech wife!
Beginner here. What do you mean by a Samba share? Do you mean a shared network folder? Or something more elaborate?
Yes they mean a SMB share. A type of network share that works (mostly) with Linux and windows.
do NOT open SMB to the internet. You will get crypto'd in minutes. Just a warning for any newbs coming here.
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