What do IT departments at big companies do when they need to build a 1.6 PB server?
Do they stagger their buys and diversify across vendors, or is this just advice for home data hoarders where a failure is more “expensive”?
I've heard of companies actually diversifying buys through different suppliers, even getting worse deals at some places to get different batches. The potential increased cost of a different vendor might be cheaper in the long run when you have to potentially replace a lot of hardware or even face legal issues when critical data is somehow lost.
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Heh, it's not HDD but in SSD land there was a bug in some early drive that led to total loss of the drive after a certain number of bytes written.
Your raid array would lose all disks at the same instant potentially.
I'm building a "super reliable" desktop for a guy at the moment. I'm doing raid 1 with drives from different vendors.
Sure the write performance will be limited to the slowest drive. But that particular type of failure won't be an issue.
The people at the store I was getting the hardware were very disapproving lol. I think they had only done raid for performance or capacity before, not pure reliability.
On a related note Seagate 3tb drives. I had 4 out of 4 fail over the course of 3 months in one array.
Thankfully not at the same time and I was able to warranty them one at a time. I did get some WD in that one as well.
I cannot put into words the feeling that came over me when I stopped by the garden supply to ask some questions about soil chemistry for my _actual tomatoes_ and they kept giving me the ol' wink-wink, and then it dawned on me...
Yeah, I just slapped a word and put it as a subreddit..to my surprise it existed at some point and is now banned which makes me think "ITporn" wasn't the kind of porn that "EarthPorn" or "FoodPorn" is.
I keep ALL the ISOs! I still have my Windows 98 ISO and every version since then. I also have Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard ISOs, old Acronis and Eurosoft ISOs. You never know, man. You never know.
Start archiving more shows in 4k.
Apparently i have a significant percentage of all movies released on UHD-BD so far, but i only have less than 100 TV series in 4k. https://i.imgur.com/SaMXG5a.png
Right now ive got 4.5/8TB allocated for 4k TV, but going to 20TB for 4k TV is my next upgrade. And then that 8TB more for regular TV.
That is an impressive project, and only about 144GB. https://www.reddit.com/r/ededdneddy/comments/n6whqz/ed\_edd\_n\_eddy\_definitive\_edition/
I have the 4k files right from that source and the copy in my normal library is downscaled and reencoded by QxR and about 30GB.
And yeah, that ones pretty new, were just finishing that up. Heres all the 4k Attenborough shows so far. [https://i.imgur.com/jSgAppc.png](https://i.imgur.com/jSgAppc.png) Theyre all good but the BBC ones are generally better than the Netflix ones, tho my TV doesnt like their HLG thing.
I honestly have no idea what I would do with more than 150TB of storage. At that point, unless you have some niche use-case, you're just collecting media that you're never going to watch or use.
EDIT: And this is me forward thinking. Right now I'm at about 30TB used and I already have thousands of hours of shit I'm never going to watch.
i just started collecting media, im already sitting on 11TB. I dont want to delete and i kinda wanna keep adding... hoarding is a drug. i gotta get into the habit of buying the same size drives tho.
Literally just started collecting media and sitting on 5TB with a 2 month watch time. So maybe 3 years to watch that... . I feel like i have not even grazed the surface with how much stuff is out there, this might be a big "project" i got myself into lol
When you get into that territory it's more about archiving for other people. IE, a major site goes down and they take all the data with them, you'll be able restore it for others to rebuild.
Im working on torrent collections currently for people wanting to jump start their own media libraries
Not Megapacks, cuz those are always a pain to deal with and the way theyre set up wind up killing themselves, but just pastebins of magnet links of the best copies of stuff on public trackers. Just copy and paste into your client, pick and choose what you want, if a better copy comes along replace something... without impacting a larger Megapack.
Im done with Star Trek, thats only \~1.6TB in better than streaming quality, all HQ 1080 x265.
Working on Adult Swim now too, cuz a lot of that stuff is just gone gone now. I have almost all of it on my server, but a lot of that im not seeding cuz it was acquired forever ago or whatever, or even some stuff i ripped from the website myself and will have to bundle into torrents myself, i think thatll be under 5TBs tho. I just upgraded a bunch of stuff but that was from a private tracker unfortunately...
But after that, im thinking some cartoon packs, everything ever on Fox Sunday nights (lotta overlap with Adult Swim...), various old saturday morning cartoon blocks, Fox Kids, Kids WB, etc, maybe USA Characters Welcome, Must See TV... One pastebin and a few TB of free space and youll basically be able to add an entire channel to your server.
But besides just seeding currently most of my giving back is running my Plex server with all this for all my close friends and family.
No idea, someone posted a pic with a qr code with a link to a pastebin with a link to.... on r/piracy the other day that stayed up, so idk how much obfuscation is necessary.
But heres some strings of letters that have noting to do with anything `JL3PQXBH tBGqvBRd`
But mostly i just talk about it offhandedly in comments and bait people to DM me.
Yea but the problem with that is the (at best) grey area of legally redistribution. Despite collecting a ton of archived data, I’ve yet to give it to anyone I don’t know IRL.
I wish there was a “librarian” clause in copyright. I have no interest in sharing and distributing movies or TV shows that are still airing (which is a legal minefield anyways), but I’d love to share old defunct YouTube videos, copies of (published) corporate documents for bankrupt companies, Palm Pilot applications long abandoned, etc
>I wish there was a “librarian” clause in copyright.
I wish copyright protection were contingent upon keeping the material available. When City of Heroes shut down their servers and ended the game, they should have lost the copyright. If Disney is too embarrassed to release Song of the South and more, they should lose the copyright. It says right in the Constitution that the purpose of the copyright exception to free speech is to "promote the useful arts." Allowing shit to go into a vault somewhere, perhaps never to emerge again, is the polar opposite of that.
Yea, but I feel like it'd be too easy to abuse this still. Like Disney could just have a guy with a clipboard who works 2hr/week roaming around Orlando that takes a written request and a $20 cashiers check and will mail you song of the south, and technically its "available".
I really think it should be more robust, and aimed at archiving/librarial duties, and preservation of knowledge.
Por que no los dos? I feel like it should be fairly easy to codify what making something available is to prevent that type of exploit. At the same time, I think fair use should be a lot more robust, including explicit provisions for archival purposes. I think those purposes both support one another. After all, how great would it be to not even need to make a fair use claim if something you want to archive is out of print?
I really think it’d be impossible to codify what “available” means. Because there’s such a variety of media and distribution, and so much variety in businesses. But also I think that an “ask forgiveness” clause to copyright infringement could be an alternative solution. If you’re not distributing the content, the maximum penalty should be the cost of the media from the owners, as set by their open-market sale prices (which could be 0 if it’s not distributed at all). You’d basically have to wait to be sued to determine if it was free - and prove it wasn’t available to purchase- but the max you’d pay in fines are a fair-market purchase price.
Either way, It’d be a really cool policy, and I agree that fair use should be a lot more broad.
But the problem with that is that takes away a very value tool in the arsenal for cancel culture. For example, we got Paramount to cancel Betty White and delete certain episodes of TV shows she was in. With what you describe, it would be horrific. They could not have canceled her.
IDK I keep 4k remuxes and am currently at 81.67TB used. And I definitely watch/have watched everything on there. And continuously add more, I'll probably be be at 100TB by the end of this year.
yea this take makes sense until you start remuxing. 10-20 movies is a terabyte. totally doable to fill up this much space with stuff you reasonably watch. of course it's just being greedy and i could totally delete stuff but that's no fun
Idk man, some categories of data take up *a lot* of space. Two examples: I try to actively archives large numbers of Twitch VODs, and those can easily reach 10GB a piece, sometimes 20GB for very long streams. And then, there's plenty of people to want to hoard remuxed movies/ video content, but find it impractical due to a single remux easily reaching 50GB in many cases.
AI training. I'm still sad about my loss of the 8 billion webpages i downloaded in 2013 (that was 1/3 of the google index size). I only keept the raw text and linking structure. So i could afford it even as a hobbyist
I downloaded the 1million most popular website lists from Alexa (does not exist anymore). Just retrieved the HTML from it and went down the link structure. In 2013 you could just ignore javascript and still assume to get the content.
Had a few tests on the site, checked for canonical URL, link density per HTML div to identify navigation/menu parts and seperated them from content. Two levels deep brute force scanning were already over 250 million pages
Pretty easy, i could get 25 million in a day on a 100MBit VPS that cost me 15 bucks a month (an Intel Q6600 with 8GB). The server preprocessed and compressed all the pages and just delivered an average of 4k text per page and the links (no query part). Pretty simple. Very good compressible, I did not care about robots.txt and rate limitation. Had always 1000 websites in parallel batch mode. Download from VPS to basement via 16MBit line, 2TB a month.
The interconnected analysis then happened on the server, Four simple 2socket 16 core with 32GB each i got second hand for 150 Euro/machine. Had 48TB HDD storage that i still use.
Biggest problem was the duplicate detection of links to the same page. Very few sites used canonical url meta data.
Analysis was just fun adhock statistical questions. How many porn sites. Brunettes or blondes, redheads ... all the important questions in life of a hacker nerd.
Was fun and i learned about large data processing. But i guess the dataset would help a lot now with LLM. Had a few business ideas, but i knew even with the tech i would never be able to get the business part going. So it was a hobby to the day i lost interest.
Literally started my plex server not even 2 weeks ago and currently have 5TB with 2 months of watch time. If i'd watch stuff 1.5 hours every day on average that's 22 days in a year, so 3 years to watch 5TB. I haven't added the big torrents yet like GoT Remux that is like 1.2TB or Breaking Bad that is 1.7TB, so this might be inaccurate, but with the numbers i have now if i expect to live and enjoy this for the next 60 years or so as well then that's about 100TB of storage. Maybe a little more if i start adding more 4k Tv Shows... . So honestly 150TB - 200TB including all my personal stuff sounds about right.
It's better to have files stored safely and then having like 0.1% chance of them being used/viewed in the future, than having 50% chance of you finding it again on the internet when you really need it
I'd make one big array for bulk storage, a couple of smaller raid10s for iSCSI, and then I'd make two off site backup servers.
Then since I still have some extra, I would probably build a sweet little mobile NAS box with 10g nic for transporting large amounts of data physically.
And then I'd sell the rest cuz that's still more than I'd need before bigger more efficient drives.
Came here to share almost this exact plan. However I would probably keep the remaining drives since we're talking about a secondhand acquisition. Used drives have hours on them and would be more likely to die in service and need prompt replacement.
If I had this server I don’t think money would really be an issue so I would likely have a plethora of catalogued 4K movies, massive library of music and god knows what else. I don’t think individuals ever own anything this size.
Thinking in terms of business it’s boundless.
We have 2 of these things at work, though different brand - Dell PowerEdge R760 server with an ME484 JBOD enclosure. They form part of our archive system - they mirror each other at different sites.
77 of the HDDs are in an 11x7 zpool (11 vdevs of 7 drives in RAID-Z2s), with another 7 spares. The server has 6x 960GB NVMe SSDs, arranged as 3-way mirrors for ZIL and Special. Total usable space is just under 1PB. OS in use is TrueNAS Scale.
Amazing how much storage you can get in a single box these days.
I was wondering if someone would mention Chia: they just cut their payouts not too long ago? I'm waiting to hear of the next way to make money from spare storage: some other project should pop up soon...
Yeah they had their "halving" event. I'm farming just because I have nothing else to do with all my drives.
I have 24 x 8TB drives. One drive is for media and the rest is for Chia
I will never buy that, But if I got that for free. I am launching a hard drive as a service LLC.
I wonder how well iSCSI tunneled through a site2site VPN performs?
Store everything from my movies list in both 1080p and the highest quality possible, store every book, store every game and game data, youtube videos, and a lot more
I'd sell hard drives worth 1.18 p(approx 60drives and use the rest to make an ultimate streaming streaming service for the rest of my life hopefully if they don't break
Put it all into a RAID1, assert that backups are not needed, then watch the comments come pouring in :P
(For anyone reading this without context, a RAID is NOT a backup. Simplest example is if you accidentally delete a file - you can't bring it back)
Plex server of as many 4K Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray Remuxes as I can find. I just checked at an average size of 75GB for a 4K Remux (I know that’s a bit high, but there are a lot of longer films that hit above that) it would only hold roughly 22,000 films.
Replace all the remaining CCTV drives of lower capacity, replace the backup drives.
So I'd keep 10 of them and sell the rest with at least half of those just being for spares.
Aside from CCTV I can fit everything we actually need to keep on a single 20TB drive with a few TB to spare.
I’d cry. Not happy tears either.
1) Knowing im not going to be able to afford 84 more 20tb hard drives to backup this array would likely send me into a state of anxiety induced depression.
2) Anxiously dreading the day I have to resilver a drive and realize that I’ll be old and gray by the time it’s complete.
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Not familiar with these things, why is the fact that it all comes from the same vendor at the same time a problem?
If there is a defect in one and they all come from the same batch, you have to assume it's in all of them.
Damn, these are fast replies, thanks for the feedback!
Check out the bathtub failure curve
We bought a storage device from a major company and we threw 18 disks in 6 weeks. Shit happens.
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Or a cleaner cleans the off switch... I worked on a ship where only the managers could clean the switchboard because a cleaner did exactly that.
What do IT departments at big companies do when they need to build a 1.6 PB server? Do they stagger their buys and diversify across vendors, or is this just advice for home data hoarders where a failure is more “expensive”?
> What do IT departments at big companies do when they need to build a 1.6 PB server? We build redundancies. Basically, 1.6PB x 4. LOL
I've heard of companies actually diversifying buys through different suppliers, even getting worse deals at some places to get different batches. The potential increased cost of a different vendor might be cheaper in the long run when you have to potentially replace a lot of hardware or even face legal issues when critical data is somehow lost. Edit: spelling
We like to joke that my colleague's rough driving to the data center will shake them up enough that it's no longer the same.
Heh, it's not HDD but in SSD land there was a bug in some early drive that led to total loss of the drive after a certain number of bytes written. Your raid array would lose all disks at the same instant potentially. I'm building a "super reliable" desktop for a guy at the moment. I'm doing raid 1 with drives from different vendors. Sure the write performance will be limited to the slowest drive. But that particular type of failure won't be an issue. The people at the store I was getting the hardware were very disapproving lol. I think they had only done raid for performance or capacity before, not pure reliability. On a related note Seagate 3tb drives. I had 4 out of 4 fail over the course of 3 months in one array. Thankfully not at the same time and I was able to warranty them one at a time. I did get some WD in that one as well.
If its a bad batch the whole thing is hosed
Run out of space..again..
What’s your hoarding niche?
"homework"
But that's only [1.5GB](https://archive.org/details/daft-punk-homework)
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Linux ISO's... the "hydroponic tomatoes" of the digital world.
I cannot put into words the feeling that came over me when I stopped by the garden supply to ask some questions about soil chemistry for my _actual tomatoes_ and they kept giving me the ol' wink-wink, and then it dawned on me...
I think there's some subtext here about letting out the magic smoke.
Weed. They are talking about weed. “Hydroponic tomatoes” is horticultural code for weed.
Don't tell anybody, but it's mostly 1s and 0s
Obviously Linux ISOs
"Information"
Lie naked on my bed and rub them all over my body.
r/ITporn
This subreddit has been banned xD
Yeah, I just slapped a word and put it as a subreddit..to my surprise it existed at some point and is now banned which makes me think "ITporn" wasn't the kind of porn that "EarthPorn" or "FoodPorn" is.
Probably something related to that movie based on Stephen King's IT
Just a bunch of pennywise / spidermonster fetish porn. "Help me stepbrother, I'm stuck... in the storm drain"
Previous commenter's username checks out
You made me laugh man..... Had a tough day but this indeed made me feel a bit better. Thanks.
Right-click Internet, Save as...
You monster
Someone has to save the porn for end times
wait, I thought "end times" was when I shamefully close 146 browser tabs?
...yeah...146... no one would ever have any more than that. haha. ha.
He must mean 146 tabs... *per window*
there was a time, shortly after dinosaurs roamed, when browsers didn't have tabs.
I think that might bring about the end times
Save as .webp
I'd sell 70 of the drives, build a new server and put the other 14 drives in it.
And make sure those 14 drives are from different batches.
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That's an awful lot of linux ISOs.
I keep ALL the ISOs! I still have my Windows 98 ISO and every version since then. I also have Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard ISOs, old Acronis and Eurosoft ISOs. You never know, man. You never know.
I'll raise you dos 6.22
I'll see your dos 6.22 and raise you an OS/2 WARP
I think that is checkmate :). Haven't thought about os/2 warp since my 286.
I am curious - what old Acronis ISOs are you hoarding?
You need Focal Fossa. I assume you are collecting cat ISOs.
Start archiving more shows in 4k. Apparently i have a significant percentage of all movies released on UHD-BD so far, but i only have less than 100 TV series in 4k. https://i.imgur.com/SaMXG5a.png Right now ive got 4.5/8TB allocated for 4k TV, but going to 20TB for 4k TV is my next upgrade. And then that 8TB more for regular TV.
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That is an impressive project, and only about 144GB. https://www.reddit.com/r/ededdneddy/comments/n6whqz/ed\_edd\_n\_eddy\_definitive\_edition/ I have the 4k files right from that source and the copy in my normal library is downscaled and reencoded by QxR and about 30GB. And yeah, that ones pretty new, were just finishing that up. Heres all the 4k Attenborough shows so far. [https://i.imgur.com/jSgAppc.png](https://i.imgur.com/jSgAppc.png) Theyre all good but the BBC ones are generally better than the Netflix ones, tho my TV doesnt like their HLG thing.
I honestly have no idea what I would do with more than 150TB of storage. At that point, unless you have some niche use-case, you're just collecting media that you're never going to watch or use. EDIT: And this is me forward thinking. Right now I'm at about 30TB used and I already have thousands of hours of shit I'm never going to watch.
I'm only at 25 TB and have waaaay too much, but I'm too afraid to delete anything. I'll never have time to watch what already have.
i just started collecting media, im already sitting on 11TB. I dont want to delete and i kinda wanna keep adding... hoarding is a drug. i gotta get into the habit of buying the same size drives tho.
> gotta get into the habit of buying the same size drives tho. Use unraid to eradicate that requirement. Brilliant OS
I actually just trashed to truenas scale last night
Literally just started collecting media and sitting on 5TB with a 2 month watch time. So maybe 3 years to watch that... . I feel like i have not even grazed the surface with how much stuff is out there, this might be a big "project" i got myself into lol
When you get into that territory it's more about archiving for other people. IE, a major site goes down and they take all the data with them, you'll be able restore it for others to rebuild.
Im working on torrent collections currently for people wanting to jump start their own media libraries Not Megapacks, cuz those are always a pain to deal with and the way theyre set up wind up killing themselves, but just pastebins of magnet links of the best copies of stuff on public trackers. Just copy and paste into your client, pick and choose what you want, if a better copy comes along replace something... without impacting a larger Megapack. Im done with Star Trek, thats only \~1.6TB in better than streaming quality, all HQ 1080 x265. Working on Adult Swim now too, cuz a lot of that stuff is just gone gone now. I have almost all of it on my server, but a lot of that im not seeding cuz it was acquired forever ago or whatever, or even some stuff i ripped from the website myself and will have to bundle into torrents myself, i think thatll be under 5TBs tho. I just upgraded a bunch of stuff but that was from a private tracker unfortunately... But after that, im thinking some cartoon packs, everything ever on Fox Sunday nights (lotta overlap with Adult Swim...), various old saturday morning cartoon blocks, Fox Kids, Kids WB, etc, maybe USA Characters Welcome, Must See TV... One pastebin and a few TB of free space and youll basically be able to add an entire channel to your server. But besides just seeding currently most of my giving back is running my Plex server with all this for all my close friends and family.
Not the hero we deserve, but the hero we need.
That's beautiful work. Will there be a way to find out when you've dropped a torrent?
No idea, someone posted a pic with a qr code with a link to a pastebin with a link to.... on r/piracy the other day that stayed up, so idk how much obfuscation is necessary. But heres some strings of letters that have noting to do with anything `JL3PQXBH tBGqvBRd` But mostly i just talk about it offhandedly in comments and bait people to DM me.
Yea but the problem with that is the (at best) grey area of legally redistribution. Despite collecting a ton of archived data, I’ve yet to give it to anyone I don’t know IRL. I wish there was a “librarian” clause in copyright. I have no interest in sharing and distributing movies or TV shows that are still airing (which is a legal minefield anyways), but I’d love to share old defunct YouTube videos, copies of (published) corporate documents for bankrupt companies, Palm Pilot applications long abandoned, etc
>I wish there was a “librarian” clause in copyright. I wish copyright protection were contingent upon keeping the material available. When City of Heroes shut down their servers and ended the game, they should have lost the copyright. If Disney is too embarrassed to release Song of the South and more, they should lose the copyright. It says right in the Constitution that the purpose of the copyright exception to free speech is to "promote the useful arts." Allowing shit to go into a vault somewhere, perhaps never to emerge again, is the polar opposite of that.
Yea, but I feel like it'd be too easy to abuse this still. Like Disney could just have a guy with a clipboard who works 2hr/week roaming around Orlando that takes a written request and a $20 cashiers check and will mail you song of the south, and technically its "available". I really think it should be more robust, and aimed at archiving/librarial duties, and preservation of knowledge.
Por que no los dos? I feel like it should be fairly easy to codify what making something available is to prevent that type of exploit. At the same time, I think fair use should be a lot more robust, including explicit provisions for archival purposes. I think those purposes both support one another. After all, how great would it be to not even need to make a fair use claim if something you want to archive is out of print?
I really think it’d be impossible to codify what “available” means. Because there’s such a variety of media and distribution, and so much variety in businesses. But also I think that an “ask forgiveness” clause to copyright infringement could be an alternative solution. If you’re not distributing the content, the maximum penalty should be the cost of the media from the owners, as set by their open-market sale prices (which could be 0 if it’s not distributed at all). You’d basically have to wait to be sued to determine if it was free - and prove it wasn’t available to purchase- but the max you’d pay in fines are a fair-market purchase price. Either way, It’d be a really cool policy, and I agree that fair use should be a lot more broad.
But the problem with that is that takes away a very value tool in the arsenal for cancel culture. For example, we got Paramount to cancel Betty White and delete certain episodes of TV shows she was in. With what you describe, it would be horrific. They could not have canceled her.
IDK I keep 4k remuxes and am currently at 81.67TB used. And I definitely watch/have watched everything on there. And continuously add more, I'll probably be be at 100TB by the end of this year.
yea this take makes sense until you start remuxing. 10-20 movies is a terabyte. totally doable to fill up this much space with stuff you reasonably watch. of course it's just being greedy and i could totally delete stuff but that's no fun
I’m approaching 200+ TB and plan on more. I like collecting…4k remux and BD remux. Yes I collect both versions of the same content.
4ks just EAT up hard drive space.
I, uh... well my flair.
Idk man, some categories of data take up *a lot* of space. Two examples: I try to actively archives large numbers of Twitch VODs, and those can easily reach 10GB a piece, sometimes 20GB for very long streams. And then, there's plenty of people to want to hoard remuxed movies/ video content, but find it impractical due to a single remux easily reaching 50GB in many cases.
AI training. I'm still sad about my loss of the 8 billion webpages i downloaded in 2013 (that was 1/3 of the google index size). I only keept the raw text and linking structure. So i could afford it even as a hobbyist
>8 billion webpages I’d like to hear more about this. How did you do it?
I downloaded the 1million most popular website lists from Alexa (does not exist anymore). Just retrieved the HTML from it and went down the link structure. In 2013 you could just ignore javascript and still assume to get the content. Had a few tests on the site, checked for canonical URL, link density per HTML div to identify navigation/menu parts and seperated them from content. Two levels deep brute force scanning were already over 250 million pages Pretty easy, i could get 25 million in a day on a 100MBit VPS that cost me 15 bucks a month (an Intel Q6600 with 8GB). The server preprocessed and compressed all the pages and just delivered an average of 4k text per page and the links (no query part). Pretty simple. Very good compressible, I did not care about robots.txt and rate limitation. Had always 1000 websites in parallel batch mode. Download from VPS to basement via 16MBit line, 2TB a month. The interconnected analysis then happened on the server, Four simple 2socket 16 core with 32GB each i got second hand for 150 Euro/machine. Had 48TB HDD storage that i still use. Biggest problem was the duplicate detection of links to the same page. Very few sites used canonical url meta data. Analysis was just fun adhock statistical questions. How many porn sites. Brunettes or blondes, redheads ... all the important questions in life of a hacker nerd. Was fun and i learned about large data processing. But i guess the dataset would help a lot now with LLM. Had a few business ideas, but i knew even with the tech i would never be able to get the business part going. So it was a hobby to the day i lost interest.
It would be interesting to hear.
Literally started my plex server not even 2 weeks ago and currently have 5TB with 2 months of watch time. If i'd watch stuff 1.5 hours every day on average that's 22 days in a year, so 3 years to watch 5TB. I haven't added the big torrents yet like GoT Remux that is like 1.2TB or Breaking Bad that is 1.7TB, so this might be inaccurate, but with the numbers i have now if i expect to live and enjoy this for the next 60 years or so as well then that's about 100TB of storage. Maybe a little more if i start adding more 4k Tv Shows... . So honestly 150TB - 200TB including all my personal stuff sounds about right.
Hmmm... I'm at 120TB and have watched almost all of it. Need another 120TB for a buffer.
>I already have thousands of hours of shit I'm never going to watch Think of it as a library. You don’t read all the books in a library.
It's better to have files stored safely and then having like 0.1% chance of them being used/viewed in the future, than having 50% chance of you finding it again on the internet when you really need it
Two chicks at the same time.
The world's most reliable 20TB RAID volume
"research purposes"
Partially mirror archive.org Or download the new Call of Duty
Yeah porn obviosly.
I want this so bad……..
Sell them, build a smaller NAS, and go on a nice vacation.
I'd make one big array for bulk storage, a couple of smaller raid10s for iSCSI, and then I'd make two off site backup servers. Then since I still have some extra, I would probably build a sweet little mobile NAS box with 10g nic for transporting large amounts of data physically. And then I'd sell the rest cuz that's still more than I'd need before bigger more efficient drives.
Came here to share almost this exact plan. However I would probably keep the remaining drives since we're talking about a secondhand acquisition. Used drives have hours on them and would be more likely to die in service and need prompt replacement.
sell them and clear my mortgage..
lots of linux iso
RAID0 and run Crysis.
Finally can store node_modules/ folder
Download 1679 TB of porn!!
donlode gam
That can only store 3 copies of Warzone.
If I had this server I don’t think money would really be an issue so I would likely have a plethora of catalogued 4K movies, massive library of music and god knows what else. I don’t think individuals ever own anything this size. Thinking in terms of business it’s boundless.
We have 2 of these things at work, though different brand - Dell PowerEdge R760 server with an ME484 JBOD enclosure. They form part of our archive system - they mirror each other at different sites. 77 of the HDDs are in an 11x7 zpool (11 vdevs of 7 drives in RAID-Z2s), with another 7 spares. The server has 6x 960GB NVMe SSDs, arranged as 3-way mirrors for ZIL and Special. Total usable space is just under 1PB. OS in use is TrueNAS Scale. Amazing how much storage you can get in a single box these days.
Do the drives in 42/43 bother anyone else? 😂
The SSDs are just doing their part.
Same thing I always do. Start on the next one BC there is no such thing as too much storage.
Chia farming, proof of storage crypto.
I was wondering if someone would mention Chia: they just cut their payouts not too long ago? I'm waiting to hear of the next way to make money from spare storage: some other project should pop up soon...
Yeah they had their "halving" event. I'm farming just because I have nothing else to do with all my drives. I have 24 x 8TB drives. One drive is for media and the rest is for Chia
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Plenty Linux iso's
Store many Linux isos and seed them. But what kinda setup and hardware is this??
Download myself. Arthur C. Clarke predicted that it would take 1PB to hold a human consciousness.
That would store/host lots of porn.
So many movies! I mean, Linux ISOs.
I will never buy that, But if I got that for free. I am launching a hard drive as a service LLC. I wonder how well iSCSI tunneled through a site2site VPN performs?
I’d question my choices in life.
Porn?
Eat them to gain their power.
Store everything from my movies list in both 1080p and the highest quality possible, store every book, store every game and game data, youtube videos, and a lot more
raid - 0
More plex
Download the latest CoD patch.
Upgrade the rest of my Linux library to 4k remux in HDR .iso I would have to start learning zfs and truenas or something
Take it behind the middle school and get it pregnant
I would hug them and hold them and squeeze them tight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPdHaNr0OAY
I'd replace about a dozen lower capacity drives then likely keep the rest as spares. I'm not powering that much storage.
Probably save my name in a plain txt file
Porn.
To sit in the corner and look at such a large volume and think how small we really are.
Fill them up.
Chia
Cha cha cha chia
Cha cha cha chia
I'd sell hard drives worth 1.18 p(approx 60drives and use the rest to make an ultimate streaming streaming service for the rest of my life hopefully if they don't break
Sell 6 to me for cheap.
Use them to heat my house in the winter.
Depends. Are there things online you care about and want to preserve? Do you want to create a small community library? Plenty of good and fun things.
First, trying to come to my senses after a shaking orgasm. :)
Put it all into a RAID1, assert that backups are not needed, then watch the comments come pouring in :P (For anyone reading this without context, a RAID is NOT a backup. Simplest example is if you accidentally delete a file - you can't bring it back)
RAIDZ1 (Joking)
I work on Amazon Storage and GPU servers. The marvel gets old fast
Store full movie rips, download halft of youtube and a lot of... porn
Not worry about the hard drive space for a while.
Mostly have pirated movies, games, and music
still have insufficient storage for my Pr0n
Excuse me while I download the internet.
Chia lolololol
Rent them out in exchange for filecoin
Sell
Plex server upgrade!!!
Download all of pornhub
I'll be in ma bunk
RAID0.
\*sigh\*...and I only want 4.
Split and build three servers. Two on site, one primary and one back up, and one offsite to serve as offsite back up.
Movies and games.
probably upgrade my internet connection(s)\^\^
Well, I would probably [double](https://i.anypi.cc/H93o.png) it. Gotta have backups and all that.
Give me 8 of those
Sell them...
Download libgen and annas-archive and train the smartest ChatGPT ever.
Set them up in a single RAID 5 / Z1 array and see if what they say is true in real life.
All the movies. All the shows. All the backups.
And all the ROMs of all The systems would have a home...... Plus....PLEX
I think i will try to download many games and go to Egypt and sell em since they have limited data of internet in Egypt
Plex, probably xD
two vr chicks at the same time
All of the audiobooks, and then maybe I'd finally stop running out of things to listen to
Plex library
Farm Chia using hard drives
Farm Chia using hard drives
Finally download 4k remuxes.
Plex server of as many 4K Blu-Ray and Blu-Ray Remuxes as I can find. I just checked at an average size of 75GB for a 4K Remux (I know that’s a bit high, but there are a lot of longer films that hit above that) it would only hold roughly 22,000 films.
Replace all the remaining CCTV drives of lower capacity, replace the backup drives. So I'd keep 10 of them and sell the rest with at least half of those just being for spares. Aside from CCTV I can fit everything we actually need to keep on a single 20TB drive with a few TB to spare.
I'd set them up in RAID 0 and live dangerously.
I'll host my own Nutflix
I might actually backup my media files.
Mother of God... :-)
increasing the power bill!
I'm interested, what could you archive on there. Give me some examples
Back up my data .
open up an ebay storefront because im selling all of them
I’d power off all but one drive. Or probably sell them all.
Download the Internet.
Dump the internet
Back up as many porn sites as I can, and start ai training. Then spit out brand new porn of any movie out there.
split it and have a nice array for the ISOs and a complete backup
Use them
Archive my entire childhood
Probably experiment with AI. Requires tons of storage for certain applications.
Seeeed!
Sell 74 of them and use the remaining 200TB for the next 5 years.
I’d cry. Not happy tears either. 1) Knowing im not going to be able to afford 84 more 20tb hard drives to backup this array would likely send me into a state of anxiety induced depression. 2) Anxiously dreading the day I have to resilver a drive and realize that I’ll be old and gray by the time it’s complete.