I dunno what the budget is, I've not had time to watch it all. however getting a second hand dell md3060 (they are rebadged from an OEM) for about £1k is also a good option.
Its 60drives and mostly bulletproof. Downside is that you'll either need SAS controller on your server, or find the vanishingly rare Sata controllers.
JBOD that badboy into ZFS and you'll have something fast enough for most things (streaming)
How we used them was hardware raid 7 in 4 groups of 13 with the rest as hot spares. LVM raid 0 and good to go (this was a time before production ZFS on linux)
I'm not sure what the compatibility is with larger sata drives given how old it is. I suspect you might be limited to JBOD.
Yeah I've deffo seen them on Netapps, but I'm not entirely convinced they are made by them. I saw some OEM versions of them "naked" as it were, but I can't remember what the company was called.
When you look at them, they really don't have the same style as netapp did at the time.
Any suggestions for UK alternatives for cutting and bending the steel sheets needed for the chassis to the suggested US company in the video? I’ve reached out to a couple for quotes a couple of days back but haven’t heard back yet.
The second is the most similar to the company in the video, but the first is a much more established company. If none of these can do what you need, I suggest looking around the large manufacturing cities, so sheffield/derby/birmingham where there are still lots of small bespoke workshops that service large companies like forgemaster, rolls royce and JLR etc....
Data hoarders. I'm in a plex group on fb and there's people there with libraries that they could never personally watch all of. It sometimes seems like it's more a game of collecting all the things than it is about actually enjoying the collection.
You hear of media companies that delete old music and video from their own archives. People saving what they can may have the only copy left in existence.
Another part of it is the ability to play with enterprise hardware. That level of hardware has so many features which is cool for the technically inclined, but useless for a normal home user. When enthusiasm hits resources and the desire to acquire knowledge, this happens sometimes.
I have seen a couple of guys who acquired older generation storage "racks" which they "play with" in the weekends. Do they have the cooling? No. Does it affect their electricity bill? Very. But they want to learn that thing and want to play with it, which is understandable, as long as it's kept checked.
Not different from audiophiles who lose their way, actually.
I was a wannabe data-hoarder by accident, but I understood why I'm doing and decided to slim down drastically. I'm merging, deduplicating and deleting data step by step, because many of it is my own files from the days of yore, and I want to preserve some of them. To be frank, at this very moment I'm verifying that I have copied a bunch of files without corruption, so I can start working on them (sha256deep is an underappreciated tool).
Some of the datahoarders give me weird looks when I say, I'd rather have a single NUC with a couple of spinning drives for backing up what I care rather than having them all in a cabinet full of RAID arrays, but I already have them at work. I don't want another server at home (not because that I don't enjoy it, but I want to have some time touching actual grass).
This is correct, I personally aim to have all the highest quality versions of all movies, ie original Blu-ray. I have plenty of people that make use of it, it’s a hobby.
> It sometimes seems like it's more a game of collecting all the things than it is about actually enjoying the collection.
Aren't all collecting hobbies like this? Stamps, music on vinyl, movie posters, retro computers, cars, etc all have very little additional utility for size > n.
Knowledge archive. Everything I need to know to practice my job and life, I have an offline copy of. Wikipedia, SO, mediawikis, devdocs, git repos of dependencies etc.
If google decides to shove AI generated results up our throats, that's the reasonable alternative.
Currently I am building zimdex, as an alternative to the zim tools.
Also if that's your thing, check out the kiwix.org project. It's really nice.
Most of them should be pretty compressible though. How do you store them?
Currently I'm running TrueNAS on a small NUC w/ 4SSDs and working on adding a mirrored pool via an external enclosure, but I'll be doing some bug fixing, it seems.
I know a person that just "collects" games. They don't play them, they don't distribute them, it's just dowloaded and (poorly) cataloged like a Pokemon collection, unironically trying to catch them all.
The funny thing is, I keep a set of historical Linux ISOs to be able to work with older servers in my fleet.
Needing Debian 8 because that Lights Out connection requires JVM-something for the Java Web Start based console of the system.
Moreover, funnily, some newer servers work wonkier with more modern ipmitools and browser versions while connecting remotely. Intricacies of older embedded systems.
I do have an archive of Linux ISOs, but it is not anywhere near petabyte sized. Well I'm not trying to be comprehensive, everyone I download for many years now gets archived, and I am not sure that it is reached a terabyte yet.
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Its 60drives and mostly bulletproof. Downside is that you'll either need SAS controller on your server, or find the vanishingly rare Sata controllers.
JBOD that badboy into ZFS and you'll have something fast enough for most things (streaming)
How we used them was hardware raid 7 in 4 groups of 13 with the rest as hot spares. LVM raid 0 and good to go (this was a time before production ZFS on linux)
I'm not sure what the compatibility is with larger sata drives given how old it is. I suspect you might be limited to JBOD.
I have a ZFS JBOD supporting a 40ish machine cluster, and it works really well, 99.99% of the time, which is good enough.
Mine is not very dense. 150TB/box.
When you look at them, they really don't have the same style as netapp did at the time.
(or i'm wrong and senile.)
The second is the most similar to the company in the video, but the first is a much more established company. If none of these can do what you need, I suggest looking around the large manufacturing cities, so sheffield/derby/birmingham where there are still lots of small bespoke workshops that service large companies like forgemaster, rolls royce and JLR etc....
Previously ran an mp3 scraper recording 30 stations simultaneously
Good exposure to more music
I have seen a couple of guys who acquired older generation storage "racks" which they "play with" in the weekends. Do they have the cooling? No. Does it affect their electricity bill? Very. But they want to learn that thing and want to play with it, which is understandable, as long as it's kept checked.
Not different from audiophiles who lose their way, actually.
I was a wannabe data-hoarder by accident, but I understood why I'm doing and decided to slim down drastically. I'm merging, deduplicating and deleting data step by step, because many of it is my own files from the days of yore, and I want to preserve some of them. To be frank, at this very moment I'm verifying that I have copied a bunch of files without corruption, so I can start working on them (sha256deep is an underappreciated tool).
Some of the datahoarders give me weird looks when I say, I'd rather have a single NUC with a couple of spinning drives for backing up what I care rather than having them all in a cabinet full of RAID arrays, but I already have them at work. I don't want another server at home (not because that I don't enjoy it, but I want to have some time touching actual grass).
Aren't all collecting hobbies like this? Stamps, music on vinyl, movie posters, retro computers, cars, etc all have very little additional utility for size > n.
If google decides to shove AI generated results up our throats, that's the reasonable alternative.
Currently I am building zimdex, as an alternative to the zim tools.
Also if that's your thing, check out the kiwix.org project. It's really nice.
Now I just have to find a way to avoid the $50k egress cost from AWS.
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Needing Debian 8 because that Lights Out connection requires JVM-something for the Java Web Start based console of the system.
Moreover, funnily, some newer servers work wonkier with more modern ipmitools and browser versions while connecting remotely. Intricacies of older embedded systems.
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