Asking mostly because I have fuckloads of video courses, plus a number of movies, that I have yet to even check if the content is as good as their titles imply and I really feel like I’m mostly hoarding this stuff because I have no fucking clue.
How do you avoid “hoarding”?
Looks at my 28TB storage array that’s 3/4 full…
You’re doing great man, please keep it up i’m not even joking. Maybe someday you’ll be the one guy that still has that old gem everybody lost.
I actually keep a list of works that I’ve shared online that would’ve likely been lost without my intervention. Physical-only Bandcamp releases that I’ve ripped and shared. Sample packs that have been taken down from webstores, etc. The Internet isn’t forever people. Better archive what you can
Drive space can be had for less than 10USD a TB, so I’d hardly call hoarding a problem. Unless youre hoarding hundreds of copies of Call of Duty
Where do you get such cheap storage? I’ve seen it closer to $20/TB usually
I buy refirb server drives . With a raid array and warranty, the risk of a failing drive is within an acceptable range for me.
This listing was a bit cheaper last I looked, so just over $10/TB is more accurate to say now haha.
Avoid hoarding? Let’s just say I bring a real “gotta catch em all” energy to the trackers.
My goal is to store everything, that way I have no dependence on remote media
All the time. It’s my primary source of entertainment media. And why would I want to avoid hoarding? Hoarding is the goal.
How do you avoid “hoarding”?
I dont. Hard drives are increasingly cheap/large. I have to really dislike something to delete it. I have a fair amount of content that I don’t really plan on watching again, but someone I know might like it so i just leave it typically.
I have to really dislike something to delete it.
The velma tv show was the last item I just deleted.
But for me this is the same story. I’m up to 400TB… I’m just over half full. I’ve got plenty to go, and if I make to to 75-80% full, then I’m going to get me a 45 or 60 bay server and upgrade from my 36 bay one. 6 of the bays are wasted on SSD caching currently… Just finding a chassis that doesn’t waste the 3.5 inch bays on 2.5 drives would allow me to add a full vdev(another 100TB…).
Old chassis can be had on ebay relatively cheaply.
Do you have an offsite backup? Or do you only backup specifics? Like 10-20% of that?
I do not have full proper offsites… yet.
I run proxmox, so if it’s live on a server it’s probably on my ~70TB (really 40*2TB ssd) ceph cluster. Which makes 3 copies across the 5 boxes, so it’s more like 23TB of usable space for all my vms and such. The 400TB of storage is Truenas is really closer to 300TB after all the losses in raidz vdev and hot spares and what have you, there’s 30x 16TB SAS seagates in the box, of which 2 are hot spares and 7 are parity for raidz1… For things that are slow or linear loads (a movie file could be a good example of that type of workload!). Backups of the the proxmox boxes… and mass stored stuff, 99% of it I could easily obtain again if I had to. Although I’d probably be pretty flustered about it.
Truly important stuff gets written to 100GB bluray(s) (specifically m-disc blurays) and put in the safe. I do this probably about once a year or so…
My dad was in the process of setting up his own cluster that’s running 14TB drives rather than my 16TB… When he’s finally done I intend to requisition probably about half of his space for offsite storage (maybe more). I’m figuring about 100TB of space is what I’ll have there. Maybe more. He’s about 65 miles away from me, different electrical grid and all.
So the count as it stands now. Everything running has at least 2 copies on 2 mediums (ceph cluster, and spinning rust). My “linux iso” repositories only live on the spinning rust storage, but is low priority anyway. Super important highly sensitive shit lives on at least 3 copies and 3 mediums, although one of the mediums may be out of date and none is offsite… Though it’s rare I add to this category. There is plans for adding another copy of data, offsite on harddrive storage for most of my dataset as it is now.
Truenas usages:
And here’s Ceph
