Subj : Re: Plex Media Server drive upgrade
To   : Spectre
From : Adept
Date : Tue Aug 23 2022 09:21:55

 Sp> First up, aloe vera, or is that the Adeptus Astartes. :)  You've been
 Sp> quiet for a bit.

Hi! Yeah, I've still been logging in on a daily basis, but I was getting
behind on FSXnet general sub posts, and was less likely to respond to things
a thousand messages ago.

A bit of the ebb and flow of things, I suppose.

I have been thinking more about demoscene things, though, so I suppose more
of my creative energies are in that direction, at the moment.

 Sp> I have a Thecus device filling that role. At the time I bought 2 new 8TB
 Sp> drives to put in it.  I did have a massive amount of monolithic data
 Sp> tied up in video, unfortunately I lost most of it while playing around
 Sp> with mergerfs so it lies heavily under utilised.

I've now set mine up, have 2 new 8TB drives that I put into a RAID 1 array
(if I'm not going to use 16 TBs, I may as well have two drives with the same
info...).

And, yeah, not sure how much of it I'll use. Probably most will go to
automated backups. For now, I put on half a terabyte of videos, and that's
probably the biggest bit I'll do.

 Sp> base, but the rest of it is pretty random, odd music, applications. I
 Sp> have to get around and pack it away into the NAS preiodically.

Yeah, and I should probably do that, too. My downloads folder is fairly
massive, and most of it I probably don't need to have multiple copies of, so
just keeping it all on the NAS is probably the best idea.

 Sp> Mine are hanging out of a ~40Mb NFS share... handy to just mount the
 Sp> share in a virtual system and run it from there.

I think my Mystic install is significantly bigger than that, but I'm not
deleting messages, and I imagine the file base keeps getting bigger.

Now all the ANSIs I've ever made... Yeah, that's probably still pretty tiny.

 Sp> the Gb range of hard drives space started to exceed my ability to fill,
 Sp> and I find that is much the case even now.  Aforementioned loss of data
 Sp> partially to blame but I don't acquire data at the same rate I used to.

I think the whole, "Well, video comes through streaming, not downloading"
meant that people no longer are really collecting things that take up lots of
space.

I imagine I'll eventually use up the space I have, even if just for backups,
but filling will probably depend on how much time I spend with DaVinci
Resolve.

GIMP, coding, and BBSing just aren't enough.

But I guess I'm basically happy with this state of things -- like how
processor speed has basically plateaued since the early 2000s, so, yeah,
sure, lots more cores, graphics cards stuff, and general parallel processing,
but top speed basically stopped getting higher.

And the need for hard drive space is just less.

Unless you have lots of 4k video, I imagine.

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