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You're MDNWU said:
"Sweet! I was able to delete Solitaire, Minesweeper, and a bunch of fonts I'll never use! That extra 500kb should make my P3 better handle Call of Duty! Now I need to try anything to OC it!"

I both miss and loathe those days.
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Back before we had that whopping 100 MB monster, I remember figuring out how to install games on floppy disks so that Dad wouldn't yell at me for taking up all the hard drive space again. As long as the game and its saves took up less than 1.2 MBs, anyway.

snov said:
IBM would like to sell you a cassette.
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IBM FlashSystem is the new hotness. 192 TB for just $19,800. They're practically giving it away!
 
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Wake me when the discussion hits 100T. Yes, I may have problems, but too much space is not one of them.
 
Got 19 TB of cold platters myself, it's great when you have such an excessive amount of storage as you can throw away the concept of needing to remove unneeded files, keeps the stress down a tad.
 
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I have 32TBs of storage. 2 12TB HDDs, 1 6TB HDD, and 2 1TB M2 NVMEs. I don't need the storage now, but I like using whatever I can on my mobo.
 
The Mass Shooter Ron Soye said:
We need petabyte/exabyte optical discs or something.
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I'd settle for 10T for home use. Something that once a month I can have it spit out a disc and take it to my secure off-site location and put it in the vault. Fine, it's a storage unit and a $50 fire safe, probably not even rated for media. Currently I have 2 pairs of 8T drives that get rotated and updated with all my 'important' stuff.

Just Some Other Guy said:
Well the case I just bought has room for 16 drives, half of those 3.5". So that very well could be me in the future lol.
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Betonhaus said:
I'm currently aiming for 20tb, 100 is still a ways away but not impossible. I'd have to upgrade to 12tb drives to do so
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Just save all your old but working drives and soon you can fill a 24 drive chassis that can be heard 3 blocks away and needed a larger UPS when all drives are spun up. That's my on-site backup so luckily those drives spend much of their lives asleep.

Also, fuck, I just logged into that system to check and realized the drives aren't spun down. I re-installed the OS and forgot hdparm to set the power settings.
Luckily the monitoring script I copied over has the --nocheck flag to not spin them back up every 5 minutes when it checks the temperature, so at least it's not that problem.
 
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As long as we're on the topic of storage, got a question. At what number of drives would you want to use RAID6 instead of RAID5? And would your view change depending whether it was HDD or SSD? Assuming NAS drives such as WD Reds.

I have a rough number in my head and I want to see if it's stupid.
 
The Ugly One said:
"100 MB? I can't imagine ever filling up a 100 MB drive!" -Me, 1995
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You're MDNWU said:
"Sweet! I was able to delete Solitaire, Minesweeper, and a bunch of fonts I'll never use! That extra 500kb should make my P3 better handle Call of Duty! Now I need to try anything to OC it!"

I both miss and loathe those days.
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Where am I going to find the 16MB I need to install Transport Tycoon Deluxe?
Proceeds to break Windows 3.1 install on family PC.
 
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Overly Serious said:
It's not really for games. It's for VMs and also AI models. So there are some large files involved, e.g. everytime I switch to a different Stable Diffusion checkpoint.
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You know, I never realized until now why my checkpoint switches were so slow until this post made it click that I have them on my storage HDD for some reason.

I feel really stupid now.
 
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davids877 said:
I'd settle for 10T for home use. Something that once a month I can have it spit out a disc and take it to my secure off-site location and put it in the vault. Fine, it's a storage unit and a $50 fire safe, probably not even rated for media. Currently I have 2 pairs of 8T drives that get rotated and updated with all my 'important' stuff.
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A dual 8T drive set up tbh would probably be enough for me, 16tb total in HDD space and I'd be happy.
 
Lord of the Large Pants said:
As long as we're on the topic of storage, got a question. At what number of drives would you want to use RAID6 instead of RAID5? And would your view change depending whether it was HDD or SSD? Assuming NAS drives such as WD Reds.

I have a rough number in my head and I want to see if it's stupid.
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Consider other options. You could have two or three striped pairs for example in a single pool. SSD could be used as transaction cache, or read cache.
Do you care about performance? Then, see above configurations. If you don't then I'd say that four drives are minimum I would be comfortable with for Raid5. I run kinda sorta equivalent of Raid6 with six drives.

What Raid solution are you going to use?

seri0us said:
What about 2x 8T in Raid 0?
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I do 2x2T in a Raid 0. It just werks, just backup the snapshots often lol.
 
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