Comments | epiic: Disk Usage

epiic

Disk Usage

Aug 11, 2013 22:51

I'm running low on space on a system with ~3TB of storage across two drives. I set this up last year, with the expectation it would last at least a few years. (previous setup had about 1TB) I now feel I should be looking into 4TB drives. The biggest offender is photos/videos eating 2TB just themselves.

By Year:

2008
21G

2009
140G

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blanklogo August 12 2013, 05:55:17 UTC

I've been running a 2TB RAID 1 for the last 2 years. Just added a 3TB RAID 1 this month. May turn one or both of those into RAID 5's around Christmas depending on money and available SATA connectors left in my system.

yoshikochan August 12 2013, 22:02:12 UTC

XD I started off with a 500 gig external.

Then I got a 1 TB.

Then I got a 2 TB.

Then I got a second 2 TB and got rid of my 1 TB.

Then a few weeks ago I got a 4 TB. Haven't taken it out of the box. Still debating if I want to get rid of one of the 2 TBs, but I think I want more back up (and one of my 2 TBs has been having issues so I think it's going to die anyway).

Never...enough... space... (and I have my SDD laptop so there's only 128gigs on that and I am always running out as I download things).

Anyway... Seagate! Great company. I got a defective one but I sent it back after a year (but within my 2 year warranty) and they sent me a brand new one, very nice, no problems since, and it was so easy to make the return.

epiic August 12 2013, 22:19:28 UTC

Once upon a time 72MB was so big we had to make partitions, because 30MB or so was the biggest size DOS allowed. (Not that I was old enough to really understand at the time, this is late 80's)
Just seems crazy that 0.1% of the free space now (that I feel is too little free space) used to be so large computers couldn't even support it right.

Now I'll just be adding. ZFS lets me expand the filesystem to span drives without needing to do anything with the existing data - I just have a bigger virtual drive. (Old file systems where I had to figure out how to split my data logically across drives sucked.) That I don't need to take with me, because through sshfs, I can access it anywhere. (external drive seems too much work, and without RAID of any sort, too dangerous for stuff like photos)

yoshikochan August 13 2013, 00:19:26 UTC

You... completely lost me on the tech language there ( ... )

epiic August 13 2013, 01:03:23 UTC

People do have limits, but we're still a ways away from them.

I saw an 8k demo from Sony at SIGGRAPH a few years ago - around 16x as much detail as 1080p. And it's very obviously better. Though I also felt it was almost unrealistically sharp - like real life doesn't feel that detailed.

But 8k is a ways off - 4k projectors (~4x HD resolution) are $26k & up. 4k screens are a few thousand dollars, and there's barely any publicly available content. But I expect that to change in < 5 years ( ... )

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