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> 288TB that is a lot. maybe it (and this comment) will be subsumed in the next 10 years, but for now it is spacious and amazing.
by m463 3y ago
> 288TB
that is a lot.
maybe it (and this comment) will be subsumed in the next 10 years, but for now it is spacious and amazing.
- xyst 3y agoIt’s amazing until you have drive failures.
- tombert 3y agoYeah, I really don't think there exists always-online data storage that you don't have to babysit. I've broken my setup so many times that I can almost rebuild it from scratch in my sleep. I should point out, part of the reason I do this is as a learning tool. I feel like you learn a lot of neat tricks when you build and run this stuff on your own, and I think that there's really no negatives in the software engineering world to being proficient with the command line and server administration.
- tombert 3y agoI mentioned in a sister comment, I don't think I have ever gone over 50TB, so it's very much overkill, but it makes me feel cool. One advantage, though, is that when you have a "nearly-unlimited" place to dump data, it kind of changes how you think about problems. If I want to do some experiment with video encoding, there's really nothing stopping me from encoding a video into 100 different configurations so I can directly compare stuff. I don't have to be sparing, and there at least won't be any surprise bills from Amazon or Google later. They're spinning drives so I don't really worry about the write-cycle stuff.