Uh huh, i get 300mbit burst 200mbit sustained download and 20mbit sustained upload, midday, from a forest in the dead center of louisiana. oh and with a consistent 59ms ping to our DC on the east coast (not aws), 24/7, over millions of pings.
can you tell me what other provider is doing that? for $120 a month? Were you thinking of hughesnet? because that was ADSL speeds with 20 times the latency. seriously, upwards of 1000ms round trip time.
yes, a century and a quarter ago there were electric cars. that went 15 units per hour for 20 minutes or whatever. Then Saturn EV-1 by GM was lease only, i wanted to own one and was unable to. what happened between the EV-1 and Tesla that made it to mass market? was there a fEV that i am not aware of that had sales numbers similar to Tesla's?
is it about the flamethrower? those already existed. So did tunnels. I guess you got me.
i had to search to find this post again. I was on my android phone talking to someone on a similar android phone (both samsung galaxy notes, but his is 1 generation newer); i mentioned this article, and i was very vocal about how i used to mock people who said "think about the amount of data that would take! from every user!"
anyhow both our NAS died on the same weekend, across the country from eachother; his has bad drives, mine had a bad PSU; unrelated. However, we were discussing switching to dell servers and SAS drives, as they're basically "infinite lifespan" compared to our use cases. I asked, forgetting that DELL have BMC/built in boards for SAS, if he had a SAS card, as i had one, that uses the cables that have 1 plug on the card side, and 3-4 plugs for drives on the other, and that i had ordered it for my "make a PC a NAS" project, but wasn't using it anymore.
I was already on amazon on my computer looking for a kitchen cart. i was idly scrolling around while on the phone, after all the above was said.
https://i.imgur.com/vBLntih.png
yeah. So i bought the card and cables on ebay five years ago, the card and cables do nothing for me, only for my friend (potentially, but Dell comes with SAS ready to go, no cables needed), and i last looked at this style of cables 5 or 6 years ago. I haven't searched amazon for "replacement" parts or NAS gear on my side, either.
i know 2021 feels like a lifetime ago, but AWS had linux (Amazon Linux?) a decade before that (maybe even 18 years ago?) When i think "azure" i think AD, winserver DCE, and so on. Obviously if they want complete vendor lock in they have to have first party linux, too, rather than people doing hypervisors on VMs on hypervisors.
i used to call myself a "cloud engineer" 14 years ago, me and a friend developed a formal way to deploy thin clients using AWS as the host, and it worked well for everything including youtube videos. this was in 2009, we had both been working with AWS since the first "public" instances became available.
So i suppose when azure was announced and came out, i was acutely aware of what they offered, and it was, you know, marginally cheaper than the AWS windows servers, as azure didn't have to pay microsoft as much for DCE licenses, maybe.
But it makes sense they have Linux now, as i said, ecosystem lock-in...
a couple hundred TB arranged how? and for what purpose, generally? archival, warm, hot?
for the first two, depending on throughput desired, you can do with spinning rust. you pick your exposure, single platter or not, speed or not, and interface. And no fancy raid hardware needed.
I've had decent luck with 3+1 warm and 4+1 archival. if you don't need quick seeks but want streaming data to be nice, make sure your largest file fits on a single drive, and do two parity disks for archive, a single for warm. md + lvm; ext4 fs, too. my very biased opinion based on tried everything and am out of ideas, and i am tired, and that stuff just works. I am not quick to the point but you need to split your storage up. use 18+ SMR disks, shingled magnetic recording hard drives, for larger stuff that you don't need to transfer very fast. 4k video for consumption on a 4k televsion fits here. Use faster, more reliable disks for data used a lot, &c
Hot or fast seeks & transfers is different, but i didn't get the idea that's what you were after. Hadoop ought be used for hot data, imo. People may argue that zfs of xfs or jfs or ffs is better than ext4, but are they gunna jump in and fix it for free when something goes wrong for whatever reason?
sorry, this is confusing. Unsure how to fix that. i have files on this style system that have been in continuous readable condition since the mid 1990s. There's been some bumps as i tried every [sic] other system and method.
TL;dr to scale my 1/10th size up, i personally would just get a bigger box to put the disks in, and add an additional /volumeN/ mountpoint for each additional array i added. it goes without saying that under that directory i would CIFS/NFS share subdirectories that fit that array's specifications. again, i am just tired of all of this, i'm also all socialed out so, apologies.
I suppose archival is as close to realistic as possible. It's intended for a personal Internet archive of a subset of sites I wish to crawl and store. I will query the data rarely, but I intend to store recent updates and so on. I have lots of CMR disks so I intend to use those. I intend to use zfs and I'm hoping I can add more disks later to the pool. What is your experience in gradually growing your storage and having to resilver? Do you just create new volumes?
i don't use zfs, so i am unsure. I have associates that manage ZFS stuff, but nothing at this scale. I'm sure zfs for your use case will be just fine, though. I mean archival and not heavy cache / deletions / etc.
I won't belabor my love for ext4 and basic tools :-)
Haha, no no. If ext4 is working fine for you that's great. I mentioned zfs because I hope to be able to expand a zpool with more drives and so on. Please do share if you have done things like that with LVM + ext4 or something like that.
yes, lvm lets you extend by, for example, adding physical volumes to volume groups, which then let you expand your logical volume (like /volume1 mountpoint) - i checked man lvm for lvm2 on devuan and that confirmed my memory.
i think i have a proton email address, but i never used it. i wonder.
but i pay fastmail a whopping $15/yr to give me mailboxes on my domain, which i have always heard is a good way to track who's selling your data.
So far, nothing has made it past the spam filter, and i don't check spam (how many valid emails have you found in spam in the last 5 years?); that being said apparently no one is selling my email address anymore. or, and this is a significant possibility: when i tell them companynickname@mydomain.li they just ignore the domain and put in gmail? For instance i gave Take5 "take5@" as my email and i never received anything from them. The guy even said "No; your email address" with a weird half smile; then i explained it's my own website and email, i can use any email address i want; that it will alert me if someone sells my email address.
I doubt there's a flag on the auto oil shop's CRM or POS or whatever for "customer states they're proactive about email spam and their privacy"
> (how many valid emails have you found in spam in the last 5 years?)
Personally, running SpamAssassin, zero.
However, this seems to be getting worse with the big providers deciding to drop domains they don't like from time to time. Selfhosted email will work for 4 years and then Google or Microsoft will spam them for a month for no reason. It always starts working again because I assume that what they are doing is technically anti-trust and running it for too long would make it obvious.
not an issue for me in general. side channels for nearly everyone i'd need email-style communication with, especially if their primary contact method is handled by any FAANG. I send test emails manually; usually when a semiweekly newsletter sends a plaintext "apparently our newsletters are bouncing", which they detect by autoresponders autoresponding. they say it's been consistently 8 median autoresponses per newsletter for 18 years, so when they get zero...
In Windows 10, they added a shortcut Ctrl+Win+Alt+Shift to open Microsoft Office 365 (or whatever they call(ed) it). Caused me a ton of confusion and annoyance when I picked up my laptop by the corner of the keyboard.
I convinced my grandfather to give me $30 to buy one at a garage sale while i was house sitting with him (he had emphysema and was 82 at the time) back in the early 90s. he lived as an adult through the depression, so it was a point of contention between him, me, and my mom. It only came with 1 cartridge iirc, and a brochure showing all the accoutrements you could add to it, speech module, joystick, and i forget what else.
turning it on and getting a BASIC prompt was real cool. never could save anything, though. I traded it in 1999 or so for an Apple IIc with monitor, with which i could save data.
coincidentally, i just mentioned owning a ti-99/4a to a friend yesterday, we were comparing notes about the first computers we actually owned, and that was it, for me. We had an atari (the wood paneled console one, carts, with keyboard built in, BASIC interpreter on ROM) in '87ish i guess, but i only had it for a couple of weeks before i accidentally blew it up with a cable trying to save something to a tape recorder. the tape recorder had a cable in the back that had a 1/8" TS plug, which apparently was a radio shack "universal power supply" and i guess i put 9VDC into the speaker port.
To save you either needed a cassette recorder, plugged into the machine with a special cable, then "SAVE CS1" and follow the instructions. (Start recording, the TI plays sound to the output port, which gets stored on tape. Use "LOAD CS1" to load from cassette, after rewinding to the start of the program.)
Or you needed an expansion box, with a floppy drive, in which case you could do "SAVE DSK1,PROGNAME" to save to "PROGNAME" on the first disk. I didn't have an expansion box.
My parents were forward-thinking enough to, when I wanted a tape player in 1985, get me a significantly less cool-looking but more versatile desktop model with the plugs to eventually hook up to a computer for saving & loading. Which one day, I did!
i was one-shotting voices years ago that were timbre/tonally identical to the reference voice; however the issue i had was inflection and subtlety. I find that female voices are much easier to clone, or at least it fools my brain into thinking so.
this model, if the results weren't too cherry picked, will be huge improvement!
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