A lot of it's stuff I've captured to read/view/listen later - and I'll never live that long or have that much free time! (So if I set up a rolling project
of 15m a day over a year I could probably junk 75% of it all...)
I have a QNAP TS431 running 4 x 2TB as JBOD. Read somewhere that since
that means the system is on one of the drives if that goes all is lost,
can't so far find any confirmation.
RAID 6 would give me 4 TB usable and 2 drive failure tolerance. 4 TB is
fine for me. does that sound like a good plan?
In article <xn0o42lmh25zx53004@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines wrote...
I have a QNAP TS431 running 4 x 2TB as JBOD. Read somewhere that since
that means the system is on one of the drives if that goes all is lost, can't so far find any confirmation.
RAID 6 would give me 4 TB usable and 2 drive failure tolerance. 4 TB is fine for me. does that sound like a good plan?
There's often talk in this group of how people manage their juggabytes of data.
And I often wonder what it is? Video? Music? Photos? Documents?
My important stuff is almost all in OneDrive, and that's under 25GB. Of which,
according to Treesize:
Pictures: 5.9 (GB)
Audio: 5.4
Software 5.2 (installers I've downloaded)
Refurbishment project: 3.1
Ebooks: 1.5
Manuals: 0.5
... and it drops off rapidly from there.
A lot of it's stuff I've captured to read/view/listen later - and I'll never live that long or have that much free time! (So if I set up a rolling project
of 15m a day over a year I could probably junk 75% of it all...)
On 11 Jul 2023 at 11:56:48 BST, "Philip Herlihy" <PhillipHerlihy@SlashDevNull.invalid> wrote:
A lot of it's stuff I've captured to read/view/listen later - and I'll never
live that long or have that much free time! (So if I set up a rolling project
of 15m a day over a year I could probably junk 75% of it all...)
Very much this; much of the stuff is old usenet binary downloading
habits from before video streaming services, too. After the last round
of drive updates I instituted a similar program followed by deletion if
I'm never going to watch it again, plus recoding some larger 'keeper'
things down to 720p h.265.
I have more space than I did, which is satisfying.
Cheers - Jaimie
In article <xn0o42lmh25zx53004@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines wrote...
I have a QNAP TS431 running 4 x 2TB as JBOD. Read somewhere that since
that means the system is on one of the drives if that goes all is lost, >>can't so far find any confirmation.
RAID 6 would give me 4 TB usable and 2 drive failure tolerance. 4 TB is >>fine for me. does that sound like a good plan?
There's often talk in this group of how people manage their juggabytes of >data.
And I often wonder what it is? Video? Music? Photos? Documents?
My important stuff is almost all in OneDrive, and that's under 25GB. Of >which,
according to Treesize:
Pictures: 5.9 (GB)
Audio: 5.4
Software 5.2 (installers I've downloaded)
Refurbishment project: 3.1
Ebooks: 1.5
Manuals: 0.5
... and it drops off rapidly from there.
A lot of it's stuff I've captured to read/view/listen later - and I'll
never
live that long or have that much free time! (So if I set up a rolling >project
of 15m a day over a year I could probably junk 75% of it all...)
In article <xn0o42lmh25zx53004@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines wrote...
I have a QNAP TS431 running 4 x 2TB as JBOD. Read somewhere that since
that means the system is on one of the drives if that goes all is lost, can't so far find any confirmation.
RAID 6 would give me 4 TB usable and 2 drive failure tolerance. 4 TB is fine for me. does that sound like a good plan?
There's often talk in this group of how people manage their juggabytes of data.
And I often wonder what it is? Video? Music? Photos? Documents?
In article <xn0o42lmh25zx53004@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines wrote...
I have a QNAP TS431 running 4 x 2TB as JBOD. Read somewhere that since
that means the system is on one of the drives if that goes all is lost,
can't so far find any confirmation.
RAID 6 would give me 4 TB usable and 2 drive failure tolerance. 4 TB is
fine for me. does that sound like a good plan?
There's often talk in this group of how people manage their juggabytes of data.
And I often wonder what it is? Video? Music? Photos? Documents?
On 11 Jul 2023 at 11:56:48 BST, Philip Herlihy wrote:
In article <xn0o42lmh25zx53004@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines wrote... >>>
I have a QNAP TS431 running 4 x 2TB as JBOD. Read somewhere that since
that means the system is on one of the drives if that goes all is lost,
can't so far find any confirmation.
RAID 6 would give me 4 TB usable and 2 drive failure tolerance. 4 TB is
fine for me. does that sound like a good plan?
There's often talk in this group of how people manage their juggabytes of data.
And I often wonder what it is? Video? Music? Photos? Documents?
Of the about 5TB, 3TB of video - films, TV series, music videos, 1TB music, then a few hundred GB of documents and photos.
Only the photos and a few of the documents of any real importance and irreplaceable, making me have a harder think about backups and access now I'm not working, have a little less money, and more of an eye towards the environmental impact of it all.
Meant to add - http://www.derlien.com gives a neat snapshot a file sizes and types.
Philip Herlihy <PhillipHerlihy@slashdevnull.invalid> wrote:
In article <xn0o42lmh25zx53004@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines wrote... >>>
I have a QNAP TS431 running 4 x 2TB as JBOD. Read somewhere that since
that means the system is on one of the drives if that goes all is lost,
can't so far find any confirmation.
RAID 6 would give me 4 TB usable and 2 drive failure tolerance. 4 TB is
fine for me. does that sound like a good plan?
There's often talk in this group of how people manage their juggabytes of data.
And I often wonder what it is? Video? Music? Photos? Documents?
I have a few principles:
1. Be generous in what you keep. It takes less time than fine sorting through things.
2. If the disc isn't full, continue with point 1)
3. When the disc becomes full, you have choices:
a) Buy a bigger disc. Maybe the disc is old and needs replacing anyway.
b) Delete stuff
Deleting stuff that is a few years old is easier because you know if it's important or not based on whether you used it in the intervening time, and have a better idea whether you might use it in future.
Effectively it moves the 'curating' activity (which is the time consuming bit) from the front end to the back end, where it can be done more efficiently.
On 11 Jul 2023 at 14:21:54 BST, "Theo"
<theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
Philip Herlihy <PhillipHerlihy@slashdevnull.invalid> wrote:
In article <xn0o42lmh25zx53004@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines wrote... >>>>
I have a QNAP TS431 running 4 x 2TB as JBOD. Read somewhere that since >>>> that means the system is on one of the drives if that goes all is lost, >>>> can't so far find any confirmation.
RAID 6 would give me 4 TB usable and 2 drive failure tolerance. 4 TB is >>>> fine for me. does that sound like a good plan?
There's often talk in this group of how people manage their juggabytes of data.
And I often wonder what it is? Video? Music? Photos? Documents?
I have a few principles:
1. Be generous in what you keep. It takes less time than fine sorting
through things.
2. If the disc isn't full, continue with point 1)
3. When the disc becomes full, you have choices:
a) Buy a bigger disc. Maybe the disc is old and needs replacing anyway.
b) Delete stuff
Deleting stuff that is a few years old is easier because you know if it's
important or not based on whether you used it in the intervening time, and >> have a better idea whether you might use it in future.
Effectively it moves the 'curating' activity (which is the time consuming
bit) from the front end to the back end, where it can be done more
efficiently.
I would like to subscribe to this cunning plan.
The main trick is at 3a try and avoid buying many hundred poundsworth of large HDDs.
Cheers - Jaimie
On 11/07/2023 18:55, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On 11 Jul 2023 at 14:21:54 BST, "Theo"
<theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
Philip Herlihy <PhillipHerlihy@slashdevnull.invalid> wrote:
In article <xn0o42lmh25zx53004@news.individual.net>, Jeff GainesI have a few principles:
wrote...
I have a QNAP TS431 running 4 x 2TB as JBOD. Read somewhere that since >>>>> that means the system is on one of the drives if that goes all is
lost,
can't so far find any confirmation.
RAID 6 would give me 4 TB usable and 2 drive failure tolerance. 4
TB is
fine for me. does that sound like a good plan?
There's often talk in this group of how people manage their
juggabytes of data.
And I often wonder what it is? Video? Music? Photos? Documents? >>>
1. Be generous in what you keep. It takes less time than fine sorting
through things.
2. If the disc isn't full, continue with point 1)
3. When the disc becomes full, you have choices:
a) Buy a bigger disc. Maybe the disc is old and needs replacing anyway.
b) Delete stuff
Deleting stuff that is a few years old is easier because you know if
it's
important or not based on whether you used it in the intervening
time, and
have a better idea whether you might use it in future.
Effectively it moves the 'curating' activity (which is the time
consuming
bit) from the front end to the back end, where it can be done more
efficiently.
I would like to subscribe to this cunning plan.
The main trick is at 3a try and avoid buying many hundred poundsworth of
large HDDs.
Cheers - Jaimie
hence your shucking....
I've done this myself, having picked up 4 off 1TB USB caddies from Tesco
and pulled the HDDs out of that as they were being discontinued.
Rinsed and repeated several years later with 4 off Seagate Central 2TB network drives for £40 eash as they were being discontinued.
Tesco seem to have stopped selling IT gear and Home entertainment like
TVs and Tesco Direct has also closed down.
Meant to add - http://www.derlien.com gives a neat snapshot a file sizes and >> types.
Looks like a Mac "version" inspired by WinDirStat ... does it have the annoying pacmen?
There's often talk in this group of how people manage their juggabytes of data.
And I often wonder what it is? Video? Music? Photos? Documents?
I have a few principles:
1. Be generous in what you keep. It takes less time than fine sorting through things.
2. If the disc isn't full, continue with point 1)
3. When the disc becomes full, you have choices:
a) Buy a bigger disc. Maybe the disc is old and needs replacing anyway.
b) Delete stuff
Deleting stuff that is a few years old is easier because you know if it's important or not based on whether you used it in the intervening time, and have a better idea whether you might use it in future.
Effectively it moves the 'curating' activity (which is the time consuming bit) from the front end to the back end, where it can be done more efficiently.
On 11 Jul 2023 at 14:21:54 BST, Theo wrote:
In a wider sense I think less will be known about this period of history in 500 years' time than we know now about the Romans. The signal to noise of digital data archives must be enormous even now. In another 50 years the sum total would surely look like gibberish.
I have a few principles:
1. Be generous in what you keep. It takes less time than fine sorting through things.
2. If the disc isn't full, continue with point 1)
3. When the disc becomes full, you have choices:
a) Buy a bigger disc. Maybe the disc is old and needs replacing anyway.
b) Delete stuff
Deleting stuff that is a few years old is easier because you know if it's important or not based on whether you used it in the intervening time, and have a better idea whether you might use it in future.
Effectively it moves the 'curating' activity (which is the time consuming bit) from the front end to the back end, where it can be done more efficiently.
Theo
On 11 Jul 2023 at 15:59:57 BST, RJH wrote:
Meant to add - http://www.derlien.com gives a neat snapshot a file sizes and types.
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