Here is the thing – as long as you have redundancy to prevent data loss, at 50% off you could literally lose 40% of the drives immediately and still come out ahead.

The odds of having that many fail are incredibly low.

I am using 8x18TB recertified EXOS drives for two years in my UNRAID Server without a problem.

I've had recertified Exos drives running on my home NAS for about 6 months without issue. So far so good I guess. Though I do have multiple backups of just about everything.

All of my drives are pretty much HGST refurb drives from eBay.

Been using them oh gosh…since AT LEAST 2007, in varying capacities.

In my experience, pretty much all of the drives that has died, did so because the AMBIENT environment started getting hot (e.g. system was sitting in front of a heater vent because that's the only place where I could put it in the room that I was renting, when I was in uni), but otherwise have had GREAT experiences with it.

I would NEVER buy Seagate.

And you're 100% right about the migration from cloud BACK to on-prem, because it doesn't take a genius to be able to figure out the math and the economics for on-prem deployment favours on-prem systems SIGNIFICANTLY.

I'm still surprised that you guys aren't using LTO tape for archiving, but for long term archival usage, it'd be better and cheaper, to go with tape.

still dont understand the need to store every second of raw footage recorded. why not just store h265 4k 10mbps proxies or something.

That server CPU is only 8 years old? I recently checked what kind of CPU is in the server we have to use a VDI on at work for some tasks for security reasons… It was a xeon from 2012… And yes it's unbearably slow. If I haven't logged into it for a while I better wait for like an hour after starting it to let the virus scan do its thing as it just 100%s the three cores I get for about that long. Luckily I personally don't need it much, it's terrible.

storage will be always the problem if you will keep all the raw material.

I liked the video, but wouldn't trust Seagate for data storage. The only HDD I've ever had fail on me was from Seagate and I believe that the motor died in it. Not worth the risk.

So wait, to hold a bunch of storage in a drive, at least a terabyte, whats the best option?

Supposedly, Michael Jackson was a Petabyte.

Jazz

I’ve been running 4 of these drives in raid 10 for 2 years with no issues so far, planning on picking up another 2 soon unless this video makes the price less appealing

Why do you need to store your old videos at all? And that too in the highest quality. That's just crazy and unnecessary.

What if you guys invested in research to utilize storage in a way that can store 10x more data compared to what you can do with it today? I mean recovery software can recover already deleted files by converting or building the storage map, so why not do something similar intentionally to break – encrypt, and store much more data than what we can store today. Like a storage gear or unit that can store the storage map and use the storage as a multiplier. So, the storage would act as RAM and have a small storage for the unit to store the map image, the rest is to project the unwrapped data based on the map stored and remapped by the unit.

I am not a computer scientist so, don`t blame me for anything, but if we have a small processing unit that handles a storage media where the generated storage maps would be stored and launched from, and there is RAM (Random Access Memory) to handle the DAM (Direct Access Memory) – the actual storage devices linked together, I think it might work. It would take time probably to launch and build the data, but if the encryption key would also be used to allocate the information that is stored on the map, there would be no chance of restoring anything without it.

Let us assume that we link BTC mining machines and their network as a security feature and that we have linked our data using the minted already block and hashes to organize our data. Every time someone asks for access to the data a private key would be launched and the private keys would be generated, it would make it near impossible to break into our storage and would likely keep mining beneficial even after all BTC had been minted.

And, once we can link storage to BTC private and public keys, we can basically use its network as an actual network capable of sending instructions, launching protocols, allowing access to data, or absolutely anything that we want as long as we embed its features into our operating system or any operating system at all. It could serve as a universal ultimate handler.

The real question is, how would it affect BTC price if we payout miners and owners could impact the market price, or store the fees and dump it into a BTC foundation that would serve as a reserve to cover its value, equivalent in FIAT currencies, or bonds, or anything that is linked to it.

Ultimately its price would increase indefinitely as anything that can be an attached value could be or would be regulated through its system to provide security and efficiency once everything goes through it, banks, governments, and complete infrastructures could be governed by this system globally, sending instructions or utilizing resources, data, power or commands, all through it.

Hehe these are good boards … But I would go for arctic cooling rater than noctua it has better front to back airflow arrangement.. noctua is 90deg rotated it sucks

Last Seagate drive I had was a 3TB. It started to fail just within warranty, so I went to get it replaced. They sent a "certified refurb" that was in even worse condition right out of the box. I notified them and they promised a manufactured new replacement; when that arrived, it was a completely DoA refurb again. Then they promised a mfr new AGAIN… AND THAT TOTALLY FAILED IN 2 MONTHS. So they replaced THAT drive with a drive that TOTALLY FAILED IN 6 MONTHS. I didn't bother contacting them again and I've convinced several people not to deal with them since. None of my WD HDDs have failed, nor have the ones I've recommended people. Even the used, 20yr+ old IDE HDDs we use for old electronics are either Toshiba or WD. I think it's usually Seagates that we're replacing.
I don't recommend WD SSDs, because they hid how they shut off 2 lanes on a PCIe4x4 SSD in a gen 3 slot. That caused an issue in a mobo that didn't allow 3×2, only 3×4.
1 RMA: 5 bad drives.

Buying any kind of storage on ebay is stupid.

How many petabytes till the next XXbyte name? A million?

I started my current rendition of my NAS back in 2012 or so with 9x of their 3TB drives. Pretty sure same seller on ebay (or was VERY similar listings, server recertified stuff). Those 9 drives are STILL in use to this day in various rigs around my PC collection. Currently have been rocking 6x 14TB drives, also recertified ebay drives. They've been rocking for 4 years straight, not one hiccup. Every hard drive in my current collection has been recertified drives, haven't had one problem yet. Did have ONE drive fail a zero fill on arrival but the seller sent a replacement immediately.

Nahhhh she'll be right.

I've once bought an after-lease Alienware QD-OLED display for half the price, it had a A- rating and it was stated that it came with no cables. I open the box and boom, two boxes of brand new premium cables (first wow). Then I turn this thing on, go to the onboard stats and boom nr 2., power-on time: 3 hours. I felt pretty lucky lmao

Can't wait till someone does a project like this with the latest 32TB HDD's. So much storage 🤤

5:45 note that hexOS does not support single drives. Sure you can go into truenas below and create a pool with just one drive, but it´s not as plug and play as intended by hexOS

Linus dropping stuff has become so commonplace, that nobody give a dayum anymore.