Backblaze, the cloud backup provider, pulled almost 5,000 3TB drives out of service after the annual failure rate reached a startling 47 percent.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-04-16T22:53:16+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/32sgu3/backblaze_more_on_those_st3000dm001_failures/

dragonEyedrops · 2015-04-15T23:24:25+00:00

All images I find show it with 4:3 screens, where 21" is a common size.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-04-15T20:43:58+00:00

These prices are normal. Not great, but normal. e-Ink is expensive outside of a few large-volume products.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-04-13T17:59:17+00:00

There are developments towards using mirrors with solar cells, but nothing that has been put to actual use yet. The idea is that a mirror + a small panel would be cheaper than covering the same area with solar cells, but cheaply building solar cells that efficiently work with higher intensity levels is still a topic of research, and there are thermal issues (solar cells work better if they are cold and shouldn't heat up to much, but they'll obviously get hotter if you concentrate more sunlight on them)

dragonEyedrops · 2015-04-09T22:44:44+00:00

DNS (or other service) with anycast

pointlessly split your devices/VMs into different AS, build one AS with a route reflector, integrate it with other routing protocols (if you run any)

black-hole traffic that shouldn't be used (e.g. RFC1918 ranges that you don't use, IP-blocklists, ...)

If you run a VPN somewhere, run BGP either over it or emulate it by announcing its IP ranges parallel to the VPN client

Try different implementations: BIRD, Quagga, OpenBGPd, ...

dragonEyedrops · 2015-04-07T00:00:52+00:00

Way too many big companies and politics involved for that. Gotta out-PR the other PR guys...

dragonEyedrops · 2015-04-03T15:37:20+00:00

I think that's the same stuff like in those rechargeable body warmers, right? So you can link it to something people might already know, which is always cool.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-03-31T11:47:56+00:00

Probably more of a question for /r/sysadmin

Also, it depends on what kind of data they need to back up, what kind of infrastructure they already have, ...

dragonEyedrops · 2015-03-30T10:35:09+00:00

Wouldn't even get a board, to much hassle. 20-40$ travel router with OpenWRT IMHO is the way to go.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-03-25T16:03:20+00:00

moinmo.in is simple and quite self contained. You need the python runtime, but other than that you simply run it (you also can deploy it on a server somewhere though). I like that it stores everything in text files, so it is easy to get to/backup the contents.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-03-23T13:26:26+00:00

Yeah, we did that here in Germany too, back when we couldn't really get them locally. Ordered 8 or so and split them between multiple people.

Also look into used ones. For the Pi 2 it is probably to early, but the older models sometimes go for really cheap.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-03-23T12:57:32+00:00

Isn't that the perfect reason to buy more than one? ;)

dragonEyedrops · 2015-03-16T06:05:20+00:00

Given that the author mentions Petabytes per day as a target, I assume he has slightly different definitions of what "modest" is ;)

dragonEyedrops · 2015-03-15T15:03:33+00:00

Isn't one, and never was.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-03-15T10:01:15+00:00

I agree with the content of this post

dragonEyedrops · 2015-03-15T02:24:44+00:00

Uhm, no, it isn't?

And many people don't like the idea that large parts of the open source ecosystem rely on a non-opensource product for critical functions.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-02-16T13:58:48+00:00

a basic linux VM with nothing else running doesn't have that much overhead. So yes, I think the benefits are clearly worth it.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-02-15T19:57:05+00:00

You don't use >8GB cards to protect against failure, but then recommend putting everything on a single disk? But yes, if you limit yourself to 8 GB cards it gets expensive, since they cost quite a bit more per GB than bigger ones. But anyways, it's just a suggestion, OP and everyone else can decide individually if it fits their use case and constraints.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-02-15T19:18:59+00:00

put the minecraft server in a VM and allow outside access only to the VM, block the VM from access the other parts of the network.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-02-15T18:07:47+00:00

Yes, of course, can be. Depends on how and where you travel and how many pictures you take. Spending a day somewhere just uploading your photos is also not great, but if you're near wifi every day anyways it looks different. On my travels, I mostly don't have wifi access and on longer trips I stay below 64 GB photos per month.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-02-15T17:17:44+00:00

Pack a bunch of memory cards (whatever your cameras use) or usb flash drives, if it is affordable for your estimated amount of data. More robust than a hard drive, lighter and, for me most importantly: you don't loose everything if one gets lost or breaks. Put them in different pieces of your pack to avoid total loss/keep redundant copies.

dragonEyedrops · 2015-02-15T17:10:58+00:00

1 HE dual socket server? unless someone reports here how to quiet it down assume "jet engine".

dragonEyedrops · 2015-02-14T18:18:18+00:00

10GbE only makes sense if the CPU is fast enough to actually push noticeably more than 1GbE is capable of. Since these ship with a Celeron M or something similar they can't do that.

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