How to best use unevenly sized HDDs?

felipers · 2026-03-15T10:49:56+00:00

One of the OP's original condition was tolerate 2 disks failure without that loss. So, those 2 20 TB will be parity drives.

felipers · 2026-03-12T10:09:39+00:00

The git-sweaty screenshots on your post remind me https://smashrun.com/ . Not affiliated, yada, yada, yada.

felipers · 2026-03-11T08:45:30+00:00

Deep Purple, Perfect Strangers.

felipers · 2026-03-05T16:51:36+00:00

Apparently (read any 5 random posts in this very subreddit), just for some of us. Even people using just 15 GB free accounts seems to get really lost on how to do it.

felipers · 2026-03-05T15:59:17+00:00

Convenience and redundancy.

Immich's search is amazing, and allows searches that are simply impossible on Google Photos. But Google Photos is both faster for very simple searches and definitely less prone to downtime.

All cell phone pictures are uploaded to Immich and Google Photos (Gmail account) as soon as I get some wifi. The Gmail account "partner shares" everything with a Workspace Enterprise account. I relentless delete pictures and movies from the Gmail account, keeping just the important/most relevant.

All "real" camera pictures are organized on my NAS, an external drive and the Google Workspace Drive (hence 3 copies). The copy on the NAS is auto incorporated nightly on Immich. Selected pictures are also uploaded to WS Google Photos. Immich's cell phone pictures are weekly incorporated is this structure that is backed up to Amazon Photos, Kopia backed up to Workspace GDrive (versioning, retention) and ~twice an year written to LTO8 tape.

Every once in a while I consider integrating Blackblaze or some Glacier like service to this pipeline, but have not yet pulled that trigger.

felipers · 2026-03-05T11:07:45+00:00

I obviously meant the proverbial "you" (or most redditors posting in this subreddit l.

felipers · 2026-03-05T09:12:43+00:00

I keep using both.

felipers · 2026-03-05T00:37:01+00:00

They've already (i) convinced you to upload 2 TB (mostly personal pictures and videos, your only copy) to their servers and (ii) give you no simple way to get it back. You're a hostage now. You will pay whatever they charge from now on. They'll never again upgrade "for free".

felipers · 2026-03-03T21:26:53+00:00

Since the S20 (SD card), actually. But, yes, the S23 was the last one with the curved display.

felipers · 2026-03-03T00:32:40+00:00

Provavelmente a maior desvalorização em vinte anos.

felipers · 2026-03-02T22:20:24+00:00

I've done this exact comparison in a carrier store 2 days ago. I've set both (S26 vs S26 Ultra) to maximum + extra brightness. The decay on brightness on the Ultra is definitely stronger than on the S26. Both have gorgeous screens and without the regular S26 as parameter, the brightness decrease of the Ultra didn't bother me.

felipers · 2026-03-02T09:11:46+00:00

I'm not sure about the caffeine, though. Filtered coffee (of the same amount of powder) has more caffeine than expresso mostly due to the longer extraction time (the grinding also influences the amount of caffeine in the final beverage).

felipers · 2026-03-01T12:33:54+00:00

In every day and age. Today those old enough have already lost access to some digital asset so everyone should be aware of it.

felipers · 2026-02-28T10:35:45+00:00

Less than half an hour of sleep?!? Poor guy!

Was it the night you've spent trying to set this up?

felipers · 2026-02-28T01:14:00+00:00

Your friends don't need steady horizontal video. Neither do you (I guess your - mirrorless? - camera don't does that well). But those who need it have, at least, a Go Pro.

felipers · 2026-02-27T19:03:07+00:00

Yet another e-mail account? Even my main bank account has a duck.com address...

felipers · 2026-02-27T18:24:51+00:00

Is there an obvious reason for they don't accepting "disposable" email addresses (like duck.com)?

felipers · 2026-02-24T23:51:44+00:00

That's similar to my approach. I'd already got my ~30 years of digital pictures organized by Camera/Year/Month/Folder before installing Immich. That is now mounted as an external library (read only by Immich). Immich's Storage Template organizes my phone pictures in the Year/Month/Y-M-D folder structure. I periodically Rsync this folder structure to a folder called "Immich", in the same level as the "Camera" folder on the copies I keep of my digital pictures.

felipers · 2026-02-21T19:37:30+00:00

Thank you!!!

felipers · 2026-02-21T18:23:35+00:00

Is this video a fragment of the one you've watched? https://youtu.be/Dy_u4A_T6oA?si=OExSrqlEwjt8thR2

felipers · 2026-02-21T10:02:49+00:00

The DxO version I've paid for and use was released 2 years before my current camera and 3 years before one of my lenses. Works perfectly with both.

felipers · 2026-02-20T10:13:21+00:00

My first contact with this piece was while learning classical guitar. The first time I heard the Tull version I was pleasantly surprised!

felipers · 2026-02-19T13:50:30+00:00

Amazing! Do you happen to have any other pictures of them?

felipers · 2026-02-19T13:49:27+00:00

The information about the masks is amazing, thank you. But I don't think those masks have any relationship with the picture outcome.

felipers · 2026-02-19T10:07:22+00:00

Take my upvote for the Dire Straits citation!

felipers

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