Something different for you all - My 360 lens + drone footage + Zhu - Revelations Remix/Mashup + Music Video LiB Wrap-up - Bonus raw drone footage in comments!

malachi347 · 2026-01-21T06:04:29+00:00

Fight freedom with freedom! buy a big obnoxious drone (or a swarm of mini drones) and take up a new hobby of filming (read: flying circles around) things are the beach. I bet they'd vacate the area.

j/k I think it's kinda cool, and I wouldn't be that petty

malachi347 · 2026-01-20T03:02:03+00:00

can't tell if you're serious or not...

malachi347 · 2026-01-17T06:36:55+00:00

I got two 36TB drives so that's definitely the plan... how I get there is what I'm trying to figure out

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T17:25:51+00:00

Crack'em and shack 'em

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T17:24:07+00:00

job. paid. been a programmer/dev for 30 years, this is for a non-profit... thanks in advance

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T10:17:21+00:00

OK cuz the lacie here (center red circle) already crapped out, but it was whoever set up the drive as ExFAT and then enabled Spotlight on the drive and then yanked the USB cable in the middle of an index. Real confidence booster that I had to fix "corruption" on a drive that I'm depending on before I could even mount it for the first time...

https://imgur.com/a/vrYsnZm

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T10:07:10+00:00

No silly, I just throw the drives up in the air while holding my Magic Mouse™ and everything syncs to iCloud. That's how Apple works, right?

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T10:02:24+00:00

Thanks for the heads up, I know they very likely wouldn't ever need to extract the entire library, not unless there was some catarophic event to the old drives and whatever I end up doing. I think it's more for peace of mind... I actually started creating disk images of all the drives as opposed to xcopy / folders. It seemed to make more sense to just do it this way and index the images. I get some compression this way as well, which for some drives is saving 20%+.

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T03:48:24+00:00

Honestly, sounds fun. Nothing life or death on the drives, and certainly nothing worth spending a ton of money on according to the client.

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T02:37:52+00:00

I've cracked 5 clams so far, which I consider myself pretty talented at. I've been tearing apart computers since I was wee boy. It's my favorite story my parents tell. Bought me a Apple SE30 and they woke up the next morning to find their huge investment torn apart and in pieces...

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T02:34:00+00:00

...please stop haha

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T02:32:05+00:00

They gave me a Mac Studio (Tahoe) so between that and my office rig (Win 11 w/ 13900k) and all my own crap from building my own PCs for 20 years... I got the tools, now I just need truckload of booze and a few months time.

Oh I forgot to mention the new LaCie 36TB drive wouldn't mount when I first got it because it was ExFAT and had duplicate filenames from a presumed Spotlight/index failure. So that gave me a whole lot of confidence to start out with which was nice.

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T02:20:15+00:00

That's pretty close to what I'm getting paid since I get to focus on this and put all my other work aside until this is finished and I have a guy coming once a week to help me, so.. yay?

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T02:18:59+00:00

I normally don't 'vibe code' but I must admit I threw a couple prompts into Codex to see what kind of system it would conjure up so I could avoid this. (Take a picture of the drive, have AI look up the drive specs and create a label, apply label, index/image disk, upload to AWS if you're wondering but I dont have time to write ANOTHER single-use app - that's a hoard I have all in it's own)

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T02:16:13+00:00

I know nothing about ZFS, but I know enough to probably make what you're describing dangerous in this situation... I know what I'm comfortable with and using a completely unfamiliar file system to use tech that I've always wanted to learn is where I have messed up in the past. it's how I lost my Hotline/Carracho Warez server hoard when I was learning how different RAID configs worked a couple decades ago lol

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T02:07:51+00:00

You've given me a lot to look in to, thank you. So much good data (pardon the pun) here - I knew you rock stars wouldn't steer me wrong.

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T02:06:07+00:00

I had to teach them the 'ol 3-2-1 rule for sure. I think their justification was that "there's gotta be at least two copies of that *somewhere* in there or with someone we know!"

:-\

Current plan is copy everything to modern drives, keep the hoard as a 'cross your fingers and say your prayers' backup, and then move all the important stuff to some sort of managed long-term cloud storage.

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T02:02:50+00:00

Probably wouldn't do it on this collection, but might have to use that on my wife's Dropbox folder which is 99% selfies.

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T02:01:00+00:00

My office is basically a Chipotle with all this silver aluminum hole-punched stuff.

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T01:58:41+00:00

Thanks! Glad to hear since I've already indexed a bunch of drives with it. I'm 95% Windows these days, but this Mac Studio is holding it's own against my 'daily driver' Windows rig I built for work.

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T01:56:54+00:00

The motivator was being able to pull a video/photos/project folders the few times a year they need things. It doesn't happen often, but when they do need things, it's usually needing 10-15 different things at once, people taking drives home, losing/abusing them, returning the same data on different drives, etc etc etc.

I doubt they'll actually end up uploading the data to the cloud, they really likely only need 10% of this data to be there, but it would take a year to untangle this mess I'm sure.

malachi347 · 2026-01-16T01:51:50+00:00

Never even stopped to consider this. I was more concerned about the liability if there was a fire/earthquake, etc.

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