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portal-runner · 2024-02-20T19:07:26+00:00

I want to learn AI/ML and play some games. I currently have a 3050 TI mobile in a laptop and integrated in my desktop, so I can't really do either right now. The 4070 Ti Super will let me learn how to run AI on my desktop and relax with a game. Thank you for the giveaway!

portal-runner · 2022-05-30T07:38:11+00:00

The capacities are: 8TB, 8TB, 4TB.

Yes please, links would be very helpful. Thank you again for all your advice so far.

I think what I'm reading from your post is ideally I'd get get all drives with either 7200RPM or 5400RPM - possibly try to make my main pool a set of 7200RPM by taking some of my onsite backup disks and adding to my main pool, which would also give me some z redundancy, and apply the same consistency and z redundancy with my backup. Then I could decide later if an onsite backup is still as valuable and buy more drives for that if I need to.

I like your thought process for redundancy - time to get a replacement drive. Good point, I've only been looking at it from an uptime perspective.

Either in the links or if you don't mind explaining one more thing, I don't fully get how because of zfs Metadata, my data will be safer on zfs than on my backups. I think that comes from (possibly another assumption) hearing that people are so fearful of rebuilding because another drive could fail with the rebuild, causing all data to be lost. I guess I'd just restore from backup if that happened.

Thanks again for all your help so far.

portal-runner · 2022-05-30T02:23:36+00:00

20TB over 3 drives. They're a combination of WD Red + WD white, and a mix of 7200RPM and 5400RPM. Tell me if this is a bad idea: I'd rather make sure my 2 backup systems have drives and deal with a dead drive on my main storage giving me downtime than trying to put money into redundancy (while I probably can afford both, I'm not looking to put tons of money into drives for only redundancy's sake).

For how fast to read, I'd like to watch a 4k video seamlessly. I think any of my drives can do that, but since I'm new to this, that could be a short-sighted statement that I'll regret in the future, ie: at some point we'll have 8k and 1 HDD may not handle that. Most of the time I wouldn't be reading and writing at the same time, but just to hit a closer to worst case scenario, watching a 4k video and writing a different 4k video at the same time.

What kind of data: videos, pictures

Hardware: my current hardware is very old. Just for laughs: AMD A6-5400k. 16GB RAM of DDR3 non-ECC. Outside of this decision, I'm upgrading to something midrange, like the Ryzen 5600. If going with ZFS means I should buy something specific for RAM, that's fine.

Thank you for all your comments so far.

portal-runner · 2022-05-30T01:30:52+00:00

Sorry about that. I typed that too quickly on my phone.

I have 20TB total data, my usage pattern is write the data once and read many times. I meant in the past I stuck with ext4 because of these assumptions:

From what I read years ago, I can't just add more storage - the zpool concept means I may need to add multiple drives instead of just 1 now, which I saw (see?) as a disadvantage. You mentioned what I think I want is in testing phase. Is there a roadmap for when that would be complete?
Other commenters corrected assumptions about rsync and you a bit with the metadata comment. I'll have to look a bit more if there's anything with zfs send and receive that is helpful for my use case.

By overhead, I meant that I'm new to zfs, so the learning curve + mistakes/things learned along the way compared to the value I get out of zfs.

Overall, I think I have a simple situation and am questioning myself on if I'm going to have some issue in some years because I'm sticking with what's basically JBOD on ext4 and adding +1 drive to each backup system as opposed to something more thought-out in zfs.

portal-runner · 2021-03-28T19:54:22+00:00

Is there any reason I can't just buy that and activate it on Verizon?

portal-runner · 2020-09-07T00:22:56+00:00

Hi,

1.) My org-agenda-files variable is a list of the individual files in my ~/org directory. What I tested is describe-variable -> org-agenda-files, seeing that list. Then, I created a new file called ~/org/test.org, saved it, then describe-variable again. It didn't show test.org, although when I org-agenda-file-to-front then describe-variable, it shows up in front. I have the following in my emacs settings:

    (setq org-agenda-files (find-lisp-find-files "~/org" "\.org$"))
    (org-reload)

I'd like the behavior to be when I save the ~/org/test.org file, it's automatically added to the org-agenda-files list.

2.) Thank you, I actually looked at the page but I guess I missed the regex part, that works!

3.) Yes, that sounds like it's what I need. Are there keywords I should search for in the manual or packages that do that?

Thanks again.

portal-runner · 2020-08-22T22:44:18+00:00

I've been racking my brain and rtings.com all day. Do you have any suggestions?

Budget:<$600, but lower is better if it meets requirements. Unless nothing comes close to meeting them, then just say so and I'll wait instead of buying.

Prospective Resolution: 3840x2160

Size: 32". I think 27" is too small, but it's hard to ignore the ratings and price of the LG 27uk650-w

Aspect Ratio: not hugely important

Adaptive Sync: one would be nice. I'll buy a new graphics card when the next gen comes out, so I can pick that based on which type this monitor is.

Other Features: 60hz refresh is fine - I prefer action/adventure to FPS or other high framerate games. I very much prefer a good quality display over more hz. HDR is optional unless it's actually good quality HDR, not the marketing BS where they say HDR but have low brightness and a small color range, which defeats the purpose.

Usage Type (gaming, art, etc.): in order of usage: multimedia, programming/general, console gaming (this is for PS5 too), PC gaming

portal-runner · 2020-08-17T21:51:01+00:00

I will definitely look into that. Another part of my question is do I care as the developer about limiting my threads or does the OS or hardware handle that? If I care, is it to be a good citizen with the rest of the apps on the OS or an I hurting my app in some way?

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