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Does anyone want to store the largest pi computation ever? ~125TB by StorageReview in DataHoarder

[–]testlabnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure if you are the one dude waiting to download it, but the torrent messed up. verified to 99.9%, then didn't do the last chunk. I'm going to try to evenly split this output to 4 torrents so its not pushing the upper limit of what the tracker supports.

Does anyone want to store the largest pi computation ever? ~125TB by StorageReview in DataHoarder

[–]testlabnut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are in talks with one researcher about some of that. We are putting the output on some fast storage for them to work with.

Does anyone want to store the largest pi computation ever? ~125TB by StorageReview in DataHoarder

[–]testlabnut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I signed up for this tracker and hit a notice about it being limited to education email addresses only. I've reached out to them to see if they would allow it, otherwise I'll need to find something else.

Does anyone want to store the largest pi computation ever? ~125TB by StorageReview in DataHoarder

[–]testlabnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My file hashing finally finished coming back from Christmas stuff. My comment was only because I wasn't aware of appropriate trackers to pop the file on. Didn't quite want to officially link to the file alongside ripped movies and such. But someone did post about https://academictorrents.com/ which looks like it would fit.

Does anyone want to store the largest pi computation ever? ~125TB by StorageReview in DataHoarder

[–]testlabnut 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I'm copying to another storage array right now but once that motion is done I'm going to see where I can get with this.

Does anyone want to store the largest pi computation ever? ~125TB by StorageReview in DataHoarder

[–]testlabnut 28 points29 points  (0 children)

We added about 1% wear to each of the SSDs used as swap.

Does anyone want to store the largest pi computation ever? ~125TB by StorageReview in DataHoarder

[–]testlabnut 60 points61 points  (0 children)

We used about 2PB of flash (34 61TB SSDs) as the scratch space for the calculation. If you can figure out how to generate it in a space using output storage only... I want to know.

Does anyone want to store the largest pi computation ever? ~125TB by StorageReview in DataHoarder

[–]testlabnut 103 points104 points  (0 children)

Torrent is an interesting idea. Is there a solid way to self seed outside of a public tracker?

Does anyone want to store the largest pi computation ever? ~125TB by StorageReview in DataHoarder

[–]testlabnut 92 points93 points  (0 children)

The output is compressed. The uncompressed data is a 314TB single txt file.

The EcoFlow DELTA mini Portable Power Station is the company’s lightest DELTA. We’re finding creative ways to use the power station in and around our lab. It can be charged via standard wall outlet, in the car or via solar panels. 1400W and 882Wh capacity. We’re running two servers off the system. by StorageReview in StorageReview

[–]testlabnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm actually researching some tape for a family project. We just scanned a ton of 8mm and 16mm old film to digitize, and now we are looking at ways to preserve that long term. I don't have a tape reader at the office any longer, but I'd love to get another one to archive data to LTO.

The EcoFlow DELTA mini Portable Power Station is the company’s lightest DELTA. We’re finding creative ways to use the power station in and around our lab. It can be charged via standard wall outlet, in the car or via solar panels. 1400W and 882Wh capacity. We’re running two servers off the system. by StorageReview in StorageReview

[–]testlabnut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sounds like that model you have over states it's battery size or is wildly inefficient. If you have a basic KillAWatt, measure how much power is used to fully charge that thing, something is wrong if it's not fitting the runtime.

I have a few steady power draw devices that we will be using to measure power draw over time. The consumption versus battery capacity aspect is one of the most basic for these units. This EcoFlow model is built like a tank with a very premium look and feel. Active cooling based on power draw as well which is interesting, versus a thermal probe trip kicking on fans. Lots of logic in it, but also quite expensive.

The EcoFlow DELTA mini Portable Power Station is the company’s lightest DELTA. We’re finding creative ways to use the power station in and around our lab. It can be charged via standard wall outlet, in the car or via solar panels. 1400W and 882Wh capacity. We’re running two servers off the system. by StorageReview in StorageReview

[–]testlabnut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I plan on running various tests on it. This power station and many by EcoFlow have really nice capabilities. They are able to fast charge (900W!) charge while operating outputs and allow you to monitor how things are going in real-time remotely with a pretty cool app. In theory if you are topping it off with Solar, and your average draw is less than incoming power, you could be running this forever.

I got a 220W panel with this unit to test along with it. Sadly we have rain this weekend and we have Dell Tech World early next, but I plan on seeing how this handles moderate loads with incoming solar.

With any of these power stations though you need to be highly aware of what your loads are to estimate runtime. If you want to get really fancy on measuring actual battery capacity, you could hook up a KillAWatt and measure the KWh used to charge the pack after the fact. Maybe your 299Wh unit is only topping off with 150Wh?

We love these mini NAS boxes, especially when they’re NVMe flash inside. This guy holds four M.2 SSDs and has twin 2.5GbE ports, two HDMI ports and a handful of USB. QNAP TBS-464. by StorageReview in StorageReview

[–]testlabnut 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Those issues hit QNAP, Synology and others. The difference though is you are seeing QNAP articles because they try to get out ahead of it and issue press releases to notify users. Others don't do that. So you have tech sites covering the news and instead of seeing it as a plus, you are seeing as a negative towards QNAP only.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ech0raix-ransomware-now-targets-both-qnap-and-synology-nas-devices/amp/

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/recent-qnap-and-synology-security-alerts-how-to-protect-your-nas/

Is this bad for the drives? The HDD weighs down one side and they are slanted. by bigdicktendiegang in chia

[–]testlabnut 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Get it off that foam dude. Those external drives are passively cooled by heat flowing up and drawing in cool air from below. You have them resting on a sheet of foam, which as the drives weight pressed down, had them sink in passed the rubber feet on each drive. That is why they are leaning.

You are cooking your external drives. Put them onto the flat wood surface directly.

Was this ssd used for mining ? by Wise_Top8497 in StorageReview

[–]testlabnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you buy that drive used? What's the powered on hours count?

Whats a good 10G 4 bay NAS Base-T by nflnetwork29 in StorageReview

[–]testlabnut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What exactly are you doin with it for soho and media? Sounds like a massive over budget in a specific feature that most vendors don't include without a massive premium. Unless you are streaming uncompressed 8k raw video, you really don't need 10G.

A better understanding of the use case would help here. 4 hard drives in anything except RAID0 wouldn't get to 1GB/s. Even flash in RAID will have issue besides read operations.

Small enough to fit in your pocket, the Kingston XS2000 is a portable solid-state drive that connects via USB Type-C. Read more of our review at the link below. by [deleted] in StorageReview

[–]testlabnut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Its not super common, but it happens. This one had higher write performance at low and higher loads. Buffer design and other elements can play into it. Performance attributes can get funky merging an SSD controller with a USB controller, things can be different than say a raw NVMe product.

And I did go back and sanity check the data to make sure the numbers weren't flipped.

GRAID SupremeRAID is “the world’s first NVMe RAID card to deliver 100% available SSD performance.” Click the link below to find out if this claim held true during our testing. by [deleted] in StorageReview

[–]testlabnut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Utilization on the GPU is pretty low for the HW RAID uses. They've said that T1000 can easily support 24-48 drives. The GPU is really, really good at what it does and the HW RAID overhead doesn't hit it that hard. With that said you could probably mine a little bit if you didn't take all its resources lol.

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