++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[Red Squirrel]

Nef

 

[FeuerFrei]

So ... GoT is over?

Just wondering ... I might want to pick up some themed merchandise. Not officially licensed stuff.

Sorry, don't tv much these days.

 

[sdifox]

Jesus fucking Christ, shark population has declined 90%

 

[IronWing]

Jesus fucking Christ, shark population has declined 90%

F'in tornadoes.

 

[sdifox]

F'in tornadoes.

No, it's finning practice. They catch shark, cut off its fins then dump shark back in water to drown.

 

[sdifox]

Rest of the shark is not worth much and just takes up freezer room.

 

[IronWing]

I kind of miss the onslaughts of Turkish posters we were getting.

 

[sdifox]

I kind of miss the onslaughts of Turkish posters we were getting.

Lol why?

 

[Red Squirrel]

No, it's finning practice. They catch shark, cut off its fins then dump shark back in water to drown.

It's so sickening that this happens so much. Pisses me off.

It should be legal to destructively disable illegal fishing ships. Not necessarily sink them so everyone dies, but disable them so they are stranded and have to stop operations and radio for help. It's the only way this sort of thing is going to stop.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Mowed my lawn for the first time of the season. Most spots are still yellow/dry but some spots have been growing so it still had to be done.

 

[bigboxes]

Got two 8TB Western Digital branded HGST enterprise drives to use as backups. Copying data from the SATA dock via USB 3.0. I could just rip the side off the server's case and hook it up directly and get a lot better speeds. Don't care. The most I'll probably copy at one time is now. After that it will be as simple as plopping in the drive into the dock and backing up the newest data. I'm working on drive #2. This is going to fill up the backup storage case just fine.

 

[sdifox]

internet is my backup

 

[IronWing]

God is my backup camera.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Those drive docks are great for backups. I need to buy more drives to increase my backup rotation though... and actually remember to do them more often. I have lot of local backups that go to a separate raid array, but cold backups are a good idea too.

 

[sdifox]

Tonkotsu ramen with garlic and sesame oil nef. Had to order extra noodles.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Morning nef

 

[sdifox]

It's past noon...

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wasn't 26 minutes ago.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Think my coffee machine is trying to kill me via dracarys. I think a relay is stuck open or the water level sensor is failed. The heat element that boils the water just stays on all the time now. I can hear all the residual water just boiling away even when it's turned off. Didn't do that before. I just unplug it after each use now but I should probably look further into that. It's just an el cheapo one so could be an excuse to buy a fancier one.

 

[bigboxes]

Labeled and put away. A good feeling.

I've still got two 10TB and two 8TB enterprise drives that I'm going to be using in the future server.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That's a cool case.

I'm probably due to upgrade my storage myself, and also add bigger drives to my cold backup rotation pool. I also want to get off NFS and go iSCSI but I need a cluster aware file system if I want to do VMs as I want to do a multi host setup. I want to look at Proxmox, it may even be able to handle that stuff on it's own. What I'd actually like to do is 1 lun per VM, and the lun is presented directly to the VM at the "hardware" level as a disk. That would probably cut back on lot of overhead by not even needing to map them to the host, they'd be accessed directly. Kinda like if the VM had an iSCSI card installed. Not sure if there are free/open solutions that can do that though.

My NFS is retarded slow, I never figured out why, but I'm thinking my best bet is to just get rid of it and do block storage over a separate network. Ex: doing a real SAN setup.

I actually have a VM that keeps acting like it has a hard drive failure, it's weird. IO timeouts, and process crashes etc. Like I even get ata2 status link errors etc. Normally that means a failing hard drive... but it's a VM. I think it's because my NFS is just so damn slow. If there's too much load it just crawls.

 

[sdifox]

humm, maybe I should grab a 1u epyc 7401, then wait a few years then drop in epyc rome 64 core :awe:

 

[sdifox]

like this
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/NEW-HPE-P04...573696?hash=item23b92cc280:g:gQQAAOSwfRZcm5gd

 

[sdifox]

and that is a brand new server, not even used

 

[Red Squirrel]

That shipping though. That's why I never buy server stuff off Ebay.

I've seen worse than that though. When I was looking at UPSes it was comical. $600 to ship a $200 UPS. I can practically buy the same one new and have it shipped free.