there is no way in [ __ ] hell you have
700 000 cds when it comes to storage
everyone knows the rule of three two one that's three copies of your data across
two different media types with at least one of them kept off site but did the
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i have two of the two terabyte 2.5 drive
one full terabyte 2.5 drive one 3.5
external drive for 5 terabyte you said
so many numbers because you were saying the size of the drive this is impossible
to like you have five five terabyte drives or
six to five two five so you have ten i had
an ass we got more it was like a two bay one now i just like upgraded to like a
four by one at another 12 terabyte in there so that's like 48 terabytes i'm
but i have like one drive that's in parity so that nas
is for 12 terabyte drives right yeah okay if 36e is usable it was mainly for
all the photo i took and all the client project or my
personal project and screw project but they're not full right now because i
just recently upgraded to the four-way drive because i just recently upgraded
it so like the current setup is the setup i want
but for those external drives i would really prefer
just to have like them all in one so andy you have a bunch of external drives
before right he's a mac user explains that that's a fun way to say never mind
so you're a mac user used to have a bunch of external drives like in a dock
right i'm assuming you're using like a toaster so you've sort of been just progressing over the years of you've got
this two bay and then you've got another awfulness and then he finally bought a
four bay and then he gets a four bay and now he's moving everything into it okay
no not already it's like what's a backup like i like
those hard drive like external hard drives uh i usually don't plug them in
so they're kind of like uh called code backup it's not a cold backup they bit
rod andy you gotta keep them going all the time
and you have to check the data that's on them i will cry and cry hard your backup
strategy is that you will cry if you lose it he's mean to future andy
honestly this doesn't look like mac andy this is Windows
you have a you're participating
yes you are wow that is a very full five terabyte now that's hoarding you fill up
the whole thing until you have no swap space left alright it implodes a cloud
is your nas right yes okay so you got 31 terabytes usable it's actually pretty
cool oh my god all of these external drives is there photo oh yeah there is
photos oh wait i gotta see this wait a hub you say oh my god
oh it is a toaster yeah there's okay okay is that a little nice cable what's
that it's a TP-Link is that 2.5 g
whoa look at you does the nas actually have 2.5 gig
wow okay so you've got two five terabyte drives that are entirely separate now
you've got oh my god are these NVMe ssds
what the hell these look like inventory items to me so they're all just hooked
up to your Thunderbolt what is this handy
so this is like the type of hoarder who's got like garbage all over
genuinely every room oh yeah and i prefer the type of hoarder takes all
their garbage and just puts it in one big golf pile in the middle of their
living room yeah andy you have a problem yeah this is a
problem you need to consolidate this he's working on it okay okay okay is the
plan to take everything put on the nest yes okay
are you gonna get rid of the other things no then he'll have more space to
put stuff back on think of your kids i think this is he
he's like a six yeah yeah i don't know what the scale is
i have just about 23 terabytes on the main nas and then a couple other
terabytes here and there and other drives we're talking it's not super full
because i mostly use it for game capture while i'm streaming
but uh it's probably like five or six terabytes at this point so i got this
nas as part of my Intel upgrade setup uh it was a old pc that i kind of
transplanted into it i've actually switched a little bit of what would seen
in the video it's now like a Windows system it's not uh unraid
gotta love running your storage on Windows i
have some backup stuff so if it's something that i'm really worried about
losing or i don't i really don't want to replay i'll put it to cloud storage i
pay for the extra storage on google i do that too you mean you do things properly
i would replay all the games baby you know who needs to deal with your backlog
when you can replay the games you've already played it sounds like he's using
this as like a like a memory bank for all the games
that he's played so yeah that would be kind of sad to lose that especially as it's you know
high quality recordings of old vintage games that yeah nobody's probably ever
played before like i don't know
castlevania it could be some of mario
another thing that i would really change is that it's actually a water-cooled
system oh god the nas is water cooled yeah
water and and data usually don't mix too well it's an ass it doesn't need to be
all it really does is end bank on the GPU and so it's kind of cool it sounds
like his nas is also like his streaming pc i think it's in his encoding or
something like that yeah it sounds like it's doing the streaming and the recording which is pretty cool actually
double duty is a good idea yeah wow oh yeah buddy is this taren's desk
jesus this is like this is a roasting viewers setups video now we've got a
nintendo 64.
sorry this
is where the magic happens there's a lot of game com oh there we go it is under
the desk you're right wow look at all those it's all my hard drives
i think under my recommendation he bought a proper hba which is cool rather
than just plugging into like SATA ports that's a good recommendation hold on
this game the attention is holding up the reservoir look at the tube this is
this is so beautifully jank the funny thing is it doesn't look like any water
is moving in here the idea is i can play games
while streaming while recording the footage so i can do
just 17 birds with
1.3 stones pretty controlled chaos i would say this
is an extremely reasonable amount of chaos um but the nice thing is he's done
the garbage pile in the living room yeah but it's not like a garbage pile like
this is the type of hoarding where you just have too many knick-knacks and
you've got all your shelves and they just got crap all over them and you're
like no i can't throw out this vintage mrs buttersworth i might like to look at
it in five years not that i'm gonna sell it ah and
un-watercool it and if you're not gonna un-watercool it
don't have it sitting like on a game
like kinking the tube it's i like it i'm going to give you a seven david this is
this is pleasant yeah that's enjoyable it's at least contained in terms of
storage i have 20 uh hard drives roughly about two
terabytes each just 20 hard drives holy
sh and then there's three more that are
like varying sizes of five four and
eight terabytes they're all populated because they're my backups
collectively it's about 82.5
ish terabytes and then on top of that i have
uh hundreds of tapes oh and then i have a five bay nas
populated with eight terabyte drives
all together it's around 127 ish terabytes
so uh i'm i'm kind of old
back in the day i shot everything on tape and
you know it made more sense because data was or hard drives were more expensive
so it made sense just to shoot on the tape and have it on the tape uh
degradation wasn't that bad especially with you know digital video before
working here i worked uh doing wedding videos for about 10 years and uh
that's all the videos i've ever
recorded hundreds of terabytes of someone else's wedding
no we used to also keep previous clients footage because sometimes they'd be like
oh hey we didn't actually want to pay for a cut of this but you know we've
decided and do you still have it we would like to pay you more money and
sometimes it can be a godsend 120 70's terabytes is an unnecessary quantity of
terabytes is it unnecessary yeah because
he's not storing Linux isos right right
he's storing other people's weddings
not to throw shade at drobo but i kind of wish i didn't go with the
drobo droplets drobo i was going to ask you that
does anybody know what drobo is dropbox okay cool uh it was Thunderbolt
Thunderbolt 2 and mac specific things yeah oh he didn't
even mention i forgot he's a mac guy i i went with drobo the drobo setup because
i had a whole bunch of random discs not like equal size and i wanted
redundancy and that just was not an option with the standard knife is it
just in a pile in the middle of his living room like i hope i hope
not bags so off-site no that was something i
wanted to look into but now that i've moved out of the wedding industry it
just isn't really an issue i think it's only ever come up
once that i needed to get footage again for uh past couple
see see i told you it does happen right one time how many weddings did this guy
shoot if he's got hundreds of tapes i mean he probably got so much dopamine
saving the day that he's never gonna delete any of this
dick but tldr he should oh yeah burn it
put it in your yard i mean it's not that big of a deal now even if this is not a
big deal if you lost it i'd be sad
yeah i'd be more upset if i lost the videotapes to be honest uh which is part
of the reason why i'm working on backing everything up i actually bought a vcr
too to back up all of my old vhs tapes from way back in the day
it's a damn good vcr too Dan's dad helped me fix it so i shouldn't say help
me fix it he fixed it for me it's your dad like a vcr repairman yeah
he ran a shop for years and years he was one of the first colors tv engineers
yeah fixing them that was a liberal estimate actually uh 127.
like like i mentioned it it could be close to like half a petabyte
half a petabyte what if if i really like want to convert everything which i
haven't yet because i also have cds too i just didn't want to bring up you know
my pirating kind of prowess how much does a cd hold
735 mega bibles 100 terabytes i want to
see his plastic bags we're talking
you know half a million gigabytes you said how many
700 30 megs you're talking
700 000 cds there is no way
in hell you have 700 000 cds to make up
okay okay sorry sorry let me deduct let me deduct a little bit here let's start
with like hundred and eighty that's a lot of plus
terabytes times a thousand oh my god
still a lot you need a warehouse to fill
it's cds mark yourself
even if i have more data somehow i don't know if i can compete with half
a petabyte of cds but
if i have more data i think mark still wins because it's
just a pure chaos look at all these
200 no that said Gigabyte okay i'm not impressed anymore
all right it's just called a t7 old hard drive
it's a five terabyte a four terabyte of six terabyte i'm sure
everybody that must that's the drobo oh my god wow he does
have like 20 hard drives i like that he like 3d printed holders for them or did
you buy those i don't know that's an ass yeah that's probably the
drobo maybe i don't know i'm just so
oh that's not even that many it's like three bins and they're like flat bins
it's nice i think mark was misleading us a little bit
i want to see the 500 plastic bags full of loose dvds
on my main nas i have 64 terabytes of storage and i'm using just shy of 40
terabytes of it as a general rule i store absolutely nothing on the
individual computers in the house because that's how you lose data oh
absolutely right now i have pretty much no SSD acceleration it's basically all
mechanical that can be okay like my unraid setup is is purely just hard
drives there is cash drives but i just use them for like storing vms it's kind
of a weird perspective because he could like basically just have whatever he
wants and instead he chose not only hard
drives but they're like the seagate archive ones so they're shingle drives
yeah not great i also had some regrets before because i didn't have a fast
enough processor to handle transcoding movies while also putting in closed
captions which is apparently like single thread limited so i got my hands after i
built it on a 9990xe massive shout out puget systems that's a
really unique CPU okay my backup story is a little complicated
i do have a backup i don't know exactly where it is and it's super out of date
it's really bad i'm not practicing what i preach when it comes to my personal
data but the issue is i was going to have Jake help me back it up to the
office so this is all your fault
isn't that part of this project good yeah we're building a target so i will
oh awesome so that's i'm solving it by
green lighting this video if i lost everything tomorrow i first
i'd cry i actually would and that's
yeah you know what oh my god my backup stuff so i even took home our
old i o say fireproof nas but then i ran into some issue with the
drives that i was putting it into because really it's the photos yes it's
all about the family photos and a ton of it i have in google drive or in google
photos right he uses plex to sync his
phone's photos back to his nas and like that's how he stores them so
has he not heard of like sync tracer or like sync thing or one of those like
google photos or dropbox or like but
it's like sporadic right like it's not organized
the one place i have definitely absolutely everything is my nas and so i
wanted to put everything on the fireproof nas but then i ran into some issue with that too and i've just been
it's like the mechanic with a crappy car you know i just
sometimes i don't feel motivated to show my own tech stuff he would cry yeah i
mean yeah most people would unless it's you know you don't want to lose hundreds
of weddings
oh yeah it's actually like pretty i want this case damn it he's the one that has
it what is the case this is like a norco 24 bay case and i've been trying to find
one you just can't that's nice they have awful back planes it's not that nice
actually but it's just it's like a cheap way to
to do it but yeah i mean it's a pretty sweet setup so i guess this answers the
question of how much storage you have because we're looking at it looks like you've got two no that's worked let's
use one okay so it looks like you've got about 84
terabytes use something like that usable so that's pretty impressive i think oh
yeah array of 11 devices
my what so does your case allow for 11
or like what are you doing now this is a 12 it's a 12
okay like i haven't touched the drives in my nest okay so Jake is the first one
to have failures on camera setting up but it's not a failure it's like it's
not even in the array it's not even been detected so it'd be 104 terabytes right
and then plus the other eight terabytes i'm just trying to beat mark missing so that'd be
112 terabytes that's pretty good in my nas that's pretty good and your
utilization is like at acceptable levels
for a hoarder i would say i'm using like 50 terabytes
what do you use your maintenance for well
besides all the Linux cds there's a few Linux iso's yeah i back up all the other
systems in my house which is only there's only two systems but yeah
because i have so much storage i can just it's just rolling back up it's like
because i have like 60 days worth of backup it's pretty good
that's pretty good i'm like Linus i i i'm ethical about my Linux isos i pay
for the subscription Linux at isos you pay for ubuntu when for ubuntu i pay for
paper mint a lot of it honestly is kind of
redundant data that i don't need what is what boarding is all about i will admit
i have far too much data and far too much storage than i should have
you know yeah i back up to my home nas and i also back up to backblaze
backwards it cost me like 20 or 30 bucks a month
but um i know that it's like safe there and it's also at home and it's also on
the origin so it's in like three different places it's in like montreal
like kentucky and vancouver so you've gone one step further between two
on-site one-off site you've also gone like two off-site but in different
countries yeah that's uh that's pretty critical looks like you've got some
unified equipment there runs older unified very older
it's a brand new that's the 2.5 gig switch at the top oh okay yeah that's
good one and then you've got that nice little rack mount cash and that looks nice too
what kind of GPU you got in there it's a 1660 ti that's for Linux iso encoding i
got to score you the problem is that you're doing things properly and you have business related like
critical infrastructure as well it's a very small percentage of what's on there
but i don't know six out of ten six seven out of ten
six six out of seven what did we score mark seven really yeah
i think mark wins i think mark wins you're a close close goddamn sucker
but the problem is that you've you've done a reasonable setup here
instead of playing games you run game servers right
yeah mark is definitely chaotic and that's what gives him the edge as you
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