1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,760 When I was in school, I had a couple two-terabyte drives that I would go between, and then after 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:11,360 I left school, I got a four-terabyte desktop drive that you'd have to plug it in the wall, 3 00:00:11,360 --> 00:00:17,960 which was a little annoying. And then my biggest upgrade to that point was I got an 8-bay NAS, and I filled it with 4 00:00:17,960 --> 00:00:22,240 four-terabyte drives full, which is all I could afford at the time, because four-terabyte 5 00:00:22,240 --> 00:00:28,080 drives were really expensive back in the day, and all of it is full. 6 00:00:28,080 --> 00:00:33,840 I probably have a couple other loose 512 drives just randomly around, but nothing I used actively, 7 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:41,440 so those are all things I used actively. And I have maybe a terabyte left on my NAS, and some of the stuff that was loose on those 8 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:47,200 other drives I have backed up to my NAS, but yeah, that's where I'm at with that. 9 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:54,240 Most of what is stored is footage that I shot in school, footage I shot after school, footage 10 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:59,080 I've shot here that I just wanted to keep for myself. 11 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:03,840 It's like all video. And I think as soon as we actually switch to the red cameras, I have a bunch of stuff 12 00:01:03,840 --> 00:01:08,000 that I just like, when we went to Banff, I shot a bunch of just like scenery stuff that 13 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:14,000 I took home as well just for fun, and all those files are gigantic, and I've never consolidated 14 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:22,280 them. I just have every raw clip I've ever shot. So I've kept everything deleted nothing when it comes to footage I've shot, and then of 15 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:26,760 course there's a lot of photos from like trips and stuff that I've done for this job, just 16 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:32,200 traveling for fun. Every photo I've ever taken in my life is on that NAS. 17 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:38,840 So I have my NAS set up in a RAID 5 with a 2 drive parody, but I kind of wish I did it 18 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:42,560 with a 1 drive parody because I would get an extra 4 terabytes out of it, and that might 19 00:01:42,560 --> 00:01:46,080 last like just a little bit longer because I'm really on edge when it comes to data right 20 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:54,480 now. I have no, I mean like working with just external drives has always kind of sucked, and I knew 21 00:01:54,480 --> 00:01:58,360 it was a bad solution, but I also couldn't afford anything better, and NASs were like 22 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,920 kind of foreign to me at the time that I was doing that. 23 00:02:01,920 --> 00:02:07,560 I wish my file structures were better. I think I wish my, immediately when I set up my NAS, and I told myself I was going to 24 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:12,800 do this, set up a like logical file structure that you can carry on through years, and it 25 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:21,880 will scale well. I didn't do that, and now I am probably five years into owning this NAS, and it's just 26 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:26,800 a mess. Like I'll go through my folders, I'm like, I kind of sort of have a system of like, I'll 27 00:02:26,800 --> 00:02:33,080 date things, but then I don't know what's in them, so or like I'll label it, like I'll 28 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:36,320 shoot, I'll do a photo shoot with a person, and I'm like, I'll put their name there. 29 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:42,000 But it doesn't tell me what the shoot was, why I did it, like, I have no discernible 30 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:45,560 information in the file structure, which makes it hard, because if I go through everything, 31 00:02:45,560 --> 00:02:47,720 I'm like, what am I going to find? It's like kind of like a lottery. 32 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:56,240 I am ashamed to admit this, but I have not backed up a single piece of data to another 33 00:02:56,240 --> 00:03:02,120 place. I mean, technically, all the loose drives that I have, I have backed up to my NAS, but my 34 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,800 NAS is also a single point of failure. 35 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:13,680 And it's also a lot, like four terabytes times eight in RAID 5, two drive, what's, yeah, 36 00:03:13,680 --> 00:03:20,040 I have 24 terabytes, 24 terabytes that I have not backed up because it's expensive to backup 37 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:25,200 media. I don't have the money to just spend on another 24 terabytes of backup when I could use that 38 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:28,440 24 terabytes of backup that I could just put more data on. 39 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:33,720 I understand that logically, I should have a backup, but who can afford that? 40 00:03:33,800 --> 00:03:38,000 And cloud storage is also expensive. I don't want to be paying monthly for 24 terabytes. 41 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:42,800 Also downloading it and like access is a kind of an issue you'd have to solve. 42 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:44,720 So no, no backups. 43 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:59,760 I thought about this for a really long time, and I'll talk about it in the video. I'm sure I have if you've watched that video, but I wrestled with myself. 44 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:05,160 Do I take what's on my 24 terabyte NAS with eight bays? 45 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:12,560 Do I rip it all off to something like the server? Because Lyon said I could just do that temporarily and then fill that eight bay with brand new 46 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:17,120 drives and then remove the data back onto the new bay. 47 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:23,320 Well, considering how much time, effort that that whole process would take, I instead, 48 00:04:23,320 --> 00:04:30,320 I'm buying a new five bay NAS and filling it with 16 terabyte drives, which I admit 49 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:35,240 is only going to delay my problem that I currently have because I will still have no backup. 50 00:04:35,240 --> 00:04:39,720 And I will also eventually run out of space, but it is more space. 51 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:47,080 It is about 80 terabytes. And I'm probably going to run it in a rate five again with a one drive parody even though, 52 00:04:47,080 --> 00:04:51,560 because it's only a five bay, not an eight bay. So like there's less drives to fail, you know? 53 00:04:51,560 --> 00:04:57,240 But I'm hoping that this will last me at least another five years. 54 00:04:57,240 --> 00:05:01,200 But at the rate that I've been using data and eating up the NAS, I've honestly stopped 55 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:04,320 shooting as many photos because I'm like, I literally have nowhere to put these. 56 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:12,240 Like up my, my Angel Bird two terabyte portable drive that I forgot to mention in all of this 57 00:05:12,240 --> 00:05:17,760 that I used to just work off of. Like whenever I'm doing an active photo shoot that I'm editing, I'll work off that drive. 58 00:05:17,760 --> 00:05:25,080 It's full. And I have nowhere to put the data because my NAS is basically full. 59 00:05:25,080 --> 00:05:29,120 Because like I have one terabyte on my NAS, two terabytes on this drive, so I can't put 60 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:32,480 the whole drive on my NAS if I wanted to. 61 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:37,680 What would you do if you lost everything tomorrow? 62 00:05:37,680 --> 00:05:46,040 I'd probably cry because it is nearly 10 years of work and memories and things that 63 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,080 I've done that I like have never even seen, like stuff I've done, I've never even posted 64 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:55,240 like photos that I love that no one, but me and my, maybe my family have seen. 65 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:59,880 So that stuff is irreplaceable, which is why I understand the importance of a backup. 66 00:05:59,880 --> 00:06:05,200 But it's like, I have so much data that is just accumulating. 67 00:06:05,200 --> 00:06:08,360 I'm perpetuating this problem by getting a new NAS and having no backup. 68 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:12,600 But I also need the data because I'm continually making more data. 69 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:18,400 I probably could delete some stuff. Like I probably don't need the raw footage of everything I've ever shot, ever. 70 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:23,800 But that also takes a lot of effort and I need to sit down for like maybe days and go through 71 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,360 it all. That's nine years of stuff. 72 00:06:27,360 --> 00:06:30,440 Who has time for that? 73 00:06:30,440 --> 00:06:44,640 Okay, so my main drive I believe is two four terabyte drives or no, sorry, two two terabyte 74 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:48,880 NVMe drives in RAID zero. 75 00:06:48,880 --> 00:06:54,320 Then I have a two terabyte NVMe cash drive. 76 00:06:54,320 --> 00:07:07,720 Then I have, am I counting USB drives like, okay, I got a 16 Gigabyte USB drive. 77 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:13,320 I got a four terabyte game drive and then I got another four terabyte game drive. 78 00:07:13,320 --> 00:07:19,420 And then I got a one terabyte archive of sorts. 79 00:07:19,420 --> 00:07:25,040 It's an older SSD. I got another four terabyte backup drive. 80 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:30,560 I got a 32 gig USB stick. 81 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:35,400 I got a four terabyte again SSD. 82 00:07:35,400 --> 00:07:39,080 I got another two terabyte SSD. 83 00:07:39,080 --> 00:07:42,640 Another, this is becoming worker. 84 00:07:42,640 --> 00:07:51,160 A 64 gig USB drive again, a two terabyte mobile, that's the, oh yeah, that's my, like 85 00:07:51,160 --> 00:07:58,280 the only R disk drive I have, a two terabyte like Western digital hard drive. 86 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:07,600 Another two terabyte NVMe and another two terabyte SSD. 87 00:08:07,600 --> 00:08:15,000 And I believe that on my network, because on top of the two drives that I have idle 88 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:22,680 in that computer, because I don't have the PCI lanes for, because I'm an idiot, and 89 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:31,320 I sold my tread ripper, I have, what is it, like two, two 40 drives. 90 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:35,560 They're both SSDs still, but yeah, two, two hundred and forty gig. 91 00:08:35,560 --> 00:08:42,040 It's like from the build I had from back when I think I started talking with Linus. 92 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:48,040 So you're talking about 20, 14, 20, they're old Seagate drives. 93 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:54,160 So you mentioned a few things as you were listing all of those off. What's like the primary usage of all this storage? 94 00:08:54,160 --> 00:09:05,480 I do not, so I keep my old like graphic design files, old pictures, old video game assets 95 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:17,120 that I made, just like I've been continuously holding onto that for, I don't know, the better 96 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:28,000 part of now it's maybe 14 years, and just my video game collection is all downloaded 97 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:35,960 and accessible on two of those drives because four terabytes is not enough these days, I 98 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:44,000 guess, for all the free games that Epic just dumps on you, plus like whatever old stuff 99 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:47,400 I used to buy. Are you one of those guys who goes and downloads every free game? 100 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:53,400 Oh, yeah. I try, I try to, I've been trying to try most of them recently. 101 00:09:53,400 --> 00:10:00,880 Uh, yeah, other than that, I have like, it's not that big. 102 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:05,800 I mean, we have access to a lot more music with streaming these days, but I had like 103 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:11,600 a hundred and twenty gig, I think, music library back in the day. 104 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:18,720 The reason I have so many SSDs to begin with is I had a plan for a just mass storage server 105 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:29,520 and it was supposed to be kind of mostly like, I don't know, 14 TB, 12 TB hard disk drives 106 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:39,480 and these SSDs, and reasons I sort of gave up on that sort of goal, it's just I didn't 107 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:43,720 need it, I never needed it. 108 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:50,480 So what I do anything different, I wouldn't have bought those drives. 109 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:53,600 SSDs weren't cheap back then. 110 00:10:53,600 --> 00:11:01,800 They're like, they're all basically eight sixties and some crucial drives. 111 00:11:01,800 --> 00:11:06,160 So and the NVMe drives are all like nine seventies and nine sixties. 112 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:14,440 You can, if you want to look back and see how much those used to cost, yeah. 113 00:11:14,440 --> 00:11:18,960 Do you have any backups? 114 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:24,960 The backups would be on site and they would be basically just identical drives not being 115 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:35,840 used as much. So as I said, I have like a, one of those drives is just a 14 TB 860 SSD that serves 116 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,400 as the backup for the rate configuration. 117 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:47,200 That backup is not well set up. It's just backing up basic files. 118 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:52,960 I haven't had problems, maybe it's, I don't know, maybe it's going to fail at some point. 119 00:11:52,960 --> 00:12:05,640 I don't know. My important files are not on my Windows setup and I have, given that I have many SSDs and 120 00:12:05,640 --> 00:12:16,440 that I have an abundance of SSD storage, I have copies of those archival materials 121 00:12:16,440 --> 00:12:19,880 on multiple drives right now. 122 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:26,600 That being said, if one of them were to get shorted by say a rogue PSU, I don't have a 123 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:34,800 Gigabyte PSU, but yeah, it would kill all my data, which is great. 124 00:12:34,960 --> 00:12:39,040 Speaking of that, what would you do if you lost everything tomorrow? 125 00:12:39,040 --> 00:12:46,240 Oh, it'd probably be fine. I like it's, it doesn't matter, almost lost most of it actually. 126 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:52,600 I can't remember, but I think no, I didn't have a raid failure. 127 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:58,480 Something happened with one of my drives that, so I had everything organized as someone 128 00:12:58,480 --> 00:13:04,960 would in, well, you know, a decent folder structure, you have your portfolio there, 129 00:13:04,960 --> 00:13:13,360 you have your music there, and I, yeah, I don't remember what happened, but basically 130 00:13:13,360 --> 00:13:18,320 I've had to recover the files and in recovering the files, I lost the folder structure. 131 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:26,800 So right now it's just a mess of files. Well more or less, I did like some sorting, but it's still like not as anywhere as granular 132 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:33,760 as it used to be. I have a lot of unnamed PSDs from like my texturing slash doing websites days that 133 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:38,760 are just scattered now, at least I still have thumbnails, so I can sort of figure out what 134 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:46,120 they are. But also, why do I hold on to this, like it's not like anyone cares about the websites 135 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:53,600 I used to do, like it's just, like, it's like holding on to physical good, it's not like 136 00:13:53,600 --> 00:14:01,400 it doesn't do anything for me, it's my legacy, but then I pay for a website, like, what the 137 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:08,960 f***, like, it doesn't go on there. I'm a data hoarder, it's Jamie, I'm doing my interview, goodbye. 138 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:15,680 Okay, so there's an 8TB drive that's about, I don't know, like a third, maybe two thirds 139 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:26,080 full, why would I want to do that? Anyway, so I got an 8TB drive, I think there's about two or three terabytes on it right now. 140 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:32,360 Then I've got a 3TB drive, that's about a quarter of the way, maybe half of the way full, 141 00:14:32,360 --> 00:14:37,960 it used to be all the way full, then I moved it over to the 8TB drive, mostly it's just 142 00:14:37,960 --> 00:14:41,320 music in my downloads folder on that one now. 143 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:46,720 And then the other drives, every other drive in that computer has games on it. 144 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:52,400 Because I used to have a data cap, so my data cap was like 500GB a month, and if you went 145 00:14:52,400 --> 00:14:58,880 over that, it was like $10 a GB or something like that. 146 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:02,720 And so if I went over, it was like the end of the world. 147 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:06,320 So I used to download games and then never delete them. 148 00:15:06,320 --> 00:15:10,220 But one of those drives in there is like 15 years old. 149 00:15:10,220 --> 00:15:13,800 So if it ever dies, I don't know what I would do. 150 00:15:13,800 --> 00:15:18,160 And then that 3TB drive is one of those western digital caviar greens, they don't even make 151 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:27,560 the caviar green anymore. Well, I got those two NVMe drives in it, one is a 500GB and then the other one is like 152 00:15:27,560 --> 00:15:31,640 a 1TB I think. That has games on it, the 1TB has games on it. 153 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,880 Yeah, the only thing about the NVMe drives is that if I have the one in the bottom in 154 00:15:35,880 --> 00:15:43,320 there, it turns it from a x16 slot, from my graphics card into a x8 slot and it disables 155 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:47,640 all the rest of the SATA slots on it, because I don't have enough PCI Express Lens, it's 156 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:51,880 a B450 chipset. So what do you use all of these drives for? 157 00:15:51,880 --> 00:16:01,360 Game storage mostly, and then some 100% legal music in movies. 158 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:07,080 You know what? It's sort of like A-Primes computer, it's just a collection of drives I've had over 159 00:16:07,080 --> 00:16:11,680 the years. There used to be more drives in it, but one of them died. 160 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:16,560 So I bought the Western Digital Blue in a pair at the same time. 161 00:16:16,560 --> 00:16:23,120 So it was like when 1TB drives were just becoming affordable, and I bought them together, and 162 00:16:23,120 --> 00:16:31,120 they used to be like RAID 1 maybe together, but one of them died and I just kept on with 163 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:35,720 the other one, and it's been going strong for like, like I said, almost 15 years now, 164 00:16:35,720 --> 00:16:40,400 or maybe a little less than that. Do you have any backups at all? 165 00:16:40,400 --> 00:16:44,280 Oh no. How would I do that? 166 00:16:44,280 --> 00:16:51,560 It's just games. If I lost the games, now I don't have a data cap, and I have gigabit internet, I would 167 00:16:51,560 --> 00:16:55,000 just download them again. What would you do if you lost everything tomorrow? 168 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:01,360 I don't know, start all over again. Probably wouldn't do anything better than that. 169 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:08,120 Maybe I should back things up. If I was smart, I'd probably build a NAS or something like that, and put it in my hall 170 00:17:08,120 --> 00:17:14,600 closet. Man, I have like a one bedroom apartment. If I start filling it up full of hard drives, it's just going to sound like a data center 171 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:23,640 in there, right? So, no problem. 172 00:17:23,640 --> 00:17:27,120 Start backing things up to DVDs or something like that. Remember that? 173 00:17:27,120 --> 00:17:27,440 DVD backups?