WEBVTT 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 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, 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 00:00:17.960 --> 00:00:22.240 four-terabyte drives full, which is all I could afford at the time, because four-terabyte 00:00:22.240 --> 00:00:28.080 drives were really expensive back in the day, and all of it is full. 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, 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 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. 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 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:59.080 I've shot here that I just wanted to keep for myself. 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 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 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 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 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 00:01:26.760 --> 00:01:32.200 traveling for fun. Every photo I've ever taken in my life is on that NAS. 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 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 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 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 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 00:01:58.360 --> 00:02:01.920 kind of foreign to me at the time that I was doing that. 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 00:02:42.040 --> 00:02:45.560 information in the file structure, which makes it hard, because if I go through everything, 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. 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 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 00:03:02.120 --> 00:03:04.800 NAS is also a single point of failure. 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, 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 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 00:03:25.200 --> 00:03:28.440 24 terabytes of backup that I could just put more data on. 00:03:28.440 --> 00:03:33.720 I understand that logically, I should have a backup, but who can afford that? 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. 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. 00:03:42.800 --> 00:03:44.720 So no, no backups. 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. 00:03:59.760 --> 00:04:05.160 Do I take what's on my 24 terabyte NAS with eight bays? 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 00:04:12.560 --> 00:04:17.120 drives and then remove the data back onto the new bay. 00:04:17.120 --> 00:04:23.320 Well, considering how much time, effort that that whole process would take, I instead, 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 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. 00:04:35.240 --> 00:04:39.720 And I will also eventually run out of space, but it is more space. 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, 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? 00:04:51.560 --> 00:04:57.240 But I'm hoping that this will last me at least another five years. 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 00:05:01.200 --> 00:05:04.320 shooting as many photos because I'm like, I literally have nowhere to put these. 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 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. 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. 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 00:05:29.120 --> 00:05:32.480 the whole drive on my NAS if I wanted to. 00:05:32.480 --> 00:05:37.680 What would you do if you lost everything tomorrow? 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 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 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. 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:59.880 So that stuff is irreplaceable, which is why I understand the importance of a backup. 00:05:59.880 --> 00:06:05.200 But it's like, I have so much data that is just accumulating. 00:06:05.200 --> 00:06:08.360 I'm perpetuating this problem by getting a new NAS and having no backup. 00:06:08.360 --> 00:06:12.600 But I also need the data because I'm continually making more data. 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. 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 00:06:23.800 --> 00:06:27.360 it all. That's nine years of stuff. 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:30.440 Who has time for that? 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 00:06:44.640 --> 00:06:48.880 NVMe drives in RAID zero. 00:06:48.880 --> 00:06:54.320 Then I have a two terabyte NVMe cash drive. 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. 00:07:07.720 --> 00:07:13.320 I got a four terabyte game drive and then I got another four terabyte game drive. 00:07:13.320 --> 00:07:19.420 And then I got a one terabyte archive of sorts. 00:07:19.420 --> 00:07:25.040 It's an older SSD. I got another four terabyte backup drive. 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:30.560 I got a 32 gig USB stick. 00:07:30.560 --> 00:07:35.400 I got a four terabyte again SSD. 00:07:35.400 --> 00:07:39.080 I got another two terabyte SSD. 00:07:39.080 --> 00:07:42.640 Another, this is becoming worker. 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 00:07:51.160 --> 00:07:58.280 the only R disk drive I have, a two terabyte like Western digital hard drive. 00:07:58.280 --> 00:08:07.600 Another two terabyte NVMe and another two terabyte SSD. 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 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 00:08:22.680 --> 00:08:31.320 I sold my tread ripper, I have, what is it, like two, two 40 drives. 00:08:31.320 --> 00:08:35.560 They're both SSDs still, but yeah, two, two hundred and forty gig. 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. 00:08:42.040 --> 00:08:48.040 So you're talking about 20, 14, 20, they're old Seagate drives. 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? 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 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 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 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:35.960 and accessible on two of those drives because four terabytes is not enough these days, I 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 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? 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. 00:09:53.400 --> 00:10:00.880 Uh, yeah, other than that, I have like, it's not that big. 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 00:10:05.800 --> 00:10:11.600 a hundred and twenty gig, I think, music library back in the day. 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 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 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 00:10:39.480 --> 00:10:43.720 need it, I never needed it. 00:10:43.720 --> 00:10:50.480 So what I do anything different, I wouldn't have bought those drives. 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:53.600 SSDs weren't cheap back then. 00:10:53.600 --> 00:11:01.800 They're like, they're all basically eight sixties and some crucial drives. 00:11:01.800 --> 00:11:06.160 So and the NVMe drives are all like nine seventies and nine sixties. 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. 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:18.960 Do you have any backups? 00:11:18.960 --> 00:11:24.960 The backups would be on site and they would be basically just identical drives not being 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 00:11:35.840 --> 00:11:39.400 as the backup for the rate configuration. 00:11:39.400 --> 00:11:47.200 That backup is not well set up. It's just backing up basic files. 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. 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 00:12:05.640 --> 00:12:16.440 that I have an abundance of SSD storage, I have copies of those archival materials 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:19.880 on multiple drives right now. 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 00:12:26.600 --> 00:12:34.800 Gigabyte PSU, but yeah, it would kill all my data, which is great. 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:39.040 Speaking of that, what would you do if you lost everything tomorrow? 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. 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:52.600 I can't remember, but I think no, I didn't have a raid failure. 00:12:52.600 --> 00:12:58.480 Something happened with one of my drives that, so I had everything organized as someone 00:12:58.480 --> 00:13:04.960 would in, well, you know, a decent folder structure, you have your portfolio there, 00:13:04.960 --> 00:13:13.360 you have your music there, and I, yeah, I don't remember what happened, but basically 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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 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. 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, 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 00:14:37.960 --> 00:14:41.320 music in my downloads folder on that one now. 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:46.720 And then the other drives, every other drive in that computer has games on it. 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 00:14:52.400 --> 00:14:58.880 over that, it was like $10 a GB or something like that. 00:14:58.880 --> 00:15:02.720 And so if I went over, it was like the end of the world. 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:06.320 So I used to download games and then never delete them. 00:15:06.320 --> 00:15:10.220 But one of those drives in there is like 15 years old. 00:15:10.220 --> 00:15:13.800 So if it ever dies, I don't know what I would do. 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 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 00:15:27.560 --> 00:15:31.640 a 1TB I think. That has games on it, the 1TB has games on it. 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 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 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 00:15:47.640 --> 00:15:51.880 a B450 chipset. So what do you use all of these drives for? 00:15:51.880 --> 00:16:01.360 Game storage mostly, and then some 100% legal music in movies. 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 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:11.680 the years. There used to be more drives in it, but one of them died. 00:16:11.680 --> 00:16:16.560 So I bought the Western Digital Blue in a pair at the same time. 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 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 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, 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:40.400 or maybe a little less than that. Do you have any backups at all? 00:16:40.400 --> 00:16:44.280 Oh no. How would I do that? 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 00:16:51.560 --> 00:16:55.000 just download them again. What would you do if you lost everything tomorrow? 00:16:55.000 --> 00:17:01.360 I don't know, start all over again. Probably wouldn't do anything better than that. 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 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 00:17:14.600 --> 00:17:23.640 in there, right? So, no problem. 00:17:23.640 --> 00:17:27.120 Start backing things up to DVDs or something like that. Remember that? 00:17:27.120 --> 00:17:27.440 DVD backups?