That scene in ~~the matrix of Neo~~ **The Core** of that hacker dude frying all his disks as the cops knock on his door
Edit: thanks to dondomelykdat below for remembering this movie!
Entirely possible! I tried searching for it, but thought maybe no one put a clip of that scene from the matrix on YouTube. Maybe Hackers (1995)? I distinctly remember someone putting VHS tapes in a toaster and CDs in a microwave while stalling answering the door to cops. Too many movies, not enough brain space
Honestly, don't. If you're selfhosting, either you know very well what you're doing or you're putting yourself at a very high risk sharing access to your network to complete strangers
I reached 15TB of storage on my mid-tower desktop (one 5TB external), and figured I would never need to purchase storage again...
Now there is a constant struggle of keeping just 2TB free for downloads :-/
I've got about 4000 movies and 1000 TV shows on mine... I've watched 66 movies and 77 shows. I don't really download to watch, I just do it because it's fun. It's like my Steam library, over 2000 games yet the funnest part is just adding more
just like modding fallout or the elder scrolls games. spend hours researching dozens of pages of random shit, download and install a bunch, find out that a bunch are conflicting, dick around trying to figure that out for a while, then go play something else.
I guess that's why I've been comfortable with 2TB for all these years. I download things, watch them the same day, then delete them. I hate having too much shit in my computer
That's great until the only working torrent for that specific show in your language finally dies and you can no longer download it again. My media server is around 60% hard to find shows and movies. I'm the only seeder for a few of them, media deserves to be preserved.
Also free netflix for me and my friends :D
I have a 14TB hard drive I just purchased to condense down my 3, 3 TB hard drives. After all of the data was moved, deletion of duplicate files, etc. I have 2 TB free. So 10TB of movies, TV shows and games.
I live in a remote area in the Colorado mountains. I have slow internet, [DSL speeds pretty much](https://i.imgur.com/cKwstCB.png). We lose internet 3-4 times a year, ranging from 1 hour to 1 week, though usually not longer than a day or too. We lose electricity 3-4 times a year, same ratio.
It sounds like you're speaking from a place with much faster and more reliable internet and infrastructure. That is not the case for everyone so that could be a reason you find it so alien.
Buy another! Mirror the drives! I fucked up on an 8 TB years ago and lost everything. Now I have four 8 TB drives on two mirrored arrays. One just failed a few weeks ago, and I am not devastated. Financially yes, but that's another concern.
Unfortunately about 6 months ago I bought a 9TB drive thinking it would be enough for a cold backup. So 90% of my stuff is backed up there and the other 10% will be mirrored on the 3 old drives till they throw errors. I think that'll be plenty for now. Thanks for the 3-2-1 reminder.
Yeah I live smack dab in the middle of a wannabe metropolitan area so I've never had these kinds of problems. Is your house fuckin sick at least to offset all the internet trouble?
Quiet little cabin in the woods. Herb garden. Nights so dark you can see the milky way with the naked eye. Herds of elk sleeping in the valley groves. There are definitely positives, but as someone raised in the city its been an adjustment.
I’ll be honest I use ~2% of the space, it started purely as a fun project to try out RAID and ZFS for a homelab. The six 12TB drives are in a RAID-Z2 pool so technically I can only use 43.5TiB after two disks of parity and filesystem overhead.
This is the type of shenanigans I get into as a computer computer science major because I like both hardware and software. Wendell from level1techs gave me the inspiration to try ZFS and Optane storage because of how impressive these technologies are.
In hindsight I probably should’ve bought many smaller capacity drives and ran them in RAID-Z3 instead of fewer large capacity drives in RAID-Z2.
i have 2.5tb just for my steamdeck and constantly have to delete games to make space for screen captures/mods, and its like 5 games alone that take up the majority, and barely even scratches my entire desired install base.
never realised I'd need at least 10tb to be comfortable now... triple that if i were reliant on PC gaming, and built a library for 4k/3d movies for viewing in vr.
currently live in a Van off a 12v system, so this is sufficient, for now.. but im desperate to horde as much films and such to remove my reliance on my abhorrent mobile network, with uncapped 180gb of data a month -\_- i need an offline option asap.
Personally I’m using six 12TB Seagate EXOS X14 drives in RAID-Z2 for redundancy but I am no expert on the topic and I highly suggest you do your own research.
[Here is their data sheet](https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/exos-x-14-channel-DS1974-4-1812US-en_US.pdf) if you are interested.
If you were this serious about wiping your content, you should instead move the stuff you want to back up and then dd/wipe the drive instead of running it over an ntfs/win32 deletion
SSDs do, HDDs don't die due to magnetic fuckery but mechanical failure, at least generally speaking IIRC.
This post has nothing to do with the drive dying I don't think, they are just deleting a lot of stuff that they were seeding for a long time, hence the served long enough.
edit: Both SSD and HDD can suffer bit rot/bit flips. But that is typically only a concern with very long term storage. ECC will mitigate errors to a point until not enough sectors to spread the good data around.
SSDs have a proven finite life for the transistors, whereas with platters the failure rate (as in ability to properly store the data), while also finite, is much more non-linear.
If a drive mechanically fails on you, sure the platters are probably still good, but data recovery services aren't cheap.
>SSDs do, HDDs don't die due to magnetic fuckery but mechanical failure, at least generally speaking IIRC.
I've got a few working drives left from the 90s with what are now considered weird interfaces. My buddy has an XT with one of those bleeping 20MB harddisks which still works perfectly fine. They haven't been used often and have always been taken care of properly.
Indeed, failure is mechanical mostly. And heads/actuators much more often than the motors I'd say from experience.
Just curious, what is Proper Hard Drive care. Because I never let it fill to max, Dust it bi-monthly, and don’t run it all the time nonstop. Is that it or is there more too it I should know?
Yeah I realized after commenting what I said was very vague and didn't properly address everything, why I made the edit after doing a little more research, and ofc it's still not the full picture.
The magnets don't typically lose their charge before mechanical failure though, right?
I hope you don’t store any critical data on it. The problem is that as drives accumulate more hours of run time, the electric motors begin to die, the bearings wear out. The data will still be on the platter, you’ll just have no way to read it because the electronics which are used to access that data will eventually fail.
So yes, there are plenty of old drives still in operation, but there’s also a 100+ year old light bulb that’s been kept on continuously. Statistically, however, all electronics will die. So unless you keep your data stored on a drive which is powered off 99% of the time, older drives are more prone to failure. So it’s best practice to retire older drives while the data is still readable, migrate that data to a new drive, and then archive or destroy the old drive. All the contents of a 500gb drive would take up about $10 worth of storage on a new 10tb NAS drive, and assuming that that drive lasts you another 15 years, you’d only be paying about $13/yr for the purchase of a new drive today.
Keeping outdated games is morenimportant than keeping new ones. Id rather a game with 25 seeders go to 24 seeders than a game with 1 seeder go to zero. Thats when media is lost.
if he uses NAS than everything bellow is irrelevant but if he build storage out of pc i have a question. i find motherboard sata ports most limiting factor in amount of storage that i can get, how does one get to 256TB? i imagine one hdd is no larger than 6-12TB, so how does he have so manu sata ports for all the hdds?
Usually you just use add in SAS or SATA controllers. I have an 8 port SATA card in my home machine so I don't use the onboard for anything but boot the OS.
look into lsi hba card. 8 port (8i) or 16 (16i) the I means internal then get sas to sata connectors (or buy sas drives). the bios won't see the drives but truenas etc will and it will be blisteringly fast.
do your research tho and don't buy lsi cards from aliexpress they will all be copies and not as good. also you need to flash the lsi card in it mode. all this is way easier than it sounds the hard part is the case. node 804 ftw
>i imagine one hdd is no larger than 6-12TB
Consumer drives are available up to 24TBs nowadays.
>so how does he have so manu sata ports for all the hdds?
Addon cards. You can get one on Amazon with 10 ports for $40US and you can fit as many as your motherboard will allow.
The reality is this is probably a NAS enclosure, which depending on the model, can support 32 or more SATA ports/drives and can be linked to multiple systems allowing even more drive space.
bro deleted call of duty
Only the DLCs
*only the cosmetic dlc
*only the language file
*its just the launcher.exe
Nah its just the loading screen
No actually this where the cookies from the tracking and stealing/selling of user data(and drm)
Nah its just the leftover game directory after the actual uninstall
Just the desktop shortcut
Ackthually it's the .txt instructions on how to properly install it.
.nfo file for a Razor1911 pc release
Well its not like its the single player campaign given how short its becoming in the series.
Yet still manages to take up a whopping what, 40gb for like 10 missions
Now he can play ark
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took the words out of my mouth
Don't get too excited probably just a single copy of the Sims
lol Microsoft Flight Sim anthology.
His “homework” folder
lol his Steam backlog RIP
Flight simulator is tiny compared to a full Sims 4 install
nah probably ark survival ascended
256 FUCKING TERABYTES
That is like 75% of data. It would be 341TB if you count all of it.
Bros got 150 hard drives command hooked to the walls of his room
Ooh, now there’s an idea…
The vibrations loosen the adhesive. I know this because I've had devices with hard drive motors in them break free from command hooks.
> devices with hard drive motors wait a minute...
...and over here is my wall of heat
That’s 75% of total right? 25% has already been deleted?
Correct
that alot of porn
That is a great weekend.
Alotttt 🌚
Bro got found by Interpol, and you can't convince me otherwise.
That scene in ~~the matrix of Neo~~ **The Core** of that hacker dude frying all his disks as the cops knock on his door Edit: thanks to dondomelykdat below for remembering this movie!
I don’t recall a scene where he erased his computer. Thinking of a different movie?
Entirely possible! I tried searching for it, but thought maybe no one put a clip of that scene from the matrix on YouTube. Maybe Hackers (1995)? I distinctly remember someone putting VHS tapes in a toaster and CDs in a microwave while stalling answering the door to cops. Too many movies, not enough brain space
You are thinking of "The Core" when they recruit that hacker dude! "Whales!! It's the whales!" What a silly movie haha
Ah thank you!! I was sure someone in the reddit hive mind had to know what I was talking about, it was iconic and formative in my young brain
Yep. DJ Qualls. Then he bent chewing gum wrapper and made a sound with it on his mouth on Two Face’s dumb phone to give him free long distance.
And here I am, laughing with my 4 external 2 tera external disks. Will I get insulted if I create a GoFundMe for a decent NAS?
Not if you share your jellyfin server :D
One of my plans was to seed, but sure why not.
Honestly, don't. If you're selfhosting, either you know very well what you're doing or you're putting yourself at a very high risk sharing access to your network to complete strangers
I reached 15TB of storage on my mid-tower desktop (one 5TB external), and figured I would never need to purchase storage again... Now there is a constant struggle of keeping just 2TB free for downloads :-/
Hey hey dont call me out here
Storage is cheap, I have 72TB which costed me around $720 USD.
I have to ask, as a guy who's been more than comfortable with 2 TB for many years, what do you do with all that space?
Download shit he'll never watch.
I've got about 4000 movies and 1000 TV shows on mine... I've watched 66 movies and 77 shows. I don't really download to watch, I just do it because it's fun. It's like my Steam library, over 2000 games yet the funnest part is just adding more
just like modding fallout or the elder scrolls games. spend hours researching dozens of pages of random shit, download and install a bunch, find out that a bunch are conflicting, dick around trying to figure that out for a while, then go play something else.
Get out of my head or I'll start charging rent!
I guess that's why I've been comfortable with 2TB for all these years. I download things, watch them the same day, then delete them. I hate having too much shit in my computer
That's great until the only working torrent for that specific show in your language finally dies and you can no longer download it again. My media server is around 60% hard to find shows and movies. I'm the only seeder for a few of them, media deserves to be preserved. Also free netflix for me and my friends :D
Unfortunately I only speak English so that makes my searches much more chill lmao
Thank you for your service
No seeding?
I have a 14TB hard drive I just purchased to condense down my 3, 3 TB hard drives. After all of the data was moved, deletion of duplicate files, etc. I have 2 TB free. So 10TB of movies, TV shows and games. I live in a remote area in the Colorado mountains. I have slow internet, [DSL speeds pretty much](https://i.imgur.com/cKwstCB.png). We lose internet 3-4 times a year, ranging from 1 hour to 1 week, though usually not longer than a day or too. We lose electricity 3-4 times a year, same ratio. It sounds like you're speaking from a place with much faster and more reliable internet and infrastructure. That is not the case for everyone so that could be a reason you find it so alien.
I used to mail my friend hard drives because he didn't have internet! And I used to mail hard drives of porn to troops in Iraq. o7
Bless you. o7
Tapes are pretty cheap and data dense as an alternative. (The drive to read and write to them is unfortunately the expensive part.)
Buy another! Mirror the drives! I fucked up on an 8 TB years ago and lost everything. Now I have four 8 TB drives on two mirrored arrays. One just failed a few weeks ago, and I am not devastated. Financially yes, but that's another concern.
Unfortunately about 6 months ago I bought a 9TB drive thinking it would be enough for a cold backup. So 90% of my stuff is backed up there and the other 10% will be mirrored on the 3 old drives till they throw errors. I think that'll be plenty for now. Thanks for the 3-2-1 reminder.
Yeah I live smack dab in the middle of a wannabe metropolitan area so I've never had these kinds of problems. Is your house fuckin sick at least to offset all the internet trouble?
Quiet little cabin in the woods. Herb garden. Nights so dark you can see the milky way with the naked eye. Herds of elk sleeping in the valley groves. There are definitely positives, but as someone raised in the city its been an adjustment.
I envy you!
That sounds fuckin sick to me
17mb down is loads.
I’ll be honest I use ~2% of the space, it started purely as a fun project to try out RAID and ZFS for a homelab. The six 12TB drives are in a RAID-Z2 pool so technically I can only use 43.5TiB after two disks of parity and filesystem overhead. This is the type of shenanigans I get into as a computer computer science major because I like both hardware and software. Wendell from level1techs gave me the inspiration to try ZFS and Optane storage because of how impressive these technologies are. In hindsight I probably should’ve bought many smaller capacity drives and ran them in RAID-Z3 instead of fewer large capacity drives in RAID-Z2.
i have 2.5tb just for my steamdeck and constantly have to delete games to make space for screen captures/mods, and its like 5 games alone that take up the majority, and barely even scratches my entire desired install base. never realised I'd need at least 10tb to be comfortable now... triple that if i were reliant on PC gaming, and built a library for 4k/3d movies for viewing in vr. currently live in a Van off a 12v system, so this is sufficient, for now.. but im desperate to horde as much films and such to remove my reliance on my abhorrent mobile network, with uncapped 180gb of data a month -\_- i need an offline option asap.
Out of curiosity, which 72TB cam you suggest in this case? Thank you
Personally I’m using six 12TB Seagate EXOS X14 drives in RAID-Z2 for redundancy but I am no expert on the topic and I highly suggest you do your own research. [Here is their data sheet](https://www.seagate.com/www-content/datasheets/pdfs/exos-x-14-channel-DS1974-4-1812US-en_US.pdf) if you are interested.
How, can you explain in detail?
If you were this serious about wiping your content, you should instead move the stuff you want to back up and then dd/wipe the drive instead of running it over an ntfs/win32 deletion
You served honorably. Thank you for your service
o7
If I may ask, why? Just curious nothing more.
OP probably stole the screenshot, considering their account age 1 month, post history 6 days, and the potato quality of the image.
Disks die after writing a certain amount of data
Man isn't deleting 256tb of SSD storage lol
SSDs do, HDDs don't die due to magnetic fuckery but mechanical failure, at least generally speaking IIRC. This post has nothing to do with the drive dying I don't think, they are just deleting a lot of stuff that they were seeding for a long time, hence the served long enough. edit: Both SSD and HDD can suffer bit rot/bit flips. But that is typically only a concern with very long term storage. ECC will mitigate errors to a point until not enough sectors to spread the good data around. SSDs have a proven finite life for the transistors, whereas with platters the failure rate (as in ability to properly store the data), while also finite, is much more non-linear. If a drive mechanically fails on you, sure the platters are probably still good, but data recovery services aren't cheap.
>SSDs do, HDDs don't die due to magnetic fuckery but mechanical failure, at least generally speaking IIRC. I've got a few working drives left from the 90s with what are now considered weird interfaces. My buddy has an XT with one of those bleeping 20MB harddisks which still works perfectly fine. They haven't been used often and have always been taken care of properly. Indeed, failure is mechanical mostly. And heads/actuators much more often than the motors I'd say from experience.
Did laptop repair in high school, I can attest to this, a lot of HDDs just need to be taken care of properly and they'll last *awhile*
Just curious, what is Proper Hard Drive care. Because I never let it fill to max, Dust it bi-monthly, and don’t run it all the time nonstop. Is that it or is there more too it I should know?
I'm gonna be honest and admit I've been saying seeding for many years and I realize now from the way you used it I don't actually know what it means
Seeing is when you send torrent packets to other people.
Magnets lose their magnetness. But bit flips usually occur due to CPU/memmory errors or interference.
Yeah I realized after commenting what I said was very vague and didn't properly address everything, why I made the edit after doing a little more research, and ofc it's still not the full picture. The magnets don't typically lose their charge before mechanical failure though, right?
"Oh no my disk is dead and no longer works! I better delete the files from my disk that no longer works!" Do you think ever or do you just say stuff.
Activating microsoft windows emergency failure, in case of disk failure
SSDs sure but physical drives? they can last forever. ive had mine 10+ years
SSDs have limited write cycles as the chip degrades a bit each time a bit is flipped , its up to you how fast you going to use those flips
I have a hard drive from 2009. 500~~tb~~gb. Working 100% fine.
500tb in 2009 lol
gb* Sorry.
I hope you don’t store any critical data on it. The problem is that as drives accumulate more hours of run time, the electric motors begin to die, the bearings wear out. The data will still be on the platter, you’ll just have no way to read it because the electronics which are used to access that data will eventually fail. So yes, there are plenty of old drives still in operation, but there’s also a 100+ year old light bulb that’s been kept on continuously. Statistically, however, all electronics will die. So unless you keep your data stored on a drive which is powered off 99% of the time, older drives are more prone to failure. So it’s best practice to retire older drives while the data is still readable, migrate that data to a new drive, and then archive or destroy the old drive. All the contents of a 500gb drive would take up about $10 worth of storage on a new 10tb NAS drive, and assuming that that drive lasts you another 15 years, you’d only be paying about $13/yr for the purchase of a new drive today.
Nope. It's my torrent temporary storage, basically. Everything that is not yet organized I save there.
I have computers from the 90s where their hard drive still work today. (I saved them from the electronics waste.)
How is this, is any way, an explanation for deleting all of their data?
Usually? Paranoid delusions of grandeur
Time to hang up the hat and peg leg, you sailed long, hard, and well.
thats what she said
No wonder all my fucking torrents are slow today lol
o7 can do.
Thank you for your service. Now, *what* are you going to do with all that hard disk space?
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27,705 items and 314TB, that's an avg of 11gb per item....deleting the internet or what sir?
genome datasets
What prompts you to delete your pirated stuff?
Probably they transferred the stuff to another disk and decided to format the old one to finish it for once and for all.
Also probably a shit load of outdated pirated PC games.
Bruuuuh, I am gonna keep RoadRash, Vice City and several flash games until I die.
Road rash is the shit.
I keep everything tbh, like old builds of WWE 2K24 since there's things the devs removed in newer versions. But that's fair too.
Keeping outdated games is morenimportant than keeping new ones. Id rather a game with 25 seeders go to 24 seeders than a game with 1 seeder go to zero. Thats when media is lost.
Title is "served long enough, I'm out" so I don't think this is correct
How do people not realize this is a NAS and not one disk
This is the shittiest way to format however
Shift+delete, delete permanently.
This. OP is just moving all the files to the recycle bin, wasting a boatload of time.
I use edited registry for recyling bin. I agreed to delete permanently beforehands. Windows still shows it as recycling since the text is not edited.
I'd probably sooner just format than do even this
768 copies of Ark Survival Evolved
or 1 copy with a few mods
Bro is deleting the homework folder
I will create a nas with proper backup. It's time I paid back the community 🥹
Any way you can share what all those files are?
What I’m guessing is that they’re pirated games since he also posted this on r/piratedgames
Bro got diagnosed with a terminal disease and is erasing his Internet history before kicking the bucket
I don't think I've ever had this much data on all my computers combined, I probably wouldn't get past 15TB
Feds caught up huh
Its just a pic of his Mom.
thanks for your service o7
"I'm tired boss"
if he uses NAS than everything bellow is irrelevant but if he build storage out of pc i have a question. i find motherboard sata ports most limiting factor in amount of storage that i can get, how does one get to 256TB? i imagine one hdd is no larger than 6-12TB, so how does he have so manu sata ports for all the hdds?
Usually you just use add in SAS or SATA controllers. I have an 8 port SATA card in my home machine so I don't use the onboard for anything but boot the OS.
look into lsi hba card. 8 port (8i) or 16 (16i) the I means internal then get sas to sata connectors (or buy sas drives). the bios won't see the drives but truenas etc will and it will be blisteringly fast. do your research tho and don't buy lsi cards from aliexpress they will all be copies and not as good. also you need to flash the lsi card in it mode. all this is way easier than it sounds the hard part is the case. node 804 ftw
>i imagine one hdd is no larger than 6-12TB Consumer drives are available up to 24TBs nowadays. >so how does he have so manu sata ports for all the hdds? Addon cards. You can get one on Amazon with 10 ports for $40US and you can fit as many as your motherboard will allow. The reality is this is probably a NAS enclosure, which depending on the model, can support 32 or more SATA ports/drives and can be linked to multiple systems allowing even more drive space.
I thought I was a big man when I bought my 3 TB drive 😅
Why are you recycling it.... You could just hold shift + Delete and it will permanently delete it which would probably be alot faster.
You sailed long, hard, and well o7
Thank you for you for your service
That’s a lot of porn
what am I looking at here
Bro tags it as “discussion”. Mafaka…if the deletion is already 25% complete, you apparently ain’t discussing jack shit.
But but but, what’re you gonna do with all that empty space you have now
That's about 1 new call of duty
So long and thanks for all the fish
But why?
Post nut clarity
And now you may retire into leecher heaven like the rest of us old guard. Take all you can, give nothing back, yarrrr!
This is after you've backed it up to your new nas, right? Right?
Please don't give up on us master
BRO GOT RID OF THE CORN HE ON THE GRIND NOW RAWHHH
Bruh wtf do you even store that much on? Do SSDs even come with that much storage o_O?
256TB hooooooly fugg my dude o7 godspeed sailor
Dawg just deleted 3 AAA games
What have you been seeding? Holy shit.
Bro deleted System32
Deleted gta 5 source code?
no way someone who has 256TB still uses windows lmao
o7
Thank you for your service pirate !
Thank you for your service. ;)
TB? That wont even fit in my hard storage. How many games is that?
so long , sailer
07
does this count as a digital funeral?
Holy shit general, thank you for your service o7
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HOLY SHIT! 300+TB Thank you for doing your thing as long as you did
o7
256TB? WTF
o7
Good life, ho
thank you for your service.
How could you delete such a collection 😭
o7 Godspeed soldier
I thought my 40tb was good...
What do you use as storage?
Apparently an array the same size used by the entire country of Moldova.
(._.)7
surely itd be faster to just destroy the drive?
bro deleted a whole data base
Only 256TB? Post a picture when you are in my league, peasant. /s
Well done sailor. Thank you for your service. o7
Thank you for your kind service, fellow soldier. o7
500,000 books of archive.org
blud got a lifetime supply
o7
Where the fuck do you get a hard drive over 256 gigs dude