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[TheBoy]

I've been contemplating for too long what to do with the footage from one of the quadcopter for 2 or 3 weeks, whether to store somewhere or just delete the raw footage and rely on Youtube for its history.

Pondered too long, and ran out of space on a flight at lunchtime.  It doesn't seem that long ago that got my first 100+Gb hard disk, on which I thought I could store the whole world.  Now I've filled 128Gb SD in less than 4 weeks

So ordered another whilst I think about what to do with the raw footage . Whats the betting I'm back here in a week or 2 saying the same thing

[dave the builder]

why not get a Nas drive and slap some 4TB drives in 

[TheBoy]

why not get a Nas drive and slap some 4TB drives in 

Thats generally an expensive way to get a poorly performing mediocre capacity storage system.

But I'd soon eat through the 5-10Tb space such a system would offer

[dave the builder]

That's a lot of porn , may be cheaper to get a pornhub subscription 

[TheBoy]

That's a lot of porn , may be cheaper to get a pornhub subscription 

Its mental how much storage you need now...  ...and video files are getting unmanageably big.  I've probably uploaded 50+Gb to that gay YouTube thing today.

[TheBoy]

Annoyingly, I have bucket loads of 2.5" SAS drives.  But being SAS, hard to utilise

[dave the builder]

Annoyingly, I have bucket loads of 2.5" SAS drives.  But being SAS, hard to utilise

Have a couple of IBM eServers here if you want them 
you will need a power station to run them though 
and 3 shredded wheat for breakfast to pick em up 

[TheBoy]

Annoyingly, I have bucket loads of 2.5" SAS drives.  But being SAS, hard to utilise

Have a couple of IBM eServers here if you want them 
you will need a power station to run them though 
and 3 shredded wheat for breakfast to pick em up 

I have a tidy collection of HPE Proliants, but my poor electric meter is getting knackered.

[dave the builder]

They do like to eat the electric
I had a look inside , 2 power supplies in case 1 fails ,lots of doubling up
be good as heaters if we do have another ice age though 

[TheBoy]

They do like to eat the electric
I had a look inside , 2 power supplies in case 1 fails ,lots of doubling up
be good as heaters if we do have another ice age though 

The radiator in my office at home has not been on for about 15 years

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I discovered the A/C had packed up in the server room at work recently. It was like walking into a sauna. I was told there was no need to panic until it got well past 50 degrees, so went back to my chair, logged onto OOF and forgot about it.

[STEMO]

I discovered the A/C had packed up in the server room at work recently. It was like walking into a sauna. I was told there was no need to panic until it got well past 50 degrees, so went back to my chair, logged onto OOF and forgot about it.

Do they still use halon gas in those places if there's a fire?

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

No idea, although maybe I should know as Im the only person on the premises between 9pm and 7am.
At the moment Im not going to give it any more thought as Im about to watch Chopper (film about an Aussie nutter) for the third time.
If you haven't watched it, you should

[Doctor Gollum]

Is that the one with Banana Man in the title role?

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Yep. Based on a trues story.