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Bought some antidepressants yesterday. Now I would not be anxious watching HDD prices skyrocket.
Also noticed the larger the drive, the slower the price hike. At least at our local retail stores.
#HDDPrices #HDD #storage #homelab
Mon disque dur USB me rend fou 😠 !
Ces erreurs "Input/Output" en pleine sauvegarde, c'est insupportable !
Linux économise l'énergie un peu trop agressivement. Heureusement, j'ai trouvé un super guide pour garder mes disques éveillés et mes backups en sécurité ! 🛠️🐧
C'est par ici : https://wiki.blablalinux.be/fr/stabiliser-disques-usb-autosuspend
Are we measuring wellness in terabytes already? I have some gold :)
One is clicking, but I don’t know which one. Will put them in a box with other unused hardware for now. Can be useful someday.
#hdd #hdds #harddrives #harddrive #hardware #wd #seagate #homelab
#HDD Festplatte mit aktiver Fertigsuppenkühlung.
Prototyp. Demnächst im Handel.
#HowTo Paper mit Konferenzvortrag nächsten Monat.
PS: Die Kühlung ist echt - die Platte wurde einfach zu heiß 😂
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Das Bild zeigt eine externe Festplatte mit einer aufliegenden Fertigsuppe von Unox in einer metallbeschichteten Tüte. Die Suppe aus dem Kühlschrank ist die tatsächlich echte Kühlung für die überhitzte Platte.
Yet another good video by @geerlingguy regarding the harm from the current so called #AI bubble based on #LLM
Even #HDD prices gone up due of this disgusting "AI" craze
#TIL that HDD prices also increased (because of "AI") like the SSD/memory prices before. I was slowly building my home NAS, thinking that if I use HDD, not SSD, then I should race only with the possibility of Internet shutdown in my country and hope that I'll build the machine before the Internet will become unusable or completely turned off, and I will be able to preserve at least something from human knowledge and creativity. But … looks like for now I should race not only with censorship, but also with fucking "AI" corporations
The worst timeline ever, I never saw how the price of something was decreased in my life. When I moved to my city at 2008, the bus fare was near 18 roubles. For now it is 88 roubles — the 389% rise. Fuck this shit.
I think, one time the novel "Walkaway" from Cory Doctorow will become not a novel but a real-life. Because there are no mass-adopted solution for now — you could choose only in between "you own nothing and be happy" and "you own nothing and welcome to GULAG" . So the good enough solution — not to participate in that circus at all and walk away.
Datacenter backup of backups
• A datacenter backup is another building far, far away from the main one (other town / city / country)
• You need it in case your main datacenter gets into a catastrophy (fire, earthquake, flood, tsunami, sinkhole, meteor strike)
• The backup datacenter is smaller and has less processing power, but enough to keep demand / response flowing, fair to bit slow, but keep the site(s) on air
•• backup datacenters are fully uitlized facilities, just smaller
•• they need the same as the bullet points stated above
•• they eat RAM HDDs SSDs et all, just at a smaller scale, but still large enough to hit the consumer market severely
Conclusion
We are fucked!
• just kidding ;)
No we are in heavy seas
• observe
History lesson
• In the 1990's there was a disaster with electrolytic capacitors
• They were produced with faulty dielectric materials
• The elco's swelled up (toxic gasses forming) after a short while of working (days, weeks to some months) then exploded or teared open, causing shorts which fried components like chipset IC's CPU's 16550AF UARTS sound ICs etc
• The capacitors were installed on hundreds of thousands of motherboards
We survived
• The computing world did not end!
• Many of you reading need to look this event up
• Most of the people who were fixing the boards have forgotten the event period
We shall overcome the LLM component crises
• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevail
Stay positive!
Thank you for reading
^Z
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#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve
💾 Western Digital
We are sold out
WTF!??
Why?
• LLM's demolished the server HDD stock.
Western Digital has run out of HDD capacity for 2026!
Disaster for consumers small professionals & even large professionals!
CEO Irving Tan has confirmed the company is running on fumes
• Purchase orders from major customers & longterm agreements are reaching well into 2K27 & even 2K28!
• Three years of desert level drought is close for consumers regarding WD HDD's
Who is buying the HDD stock?
Datacenters
• LLM companies (what a set of ^&^#$&^)
• Cloud & Hyperscale Data Centers
•• many don't even have their datacenters built
• These entities now give WD 90% of its revenue.
• Consumer drives are just 10%.
Enterprise demand is decumating supply
• LLM training
• inference logs
• scraped STOLEN web data
• backups
•• these need many Petabytes of storage
Even though GPUs get the headlines (whining gamers), HDDs are the crucial backbone of LLM boom
•• They’re still the most cost-effective way to store Peta and Exabytes of data.
Results
• Consumer HDD supplies shrink
• Enterprise long term agreements {LTA} are locking in multi-year volume + pricing
• Price pressure is already happening (I feel them already)
•• A puny 8TiB Western Digital consumer grade HDD was 108USD two years ago all they way to my country of SR / SA
•• That same 8TiB HDD is now 196 USD to my country if and WHEN I can find it
••• I now find other brands easier but due to the higher quality they naturally cost more to begin with
••• Toshiba 7 Fujitsu are a few of those brands
••• I'd be better off getting a box of 24TiB server grade HDD's
••• In bulk ammounts, these cost less per TiB & they have many more IOPs that consumer HDDs
DRAM and NAND
We are all suffering from DRAM and NAND prices seeking amazingly horrific heights
• Try to get a 64GiB to 512GiB microSD card for a normal price (feb 2K25 level)
• While you are at it do the same with 64GiB to 256GiB USB sticks
• You won't find them (needles in haystacks aer a snap to find in comparison)
•• Large microSD cards are for now fairly normally priced (20% more) but I need small ones for my SBC computer(s) which need many OS distro's to boot from, to perform different functions with differen HATs
Since septenmber 2K25 my beloved consumer HDDs are getting much more expensive also
The LLM cycle of tsunami like destruction is not just 6nm IC's
It’s about everything datacenter wise
What is needed in a datacenter?
• H2O O2 N2 CU
•• you need water and those gasses to keep the natural flow of air running in your massive building which looks more like an Amazon storage facility than a computer server building.
• sand / grounds / realistate
• steel and iron
•• without those your facility can't even be build
• AC \ DC {not our beloved metal band ;)}
•• you need to power the servers, JBOD enclosures & HDDs, SSD enclosures to cache the HDDs, fibre optic backbones, CU cabling & rails, circuit breakers, switches
• AC regulation
•• AC regulation is a whole seperate topic which I'll touch briefly
••• I setup matrix UPS systems which take the AC from the grid, convert it to DC then make their own super stable PFC corrected AC for the server racks
••• This guarantees stable power on all rails in the datacenter
• AC is also generated on our own AC generator matrix
•• Some generators (in FIFO sequence) run concurrently with AC
•• When AC grid failures occur these generators give power within a few seconds to the UPS matrix, which keep feeding the rails in the buildings
•• The other generators spool up and stabilize fast keeping the datacenter running smoothly on power
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#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve
Thank you for this valuable insight from the powerful BSD POV
This would make hosting for pure personal LAN use fairly affordable and with fairly low HDD power requirements, since you use 30TB 27.28 TiB HDD at a lower HDD count
Do you have a link to these 27.28 TiB drives because I haven't seen them yet
#HDD #ZFS #partitions #BSD #technology #InfoSec #passwords #Spotify #breach #300TB
It may look like I was joking but making such a backup is technically simple.
300TiB / 24TiB per HDD is 12.5 drives
300TiB / 16TiB is 18.75 drives
In reality it's more complex.
A 16TiB HDD is not 16TiB but 16TB lineair
Given a typical 4TB HDD I get just 3.64TiB in partitoned EXT4 HDD Space
That is 91% of the 4TB HDD
At 16TB that is 14.56 TiB {yes the loss is enormous and those hard drive companies are idiots because computer systems count in base² Binary not base10}
A 16TB drive is actually a 14.56 TiB Drive, it should be sold as 14.56 TiB not 16TB because that is misleading and false advertisement.
With these parameters we will need in reality 300 TiB / 14.56 TiB = 20.6
So we will need 21 drives for the task at 14.56 TiB. In the replication you will need twice the amount
This would become a JBOD just a bundle of drives, which is the easiest form to concatenate hard drive space to together.
A 4U JBOD enclosure can harbour a lot of drives. At the most you will need two.
Double the amount if you want a local backup of your main Spotify data.
Then you will need a 1U case for the computing System. A typical server motherboard, 1x AMD EPYC CPU, 512GB ram is more than sufficient.
You will need Fast Access to the Drive Array. 10GBit / sec in duplo should be enough. That means that your switches cables and network infrastructure will be expensive.
The high cost of AC power globally, can be a limiting factor when you have to power 42 hard drives provided that you are a Soho Network Builder, though.
That is the only factor you cannot calculate with constants
^Z
#HDD #EXT4 #partitions #Linux #InfoSec #passwords #Spotify #breach #300TB
Wer macht I/O-Ärger auf meinem #Linux?
Wenn Ihr mal wieder I/O-Probleme auf Eurer Linux-Kiste habt, mein Tipp: iotop. Der zeigt Euch genau an, WER die Probleme verursacht. Das Tool iostat (sysstat Packet) zeigt nur die gesamte I/O-Systemlast an. Das reicht oft nicht. Wenn Ihr schon flächendeckend SSD ausgerollt habt, wird Euch das wahrscheinlich nicht mehr sonderlich jucken...
Meine Notizen hier: https://www.shinguz.ch/computer/linux/disk-io/
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3 kleine Helfer: #Capture- #Karte als Monitor, #APT-Schlüssel Probleme, Dateien von #HDD #sicher #löschen.
Dieses Mal geht es bei 3 kleine Helfer darum, wie Ihr eine Capture-Karte zu einem virtuellen Monitor umwandeln könnt, wie Ihr mit #APT-Schlüsselproblemen unter #Debian, #Ubuntu, #Linux #Mint und anderen #APT-Distributionen umgeht und wie Ihr Dateien sicher von #Magnetplatten löscht.
It will be nice to get feedback from people who work in small to medium scale storage systems. I want to learn efficiënt ways to improve upon my archival storage procedures on a femto scale budget
^Z
#OpenSource #Photography #DSLR #SLR #camera #storage #technology #tar #tape #HDD #SSD #EXT4 #ZFS #HAMMER2 #RAID