..... Glory you say?
Oh snap, so pulling from pre network... Or just very determined.
My hatred of commercials is... Strong. Kudos to black screens of comforting non-crap.
How do you do this without still having to see the commercials? Those are a huge part of the enriching unfortunately...
I personally have dedicated machines per task.
8x SSD machine: runs services for Arr stack, temporary download and work destination.
4-5x misc 16x Bay boxes: raw storage boxes. NFS shared. ZFS underlying drive config. Changes on a whim for what's on them, but usually it's 1x for movies, 2x for TV, etc. Categories can be spread to multiple places.
2-3x 8x bay boxes: critical storage. Different drive geometric config, higher resilience. Hypervisors. I run a mix of Xen and proxmox depending on need.
All get 10gb interconnect, with critical stuff (nothing Arr for sure) like personal vids and photos pushed to small encrypted storage like BackBlaze.
The NFS shared stores, once you get everything mapped, allow some smooth automation to migrate things pretty smoothly around to allow maintenance and such.
Mostly it's all 10 year old or older gear. Fiber 10gb cards can be had off eBay for a few bucks, just watch out for compatibility and the cost for the transceivers.
8 port SAS controllers can be gotten same way new off eBay from a few vendors, just explicitly look for "IT mode" so you don't get a raid controller by accident.
SuperMicro makes quality gear for this... Used can be affordable and I've had excellent luck. Most have a great ipmi controller for simple diagnostic needs too. Some of the best SAS drive planes are made by them.
Check BackBlaze disk stats from their blog for drive suggestions!
Heat becomes a huge factor, and the drives are particularly sensitive to it... Running hot shortens lifespan. Plan accordingly.
It's going to be noisy.
Filter your air in the room.
The rsync command is a good friend in a pinch for data evacuation.
Your servers are cattle, not pets... If one is ill, sometimes it's best to put it down (wipe and reload). If you suspect hardware, get it out of the mix quick, test and or replace before risking your data again.
You are always closer to dataloss than you realize. Be paranoid.
Don't trust SMART. Learn how to read the full report. Pending-Sectors above 0 is always failure... Remove that disk!
Keep 2 thumb drives with your installer handy.
Keep a repo somewhere with your basics of network configs... Ideally sorted by machine.
Leave yourself a back door network... Most machines will have a 1gb port. Might be handy when you least expect. Setting up LAGG with those 1gb ports as fallback for the higher speed fiber can save headaches later too...
Ahhh, my old nemesis... Analog Gap! I knew we'd meet again some day!
After doing terrible crap for so long without much, if any, punishment leads to brazen and absurd tactics...
Soon I expect something akin to them running their own marketplace scams or similar fraud just because it's so profitable vs expense/penalty.
As you say, it's like a bad caricature of the stereotype.
Meta also allegedly modified settings "so that the smallest amount of seeding possible could occur," a Meta executive in charge of project management, Michael Clark, said in a deposition.
Douchebags.
I agree, it's inane. But just like wanting back doors to e2e encryption, some idiot politicians will push for it despite for sure.
Gonna give them a spin... Egress seems at a glance more expensive for my use, but I like having options.
Thanks!
More likely at this point, he'd do "Heil Musk!"
Trump is just a tool. In so many definitions.