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[9.72 --> 12.30] And Chris, as always, how are you doing? Happy New Year, sir. |
[13.02 --> 17.90] Hey, you know what? I want to say thank you to the team that stepped in for the holiday 3D printing episode. |
[18.02 --> 21.24] That was a lot of fun. And now it feels like I haven't done this forever. |
[21.84 --> 24.88] Yeah, who are you again? What is this thing in front of my face? |
[25.52 --> 29.64] Well, I thought maybe if I brought Brent with me, I'd be accepted back. |
[30.44 --> 33.44] Maybe. We'll see. The jury is still out on that one. |
[33.86 --> 35.02] It always works with Alex. |
[36.58 --> 38.72] The quickest way to Alex's heart is through a Brent. |
[40.02 --> 46.26] It's true. Also, video games. You know, my favorite game of all time, I think, is probably Factorio. |
[46.50 --> 52.66] But I potentially have a new one, which is vying for a top spot at the moment. |
[52.66 --> 55.26] It's called Anno 1800. Have either of you played this game? |
[55.96 --> 58.98] This is the first I hear of it. Yeah, same. What kind of game is this? |
[58.98 --> 63.32] It's a city builder where you manage supply chains and that kind of thing. |
[63.82 --> 65.56] Oh, it sounds like it's up your alley. |
[65.66 --> 70.32] You're pretty much playing as the East India Trading Company, minus the slavery part. |
[70.56 --> 71.30] So that's kind of nice. |
[72.28 --> 74.86] But yeah, you just trade goods back and forth and build cities. |
[74.86 --> 78.84] And yeah, it's a fun, relaxing, single player game. |
[79.24 --> 81.06] When was this released and how did you hear of it? |
[82.22 --> 84.74] Ages ago. I don't know when it was released exactly. |
[85.00 --> 91.74] But I think I heard about it first when Linus of Tech Tip fame mentioned it on one of his videos. |
[91.78 --> 93.04] And I thought, oh, I'll go and check it out. |
[93.12 --> 95.40] And downloaded the demo and liked it. So I bought it. |
[95.40 --> 98.86] It's kind of great when you discover a game that's been out for a while. |
[98.86 --> 101.24] So that means it's got a couple of patches under its belt. |
[101.56 --> 103.74] You can find stuff online. There's a community. |
[104.24 --> 105.20] Sort of a sweet spot. |
[105.76 --> 108.90] You know, a game doesn't have to be cutting edge brand new for it to be enjoyable. |
[109.76 --> 110.58] Absolutely not. |
[110.74 --> 113.02] Speaking of stuff that's no longer cutting edge and brand new, |
[113.46 --> 118.76] I thought I'd just do a quick bit of follow up on the Linux Unplugged predictions episode. |
[118.76 --> 123.62] Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make the recording of this year's predictions episode itself. |
[123.90 --> 131.64] But I thought I'd follow up on the prediction I made last year about 20 terabyte hard drives being available, |
[131.82 --> 133.84] I think, for 250 bucks at Best Buy. |
[134.92 --> 135.76] That didn't quite pan out. |
[135.98 --> 137.74] No, it didn't quite, did it? No. |
[137.84 --> 141.76] I mean, there was a few shenanigans going on that kind of scuppered my plans. |
[142.62 --> 143.76] First of all, supply chain. |
[143.88 --> 146.88] Obviously, we all know at this point what's going on with the supply chain. |
[146.88 --> 148.16] But second of all was Chia. |
[148.16 --> 152.82] We had a hard drive mining crypto coin come out of the woodwork. |
[153.60 --> 157.56] Yeah, there's just no way with all that was going on that was going to happen. |
[157.94 --> 160.24] You think maybe you got a better shot this year? |
[160.88 --> 162.60] No, but I'm just going to say it anyway. |
[163.78 --> 167.88] I mean, I was trying to, you know, with this Anno 1800 game, |
[167.94 --> 171.32] I've got a 1080 Ti graphics card, which I've had for several years now, |
[171.86 --> 176.68] which was actually incidentally paid for originally by Bitcoin mining four years ago. |
[176.68 --> 180.06] And now with this Anno 1800 game, I've been looking for a new GPU. |
[180.28 --> 183.84] And I was looking, you know, just to see what was out there. |
[184.24 --> 190.76] The cheapest 3080 that I could find was on Facebook Marketplace near me for $1,800. |
[192.82 --> 194.34] What is going on with that? |
[194.34 --> 197.80] Oh, ridiculous. |
[198.32 --> 201.72] Yeah, we've been building a new replacement server here. |
[202.16 --> 208.12] And the number one cost, because the audience has been so awesome by providing the main rigs, |
[208.12 --> 211.28] has been storage and just a limited amount of storage. |
[211.32 --> 215.32] So I had to buy a batch of two terabytes and a batch of four terabytes. |
[215.32 --> 217.04] I wanted all four terabytes, obviously. |
[217.30 --> 221.52] And I had to buy them all used, which I'm not super comfortable with. |
[222.04 --> 224.56] But it's going to be in a raid array. |
[224.78 --> 227.30] So hopefully if one or two pops, we'll be all right. |
[227.44 --> 228.38] But they're all used disks. |
[228.58 --> 232.60] And, you know, we paid a fair amount for them, even buying in the after, you know, |
[233.30 --> 236.84] whatever you call it, the lightly loved market, I assume, because they're enterprise drives. |
[236.96 --> 239.00] So I hope, I hope they'll last. |
[239.52 --> 242.68] I've just recently learned about this whole hard drive used market. |
[242.68 --> 246.24] Is this, Alex, you think something worth even considering? |
[247.44 --> 249.06] I mean, how cheap are we talking? |
[249.64 --> 252.36] A 14 terabyte, so here's my reference point. |
[252.76 --> 256.36] A 14 terabyte easy store that I can shuck from Best Buy. |
[256.72 --> 261.74] I think I picked one up before Christmas for about $190, $200, something like that. |
[262.58 --> 265.32] I think it's also, what is your risk tolerance? |
[265.64 --> 271.42] And do you have a setup that can tolerate one or two drives at least failing? |
[271.42 --> 272.94] Yeah, that makes sense. |
[273.08 --> 275.44] So the new server, do we keep that in mind? |
[275.56 --> 275.74] Yeah. |
[275.90 --> 278.26] Yeah, we can sustain a couple disks failing. |
[278.42 --> 281.96] I think in total, we're okay until three fail simultaneously. |
[282.72 --> 289.46] And I normally wouldn't think that's likely, except for these are probably all originally from the same manufacturing batch. |
[289.92 --> 294.52] They're all the same exact hard drive, the same exact model, all bought at the same exact time. |
[294.52 --> 297.18] I thought that was a rule not to do that. |
[297.40 --> 301.58] I'm pretty sure there's a rule against that, like the bathtub curve or something. |
[301.82 --> 303.06] Yeah, yeah, yeah. |
[303.20 --> 305.34] But beggars are definitely not choosers. |
[305.64 --> 306.86] And in this case, that's what we got. |
[307.26 --> 313.00] Have you considered calling your buddy Alex over here and shipping him a couple of hard drives, |
[313.04 --> 317.80] and then you could use some of his basement space as a off-site backup? |
[318.04 --> 318.86] Maybe we could do that. |
[319.02 --> 320.02] That'd be a fun project. |
[320.02 --> 325.16] Now, I know this is a lot of power, but what about a full server, potentially? |
[325.62 --> 325.92] Why? |
[326.24 --> 328.92] Well, because I think I might have one that I'm going to totally sync. |
[330.40 --> 330.76] Okay. |
[331.76 --> 333.00] I mean, you know. |
[333.38 --> 335.74] I think he has more servers than hard drive space. |
[335.80 --> 337.20] You're pretty off-site, you know. |
[337.26 --> 340.44] That's a good off-site backup, you know, in terms of off-site backups go. |
[340.52 --> 341.44] One in the east, one in the west. |
[341.44 --> 345.50] I mean, if a nuke hit DC, would it come out as far as Raleigh? |
[345.92 --> 346.32] Probably. |
[347.04 --> 347.50] I don't know. |
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