I don't want to shame the vendor, it was just a shocking admission for a vendor to post.

@DustinB3403 fixed

@coliver said in Math Check: 45x 4TB drives in a BackBlaze system.......:

@travisdh1 said in Math Check: 45x 4TB drives in a BackBlaze system.......:

@DustinB3403 said in Math Check: 45x 4TB drives in a BackBlaze system.......:

Someone needs to rip that earring out of his head.

Maybe then he'll get a clue.

He wouldn't get as many views then, and that's really the point. People don't like watching someone succeed nearly so much as the utterly stupid. (See his $100,000 pc build for another one.)

Views also get him sponsorship which is where the $100,000 PC came from.

Exactly. The sponsors don't care that the content is banal. They care about the numbers of viewers and to a lesser degree their demographics.

@DenisKelley said:

I definitely like the ability to embed videos. I thought that would be a great feature over at SW.

I'm loving it.

IOPS are the biggest concern really. But without anything like a database which really needs them, RAID 6 might be more than enough. Exchange wouldn't be a big concern as it is not IOPS heavy. RAID 10 is far better tuned for heavy writes, but if reads are the vast majority, RAID 6 will keep right up.

@roguepacket In light of recent events, and I'm leaving it at that, I would be very surprised if I got asked to speak.