Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2020 03:36:57 -0400 From: Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: (very OT) Ideal partition schemes (history of partitioning) Message-ID: <CAGBxaX=M5dRMUYdHwkmN1WZ2gCMTQgmLNOH3zKHMvJjvkNwhXw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGBxaXn1ieuQm5Tx4N8AcbokLMATFVeUS75UDgJGKpRdbg-qWA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGBxaXkf53K4EHtq9cDaRm3MOZZixyBq-aQfZ7upHo-wUwrmCg@mail.gmail.com> <20200829154417.8dd5f83d.freebsd@edvax.de> <20200830085848.68ab4832@archlinux> <20200830091740.7cfd94cf@archlinux> <CAGBxaXn1ieuQm5Tx4N8AcbokLMATFVeUS75UDgJGKpRdbg-qWA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 3:30 AM Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 3:22 AM Ralf Mardorf <ralf-mardorf@riseup.net> > wrote: > >> On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 08:58:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> >I guess not many people really need a multi-boot with more than 3 or 4 >> >operating systems, that require a primary partition and not many >> >private persons really need to store more than 2 TB/disk. >> ^^ >> This should read "2 TB >> of data/disk" >> >> 2 TB are a lot and we could use 2 or more drives. >> >> I can't comment on server farms, but we probably waste a lot of >> resources to store selfie videos, showing people taking selfie photos. >> Maybe all the useful data stored by one or the other server farm could >> be stored even on a 1 TB drive. I suspect that most stored digital data >> nowadays is nothing but digital waste. >> > > Waste is in the eye of the beholder. For example my kitchen trash is > clearly a waste to me but to ConEd it is fuel to keep my lights on. > Depends on what you have and why for example I tend to download a lot of > videos of long train trips (looking out the front window) because the > videos are quite hypnotic and thus good meditation/sleep aids, but watching > the same video over and over again is not enough variety for the effect to > work, same with ads if you watch them on youtube. Therefore I have over 1 > TB of train videos (about 40 of them) and am always fighting to find more > room for the next really cool one I find. Almost these are 4k @ 60 fps so > they are not light on disk space. > > Professionally 2 TB would only hold about 6 months of EKG data for the > patient load we have and the law requires us to keep them for 2 years. > I should note the professional case is not a hypothetical either since running out of room in the partition to backup the DB for the above case is what triggered this thread (the OS that I left unnamed is centos and the DB is 65 GB so backing it up is fun [and yes triggered by the ISP I was complaining about a while ago being jerks]). > So 2 TB is quite common these days for storage needs. Especially seeing > there some games that require 50 GB just to be installed. > > Split it over several OS's and the problem is obvious. > > > -- > Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org > -- Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
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