Who's the Biggest Data Hoarder at LMG?

[@iceleon25]

With more experience, Dan will become a fantastic host. He has the natural charisma

[@sumaoncrack2251]

67 likes no replies let me fix that

[@alexfinns6162]

@@sumaoncrack2251 492 now

[@yessirr3551]

yes

[@evangreavu9621]

I love Dan's dry humor

[@Superagent666]

He seems a little combative with some of the other hosts in videos I've seen. Hopefully he can learn to share without talking over/cutting off other people

[@WitchyRhia]

dan is great, you can tell he's knowledgeable plus he's naturally got that snappy witty rapport with everyone, hoping to see him more often on LTT!

[@ConnorHammond]

10:18 When Dan said "I mean, he probably got so much dopamine saving the day that he's never going to delete any of this." I laughed quite loudly.

[@hushpuppi3]

Plus he's funny without it feeling like he has 'too much' personality, or overtly loud. Just an enjoyable person to have on camera and/or interacting with other people on camera

[@ketroucioued-sly3942]

I liked him, since the first moment I laid eyes on him.

[@fredwerza3478]

Dan might be the biggest rising star at LTT

[@Katjaneway]

I'd like this comment but you're at 669 and I don't want to ruin it. lol

[@maxzeidler4972]

I freaking love Dan, we haven't seen much of him yet, but he's becoming one of my favorite personalities at LTT!

[@Vincent-ye6pe]

Fr, he's funny but so chill, we can see that in their other video when they "build" Linus's house

[@minidude993]

Yeah I've def been enjoying him! I also like Jake too so this video was great

[@EnsignLovell]

Dan is indeed the man. Knowledgeable about hardware, friendly, will happily roast Linus.

[@jspurg]

I was just thinking this in the last video. Dan tech tips now

[@sandzhs]

Same

[@shortanimationz]

"He probably got so much dopamine saving the day that he's never gonna delete any of this" Dan is hysterical without even trying

[@PetrFlosman]

When does he say it? I cannot find it. Also can someone explain this sentence please, it doesn't make sense to me.

[@eflarsen]

@@PetrFlosman saving the day made him super happy so he's gonna keep all the videos just in case he gets to save the day again, basically. It's in the Mark the wedding hoarder section.

[@raw_000]

​@@PetrFlosman 10:18 in the segment about "Mark the wedding hoarder"

[@xperia5295]

Dan is actually quickly becoming one of my fav personalities at LTT.

[@Bayofthe91st]

@@lucasburlingham877 Would be cool if he has a channel and called it Dantech's Inferno

[@fgfh10004]

Dan's such a good host, enjoying seeing him more

[@mavd5831]

Agreed! More Dan!

[@MickySarge]

Dan is a natural! Great fit here.

[@beatsbyandrew]

How do they keep finding people who are more and more likeable?

[@aserta]

Agreed! Very cool cat.

[@shinramiddlemanager7949]

Looks like Alisson Becker

[@Elixir140]

"He's not storing Linux ISOs, he's storing other people's weddings" had me in stitches XD

[@MikkoRantalainen]

I agree. I'm becoming huge fan of Dan. As a bonus, Linus seems to sometimes pronounce is name so that I hear "dad".

[@fredwerza3478]

I dunno who would store 100's of other people's wedding videos for decades --- some weird kind of fetish

[@Deltatron]

Same lmao

[@brettcherry3481]

Give the tapes to the people who's wedding it was; problem solved 🙌🏼

[@fredwerza3478]

@@brettcherry3481 good idea but he said there are literally hundreds of different weddings on those tapes!

[@StudioNirin]

Joining in the love for new guy Dan. Super chill, deadpan wit, perfect fit for the team. Hope to see more of him.

[@WahrerKuroKiba]

It took me to long to remember "linux isos" means pirated stuff because I genuinely have linux isos on my backup/NAS/whatever server

[@ctyoung0271]

Yeah, I've gotten so accustomed to r/datahoarders that I didn't even question the idea that someone would have like every version of Ubuntu just for the sake of posterity...

[@billeckert6614]

I realized about a month ago

[@connoisseurofcookies2047]

@@billeckert6614 I realized about 5 minutes ago. I genuinely hoard disk images and I thought I wasn't the only one.

[@Firepulser]

I didn't realize it until I read your comment lol, for I too actually have Linux ISO on my backup drives. Ubuntu 9.04, 5.10, Lubuntu 10, 11, 12,14, etc and various obscure distros for "ancient" hardware like Tiny Core Linux. So that joke sailed right over my head. I just thought they were avoiding the subject of their pirated goods altogether.

[@kiwihuman]

I have linux ISOs and "Linux ISOs"

I find it so funny how they find it sooo weird that a photographer keeps backups of his work but super reasonable that someone keeps recordings of all the games they have played

[@Naokarma]

While I agree overall, at least the game recordings are your own, and not just a bunch of strangers.

[@sminem6572]

@@Naokarma To be fair, you never know how many years down the line you'll get a call from a family asking if they still have the videos because they lost all of their stuff in a fire, etc. If you can afford it and it doesn't become a waste of time to maintain it, no reason to not just do it.

[@sidbrun_]

@@Naokarma Uhh, I really doubt he's storing terabytes of photos of strangers.

[@HappyGaminz]

for me it is the opposite

[@JeffGeerling]

I think they should sponsor another challenge: someone at the office gets to pick one storage system/NAS for each of these data hoarders and take it offline. The victor is the one who can get back up and running with all their data intact the quickest.

[@jaiden051]

Ooh a verified person. Hello

[@modcolocko]

@@jaiden051 All hail Jeff Geerling

[@jasperfaren371]

That's a very red shirt Jeff thing to say

[@cmusgrave]

Unleash a chaos monkey? :)

[@angerthosenear_yt]

Only 192 days with your Petabyte Pi project!

[@brainlessdude]

Dan will be a great host on its own in no time. Let him get more experienced and get comfortable. He is already such a great addition to the team. Hold him tight and never let him leave!

[@_noize]

Dan is already a legend, what a great addition to LTT.

[@hoodzie9671]

Dan is already getting camera comfy, he's fitting right in at ltt

[@eruannster]

I just want to shower some extra love for Dan. He seems like that lovely, knowledgeable, dry humor best friend everyone needs to have. More Dan!

[@Sirdustetryne]

Dan the man! He has the foundation of a great LTT host.

[@genericyoutubechannel3591]

@🏳️‍⚧️KeebeTheKirbyPlush sainsburys better innit

[@JamesChurchill3]

@@genericyoutubechannel3591 Tesco's Massiv

[@genericyoutubechannel3591]

@@JamesChurchill3 morrisons is pretty cool too

[@leosalonen1564]

@@genericyoutubechannel3591 Aldi is the best but only because I'm a tight arse

[@jacobeaton4042]

Dan is quickly becoming one of the best LTT hosts, need more of his snarky ass lmao

[@jacobeaton4042]

@🏳️‍⚧️KeebeTheKirbyPlush be gone trans flag freak 🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@randomactsofcar310]

Really? I find him rather unlikable

[@blackarnold]

@@randomactsofcar310 thats just you, hes just like every other nerd at lmg

[@xyzzy64]

honestly, i understand the "hoarding" of wedding footage and would do the same. who wants to be that guy who has someone reach out in a desperate effort to reclaim footage of their wedding and have to say "sorry i deleted it".

[@michaelbacqalen1109]

True, and I don't think it is going to take a lot of storage for those wedding footage and using HDDs, it is not going to be expensive either. Heck, my mum wants to get her wedding footage back too, but she couldn't find her wedding photographer anymore

[@joelbates6499]

Start a email campaign to the old customers: "I'm performing a life cleaning. I have video of your wedding. Would you like it all? This is how much $ I'd like for it." Then "Pfft"

[@bruh-tx7tb]

@@michaelbacqalen1109 nah it's not the photographer job to store that shit. It's weird to store other people's wedding photos. Just give the photos to the couple and delete their shit. Problem solve. If they lost it that's their problem.

[@TechnoBabble]

@@bruh-tx7tb photographer here. My "keeper" raw files are kept forever. If a couple wants them again at some point in the future they pay a fee for that, it also allows me to print their stuff for them in the future as printing the delivered JPEGs isn't great.

[@bruh-tx7tb]

@@TechnoBabble That's creepy bruh.

[@lev_e3201]

Capturing lossless vhs footage actually requires a huge amount of data. I started doing the same and a single 6 hr vhs tape (recorded in extended play) is about 240 gb. Of course, you can save a ton of space by compressing the video file to a lossy format, but then you would be losing a little data and that wouldn’t be data hoarding. Those bins of tapes could easily comprise another 25-50 tb of data.

[@namesurname4666]

digital tapes (dv) also use a lot more than regular codecs like h264/mpeg2

[@namesurname4666]

capturing analog footage in lossless is also better because the signal has noise and a lot of movement

[@macoxynormous8569]

I thought I was a hoarder with a 4tb drive.

[@saccaed]

The overestimate is understandable. I remember helping someone with transferring their linux isos to a NAS unit and before starting they wildly overestimated the data on discs. 1TB of CD storage is ~1400 CDs. I've also done the same when I migrated a bunch of linux isos from DVD to a NAS and similarly overestimated; 1TB is ~250 DVDs. If any one person estimates they have more than 1 TB of CDs or 2 TB of DVDs that is a sign to ask for disc counts instead. 1400 discs is a ~1.68 meter tall stack.

[@gljames24]

How would Blu-ray or M-disk affect this?

[@GODAXEN]

3.28 TB and 611 disk betwen cd and dvd, this is an underestimate as this are only the cataloged discs.

[@saccaed]

@@gljames24 M-Disk can be DVD or Blu Ray capacities. Standard bluray is 25GB or 40 per 1TB. Dual layer disks for DVD or Blu Ray can be a consideration as those are double capacity. I would assume single layer capacity though unless otherwise is known.

[@TheOrthodoxWaffle]

Oh my god i'm a dumbass. I was like "why are you backing up linux isos, just download them from the repo". This video makes so much sense now. thank you.

[@saccaed]

@@GODAXEN Working on a small child sized stack.

[@lefunghi6151]

I’d love to get a Linus Tech Tips Guide on how to properly set up an all around data storage and backup system for personal usa cases. Perhaps in Tiers from light users to professional? Would both be super convenient to have and probably make for a nice video!

[@jsutrov]

The problem is they'd need to make a ton of separate videos or cram loads of methods into a supercut because needs are not uniform. Short answer for most people is managed off-site ('cloud').

[@chrisbaker8533]

@@jsutrov Yeah, as long as you encrypt everything you put on there, and pray their algorithm doesn't decide that 'a' is now 'offensive' and deletes everything. I'm being a bit hyperbolic, but you should be aware of what the cloud storage's policies and procedures are, and just like local, don't trust it completely.

[@jsutrov]

@@chrisbaker8533 okay

[@iClone101]

@@chrisbaker8533 I mean, the only time that's ever happened was because the FBI seized all the servers and refuse to take the machines online ever again.

[@thachester]

@@chrisbaker8533 Yea....I had a online storage drive I used just for some stuff I used in multiple sites. It wasn't important but it was a decent collection of stuff I've obtained over the years...well I left the field I was in as a career but kept the stuff as I still did some minor private work. Well I forgot to update my credit card and because I wasn't active using it anymore and an old email address, I let the payments lapse and they deleted all my stuff. It wasn't anything that would affect my life but it's something that could easily be overlooked. Offsite storage is smart as protection against fires, floods, crazy girlfriends, but it's not an end all be all and no solution is.

[@Zsaisse]

I've never just loved a new lmg personality quite like Dan, last time it was Anthony, but Dan is so enjoyable to watch, and I kinda dig the Dan x Jake format, I'd like to see more of this unlikely duo.

[@nemtudom5074]

Dan + Jake is EASILY a straightman duo, with Dan being the straightman and Jake being the agent of chaos

[@jennymckenzie5304]

Dan is beyond hilarious omg. "Hundreds of terabytes... Of someone else's wedding..." The delivery is so perfect

[@XTJ7]

Jake got me at "That's a 1660 Ti, that's for linux ISO encoding" :D Good old linux ISOs

[@orrygel]

Linus is a legend. He listens to the viewers and gave us more DAN!!!

[@JonManProductions]

We may have lost Taran the Macro Man, but now we got Dan The New Man.

[@nit-Inundate]

@@JonManProductions I still miss Taran, man

[@johnsakosky1160]

I had a dual hdd failure on a raid 5 array a few years back. Lost 10 years of family photos. There were tears. Now I have 2 separate raid 6 arrays each with redundant power supplies, battery backup, cold spares, and cloud sync of important files. Some lessons you only really learn after you get a kick in the gut.

[@maotio]

The chances of both drives failing are very slim... that sucks

[@jensenambrose3333]

Yep, I only started using back blaze after I had an external Seagate drive fail that was holding backups as well as some data that wasn't backed up. Now I use back blaze after I had to go through that painful process.

[@vamwolf]

Am the same way with family photo

[@Intelwinsbigly]

*laughs in Mdisc*

[@redpheonix1000]

This isn't meant to rub salt on the wound or anything, but this is exactly the reason there's a saying that goes " *RAID is not a backup* "

[@TylerAdler]

More Dan please he's great

[@mdukasa]

@🏳️‍⚧️KeebeTheKirbyPlush stop spamming every comment

[@Balekkar]

This video made me feel so much more justified about my drive situation. My desktop has 5 hard/solid state drives for a total of 7TB of storage. Most people treat me like some kind of weirdo because I have so much. But I don't hold a candle to any of this.

[@rrecee2639]

Me too. I thought I was excessive with about 12TB of storage half of which is a backup copy. A lot I know I could do without. I keep it because it doesn't physically take up any more space.

[@Exponaut_R-01]

I needed this video for sure. Sadly, it takes forever to backup even if we don't have dozens of terabytes worth.

[@Windows98R]

My PC has 32TB total so you aren’t in the weird category at all. Storage is one of those things that if I can afford to, I never want to deal with “oh no, I need to delete this n that” so I can fit my new game in here, or backup a phone etc.

[@Naokarma]

1TB SSD on my pc, and that's all I need. I'd like 4 total in the future, but I'm not even close to filling up my 1TB. Watching this video feels like aliens talking due to how wildly different our lives are, with storage. Genuinely, what are y'all doing with all that space? I think it just comes down to profession, cause everyone questioned is obviously involved with video content production, and all I got is some Steam games and a couple bits of art I thought was neat that I never even look at, which are backed up on Mega, and that's it.

[@Gizfreek]

Video aside, you guys made an excellent job with your new hires, especially Dan and Adam. It baffles me that they are just there and perform on spot in their first videos, huge props to them and the team!

[@Neoxon619]

I figured it’d be Linus considering that he at least backs up all of his Blu-Ray movies. Not to mention that massive server at his new house.

[@lunatic_gaming123]

Technically it is Linus because he wanted to keep all of the ltt footage

[@sumaoncrack2251]

100 likes i fixed it, i think

[@erichb4530]

used to be able to mount full bluray ISO's with media center software on my HPTC to keep the menus and uncompressed audio etc, but I gave up trying to figure out anyone supporting this anymore. sad

[@erichb4530]

@Bobbybob thanks I appreciate you pointing out that option, but browsing windows folders to launch an ISO with VLC would be a pretty terrible couch experience

[@carl2k6]

@@erichb4530 doesn't Kodi do this out of the box?

[@25Dzone]

Dan is like a less snarky, more subtly funny Lewis Brindley from Yogscast

[@jekanyika]

The Bristol pusher.

[@curtisss]

I haven't watched Yogscast in forever, what do they do now? I watched back in the shadow of israphael days

[@blessedbull1]

@@curtisss the triforce podcast is pretty good to listen to if you are doing something mundane like driving.

[@monkeyman0759]

@@curtisss unfortunately they just churn out gmod or whatever is currently popular as much as possible instead of making quality stuff. Sips is still going great though and has never lost me. What a guy.

[@curtisss]

@@monkeyman0759 I used to love the chemistry between Simon and his friend (who's name escaped my head now)

[@danielsouders5553]

Dan is quickly becoming one of my favorite members of the team

[@EAGLEMANFREEDOM]

I love how fondly Jake speaks about things in Linus’s house.

[@Budget-Guitar-Show-DM]

Hey✋📦.

[@gambareyo]

Dan is the kind of person we all love and want to have a coworker/friend/host/person we all want in our lives. Also, the Jake and Dan duo, love it.

[@ArunavaVishalDutta]

It was from LTT video I came to know about Acronis. Visited their website and casually went to their career page and was lucky to see they have openings in India and now working with Acronis. 🤞🏻

[@RaphaelSwinkels]

acronis is good sofware just a bit slow for my liking

[@random36745]

Can you ask some of the devs why they hate error messages that are useful? -Sincerely Acronis Cyber Backup customer. Acronis software - "Hey, something went wrong. You should probably fix this". User - "sure, what's the error message? Can't be a big deal". Acronis - "oh this is super simple. Dhfh4&7/'!&cbskc-zhfe". Google - "don't look at me. I don't know what they are talking about"

[@ArunavaVishalDutta]

@@random36745 actually there’s log files *mms0.log* etc which keeps track of all error messages and everything, you can check those logs actually and supply it to acronis support team they will surely look into that and fix it.

[@ArunavaVishalDutta]

@@RaphaelSwinkels will pass the feedback, you can put in a support request as well. Team will surely check the performance and perform any optimizations if needed.

[@SonofTheMorningStar666]

Congrats!

[@shaneofcanada7042]

Well, today I learned that I'm a data horder... This whole time I just thought a good way of backing up data was - fill drive - remove drive and place in drawer - buy and install new drive... It's worked so far!

[@danieljensen2626]

TBH that's not that terrible, although it's not really a backup unless you have 2 copies of all of the drives. Powering them on once every year or two can help a bit with bit rot.

[@JohnnyYeTaecanUktena]

Honestly i say it depends on what you do, also depends on how big the drives were as filling up 10tb drives at a time makes for great storage considering you can get 14tb drives for around $200 USD and 2tb SSDs for around $60 USD

[@demofighter]

My wife lost her phone in a porter potty and we thought we lost the first 11 months of our first child's life. Years later, facebook, and google photos started doing those memory things. We started bawling the first time google was like "here are some memories!" We pay for a backup service now, because of that experience.

[@psycronizer]

are you seriously telling us that you just left all your data of that nature on a phone ? you didn't think it important enough to have a hard backup on a DVD or USB drive ? or S.S.D ? why would you PAY for a backup service ? that's nuts ! cloud data is just , ugh...

[@nemtudom5074]

Please tell me you stopped sharing your important files with those data mining pieces of filth Backblaze, or someone trustworthy, please

[@demofighter]

@@psycronizer I was completely new to any sort of data that was precious enough to back up, it just wasn't important for any reason yet. My wife also took all the pictures with her phone, and I didn't consider what was at stake because I had a digital camera before that and always had to make backups by putting them on my PC, and sharing them via USB sticks. Why would I back up crappy phone pictures was probably my reasoning.

[@psycronizer]

@@demofighter fair enough, everyone starts somewhere, but a backup service? Maybe someone as time poor as Linus but....

[@demofighter]

@@psycronizer it's basically just Dropbox. And it's just for the mission critical stuff. Everything could be destroyed tomorrow in a fire and I wouldn't be heartbroken.

[@piggypoo]

15:53 "That's nice!" "That's bad!" **glances at Jake waiting for the reaction

[@Lizlodude]

Definitely want more of Dan, was fun to watch him in this and the house move-in. Not a fan of the way the video was structured though, I assume there were some limitations in having the interviews shot first, but it felt a bit disjointed; sometimes it seemed like you were addressing the person being interviewed, and sometimes not. Just my 2 cents (not Jay's though) Lastly, a word of advice: TEST YOUR BACKUPS! The worst time to find out the backup has an issue is when you're trying to restore it after a failure.

[@Asdasdas1337]

"Do LMG staff practice what they preach?" duude, LMG staff didnt even set up scrubs on their production storage server.

[@IamBananas007]

whatttt. that's insane. it's so easy to do.

[@Intel-i7-9700k]

@@orangejuice6286 You just cancelled LTT because they did an oopsie. Nah man.

[@NyxHunter]

Yeah and they've admitted their mistake but like they said they have been figuring all this out as they go. That server was set up years ago and it wasn't an automatic feature back then I do believe. Plus as Linus has always said the petabyte project has always just been a flex and not actually practical. He doesn't need to store every second of footage they've ever shot it's just a fun project that gives them an excuse to dable in the more insane and expensive side of data storage

[@Intel-i7-9700k]

@@NyxHunter Exactly. Tech is you live and you learn. And you learn by venturing out to new projects and areas.

[@astral6749]

I'm data hoarding my Zoom classes right now. I'm thinking that I might use them in the future if I ever want to re-educate myself (probably won't ever happen tho).

[@monsman566]

mannnnn me too! i really wanna delete it but felt like it might be useful in the future

[@Nobody7720]

Let me get those

[@Muhluri]

Damn I might consider that

[@Axodus]

send zooms

[@ReidvinK]

remember to tag your stuff

[@cortesacrawford]

Yo shoutout for Dan for being an amazing host. After 2 videos he's already one of my favorite to see on camera.

[@maxman1244]

I friggin love Dan so much, just clicks on camera, naturally funny (doesn't feel like he's "trying" iykwim) Knowledgable of course, and personally, I really love his softer voice, it adds to the hilarity of the jokes

[@m0nkeyman911]

"It's unnecessary because he's not storing Linux ISOs" Dan is good

[@patrykbubela]

easily one of the best videos lately, love to see more server and networking content. Congrats Jake!

[@keoki82]

It would be helpful to cite sources for the claim that keeping backups on unplugged external hard drives is unsafe and/or leads to bit rot. I run a full surface scan of all my externals once a year and I've never had any problems. Keeping HDD backups running 24/7 seems far more risky to me. Power outages and surges happen, and not everyone can afford a UPS. Also, USB externals are not designed to run 24/7, most of them park heads very frequently. Leaving them plugged in all the time will wear them out very quickly.

[@MisterRorschach90]

If I would’ve had patience and waited to get more space rather than constantly deleting files, I too would also be a data hoarder with bedrooms full of storage. Though honestly it would get to a point where I would consolidate everything. Back in the day an external 250gb drive was a big deal. I literally still have 512mb thumb drives lying around.

[@RedstoneMiner18]

I got a 64mb thumb drive, they rare tho and i want more of them

[@plexnbrown760]

P

[@SiphonRayzar]

@@RedstoneMiner18 I still have my 16mb USB 2.0 thumb driver from over 15 years ago.

[@RedstoneMiner18]

@@SiphonRayzar where does one find one?

[@SiphonRayzar]

@@RedstoneMiner18 I got mine from walmart way back in the day. No idea where to find one that small now.

[@hotrod54chevy]

I always wanted to see Jake's NAS, and would actually like a full video on it 😅 But the server stuff really does it for me anyway, so I'm looking forward to future videos on this!

[@OrenjiArms]

one of the best things to come out of quarantine was linus growing out a beard, its crazy just how much better he looks with it, even with all of his quirks its still so much easier to take him seriously and he definitely gives off a more chill vibe now

[@zacks4186]

Dan is great. We need more Dan

[@zerokun2655]

Lol, i cried when i almost(i was able to recover them) lost 10GB of photos i didn't backup and these guys have tens of terabytes of stuff and some of them don't even do backups. I feel less bad about my bad backups habit now xD

[@harambo88]

thats a quite small pronfolder

[@michaelf.2449]

At this point it's almost incompetent because they've lost work related data TWICE and both times were support serious and still no backups

[@zerokun2655]

@@michaelf.2449 yes it is lol

[@zerokun2655]

@@harambo88 do you mean i have few photos? Well mostly they are really low quality old photos but they are memories, besides the smaller the better.. all of my backups(dot files from linux, game files, documents, code, photos) is about 28GB

[@MTGeomancer]

They're beating around the bush a lot because they're on camera, but a lot of that storage is ripped movies ... of questionable legality. Whenever someone says Plex, that's what they're talking about.

[@codygibson2809]

Being a member of r/datahoarder I don’t think I’ve ever clicked on a LMG video faster

[@ALZlper]

How much you got? 😆

[@Smitty_Werbenjagermanjenson]

These guys are rookies by comparison

[@rudysal1429]

I'm a noob in the data hoarder space but I don't have 1k to spend on bigger drives. Barely have a raidz2 with 6x 4tb drives. Want to go to 14tb drives though

[@Iceman259]

My man

[@andrewt.5567]

Then went "Pfffff...."

[@jubuttib]

Dan has been an absolute delight ever since he first showed up. Hopefully he likes being on camera, because I like seeing him on it. =) I'm in the Drobo situation myself. It's been great for me honestly, managed to keep my data through multiple hard drive failures, and my original unit only broke when I was stupid and forgot to take the drives out while moving house. Didn't break completely, but the connectors got a bit flaky. I got a replacement unit without a hassle and it has been working great too. The PROBLEM is that all that was a couple of years back. Drobo right now seems to exist in a weird limbo, where none of their stuff is available in stores, they barely communicate with customers, and they just seem like they're not there anymore, or won't be in a while. And that's not a good thing. So I'm trying to figure out a replacement ASAP, will probably go with Synology. Just annoyed that I can only get a NAS, not a DAS these days... No physical backups of my own, if I could afford those I'd have more storage full stop, but I do have basically all of my data (some filetypes skipped) backed up on cloud should something catastrophic happen, so I'm not actually that worried. It'd be a huge inconvenience, but not the end of the world. EDIT: And before anyone asks "why DAS?": Main reason is that my cloud backup provider doesn't support NAS backups on my service level, and the level that would support them is 5x the price. Secondary is that I don't want to have to rebuild the libraries of all of my media servers (Plex, Ubooquity, etc.), and a DAS would allow me to just stealthily assign the same drive letter to a new one and none of the software would be any the wiser... =)

[@HardWhereHero]

I'm so glad to see someone still playing Sega Saturn's guardian heroes! The 6 player arena mode is insane on that game especially if you can get 6 people playing it at once! That low key looks just the game room in our basement with all the consoles and wires.

[@whitestar618]

I could listen to Dan and Anthony pontificate on things all day! Smooth voices for the internet!

[@iris4547]

thank you this video was the kick i needed to finally go through my nas (which is 9 years old now so the hard drives are living on borrowed time) and finally track down the last few things i dont have extra copies of elsewhere and finally get them backed up to the cloud. unless ive missed something i should now be safe in the event both my nas and pc were to suddenly die at the same time.

[@slowfudgeballs9517]

The video we've all been waiting to for. Who's really the biggest tech nerd of them all?

[@MikkoRantalainen]

12:53 Those seem to be Mini DV tapes. One full Mini DV tape is 13 GB so you can probably fit all those on a single HDD nowadays.

[@sononekoh]

It's kinda awesome that we got an update on the status of Davids water cooler reservoir clips at 6:12. Totally busted.

[@bfvader]

Drobo isn't Mac-specific, they're a DAS device provider that have been around for years. They were popular in the wedding industry for a while until people realized how slow, proprietary, and unstable they are.

[@Alpakka91]

One of my hd's had a hard loss of partition data. It was so hard, that it thought it had no space, and the data was of RAW value. Really fun to rebuild, if you have HDD, but unfortunately I had an SSD. I got all the space back, but most of the data was gone, so I had to format the whole disk. Lost all my Wallpapers, Music I had ripped of my own cd's since 2013, some home movies and photos. Now I'm glad for DropBox, OneDrive and such, for they keep my precious memories incase I lose the hard copies. I had made some backups earlier, but still some things that can never be restored, were lost.

[@neomaster341]

Yeah, I do the 3-2-1 strategy: 3 decades of precious memories and irreplaceable files 2 TB Seagate drive from 2011 that stores everything 1 week spent crying when it dies

[@andrewt.5567]

Why do you hate yourself?

[@BobSentell]

I'm with Linus. Since I got out of doing video editing, there is almost no reason to keep data locally to my computer. Even when I take pictures on the good camera, I always import directly to my OneDrive folder so it syncs automatically to the cloud. With the exception of a few documents that are also in that folder for immediate back-up, I keep nothing locally. My SSD on my laptop is almost exclusively apps and games.

[@ChrisBurnes]

Another Dan praise comment. His smirky/serious tone and dry humor are what LMG really needed right now!!!

[@ImmuneToKnives]

Mark would be able to relate to my dad. He has a basement will with VHS Tapes. Filled with weddings, family footage, local events and so on. I would say 25 years worth of footage (he loved recording on his 2/3" shoulder camera). He retired a while back so he's slowly converting his footage into digital...

[@BushidoBrownSama]

Well atleast it's all SD & probably composite at that

[@Krydolph]

Andy is a real man! Real men don't take backup - they cry when it goes wrong!

[@AzziesPersonalRecordings]

I wish I could afford just a few drives for backups like this. Excellent video and backup planning.

[@ragavansuresh5035]

I love that Dan packages the straight man and the funny man in one. More of him please, I live for that dry wit.

[@ConfusedRaccoon]

We have less than 1 mbps upload speed and Back Blaze actually got in touch to say "it's not feasible for you to use our service, here's a refund." After my Mother-in-law spent over a year trying to back up all her photography stuff. I don't know how much it is but it only ever got to about 40% done.

[@Morpheus-em1el]

@Linus I can absolutely feel your need to backup Family photos. That's actually the most critical data i backup. I use my Nas/unRAID PC at home, 1Tb of onedrive storage and Photobooks. I would definitely cry if I'd loose it. BTW I really like this style of video! You guys are really great!

[@HyperLethalNova]

Lmao I always feel like no amount of storage will ever be enough...

[@STICKOMEDIA]

Same

[@albertkoscielniak7075]

I agree

[@bengrogan9710]

Shit will always accumulate to fill thr space available

[@Idiomatick]

120TB?

[@HyperLethalNova]

@@Idiomatick not even close lol

[@cordite7207]

Not working in visual media or recording my gaming these numbers are mind boggling. Im so glad I dont need that kinda storage

[@theauthenticsteve]

As a typical person with terrible backup practices, I did actually have an issue with a dead HDD with all our family photos and important data on it and no backup and Acronis came to my rescue. In my case I was able to freeze my HDD which gave me a small amount of time to copy the data using Acronis, unfortunately there was some regrettable loss due to corrupted files but Acronis saved us from an absolute loss. And now I feel terrible because my current backups are out of date and about the same as LMG staff in this video.

[@server642]

11:03 one of the first colour tv engineers; /engineer/ engineer making new ones or as a repair tech per his background? Either way, that’s a pretty cool thing to be muttered under one’s breath but not circled back to!

[@larry365]

LMG should offer a backup solution for all its staff. Would make a very good sponsored video.

[@3nertia]

That would be a good usage of a sponsor, in my opinion

[@redangel745]

This would take petabytes of storage, major cost for what?

[@larry365]

@@redangel745 Doesn't have to be unlimited storage does it? I'm assuming the majority if not all of the cost would be covered by LMGs biz model but I'd be interested why this particular project would be an exception. Reasons vary from simply for a video to an actual decent backup solution for LMG staff members.

[@sherlockmaverick]

I loved the "He's not storing Linux ISOs" reference

[@WhoTFstolemyname]

I like the 1660 for encoding linux isos.

[@goshtic9565]

I'm at 130TB (116TB used, 14TB free) and easily expected Linus to beat this (vs his personal storage, not his business), a little surprised he didn't. Though, if he wanted to, he can easily do it obviously. However, didn't expect Mark to blow it out of the competition with his combination of storages. All my CD storages is dead. I used to horde on CD solutions in the late 1990s. But never reached over 1000, but I would say I was getting there. Since I regularly purchases 100pks. Though, filesize content back then weren't as bloated compared to today. Images were 5kb to high quality 250kb and not 5mb to 25mb of today on average (of course can be even much bigger).

[@barongerhardt]

As someone that once backed up to cd and dvd for personal and professional backups. At my worst I had rows of spindles of disks. I maybe had 10k worth of dvds (single layer). We were just starting to move over to bluray when the business direction changed and it wasn't needed as much. As for what, we produced several CE devices that would get new OS images built once, or more, a week (per device) to be made available for manufacturing and/or installer updates. Any image I made I kept two copies of. Old versions were rarely looked at, but it did happen and was very useful when an issue was reported in the field to replicate and debug. The other major data source we had was video. We made a lot of digital video and original 3d animations. Cinema 4d and Maya projects could take days to render. The resulting size of raw or intermediate codexes was crazy. Once a project was done, we would rip the high quality footage off to data dvd and we might keep the compressed (encoded) versions on the SAN. Here it was a little more common to reuse old work. New projects with an old customer or even just reusing an old 3d model or render job would come up.

[@shiftypersona]

8:48 I'd like to point out and appreciate the fact that he went right to being able to give people their wedding videos because it's a good thing to do, and not because there's a potential future profit to be made. I appreciate these kind of people.

[@TurtleSauceGaming]

I'm up to 69tb of storage between 2 pcs. My oldest 10tb on my server PC has been replaced with a proper 16tb wd gold (giving me more space as well) and the 10tb external it replaced now sits as a backup. I've lost a 3tb drive, and 2 1tb drives in the past for that plex server pc. It was rough.

[@theonewhowatchesthewatchme2275]

Lets see the company servers would love to know if LMG itself implements these things and what the actual storage number is for LMG

[@SiD3WiNDR]

You know LTT makes a video about every single piece of hardware that comes through the door, right?

[@theonewhowatchesthewatchme2275]

@@SiD3WiNDR I know but still a vid putting it all together would be nice

[@BCProgramming]

@2:27: "Bit rot" doesn't happen with magnetic storage drives - not at any realistic, human timescale. When a drive is off, the drive can be damaged by being dropped or the mechanical parts could wear out or age out (eg. sticky rubber bumpers for the head actuator from 80's drives is pretty common). The data on the drive itself only really gets corrupted while in use. Errant writes, power outages, power spikes while writing/reading, that sort of stuff. Further, even if we allow for the idea that stray cosmic rays can "flip bits" on the drive, those bits aren't actually representative of the bits being read, they are the encoding scheme which includes error correction. You need to really screw up data to cause the error correction to mess up, far beyond what errant cosmic rays could do even over a few hundred years.

[@mcch1n]

n-no it does happen. you have to use the drive every once in a while

[@MeriaDuck]

I had data in a striped setup (mainly photos, irregularly backed up to NAS), linux filesystem. After a few years I found quite a lot of stuff in /lost+found one day... that was a scary reminder that it was a close call saving that data. Amongst the data I almost lost was the first moment my oldest kid saw the younger sibling. That data is now backed up off-site in a data center where I rent a vps plus storage.

[@daveg4417]

All of my data is currently sitting on a 32TB Synology NAS with about 50% space usage, so 16TB of data. That is 30 years of files, scanned photos, and all of my business. That's it for me. I have four backups of everything: backup mirror hard drive per system, external mirror hard drive per system, the Synology NAS, and the Google cloud. I have seven computers with their data.

[@migillett]

9:29 I had a Drobo 5D years ago and it was a nightmare. It would randomly refuse to turn on and would often disconnect in the middle of editing projects. I eventually sold it, built my own NAS and never looked back. Would definitely NOT recommend.

[@hatefulbox]

We had that at my old job haha, switched to Synology after that quit working for us one time haha

[@bandito241]

@@hatefulbox the Synology NAS did or the Dropo?

[@delgardner1753]

Actually I have a spreadsheet that I’ve been maintaining since like 97 of CDs and DVDs that has achieved maximum lines, in fairness there are a few duplicates but i have also never bothered to try and calculate the amount of data that actually is lol

[@kaldogorath]

I'm guessing you're using a very old spreadsheet format? In 2007, excel changed to over 1 million rows. Even 65K is an insane amount though

[@delgardner1753]

Was originally lotus because i was like 16 and broke as hell

[@delgardner1753]

@@TalesOfWar I stopped backing up to optical years ago and I’ve been migrating it away from for a while now, as time and budget permits. Not gonna lie I used to run a couple of different file servers in the day… ahh carracho and kdx lol

[@kaldogorath]

@@TalesOfWar Me too, but I don't have 100,000 CDs in one

[@KyberGaming47]

6:00 anyone else hear the coil whine near Tarans stream setup?

[@KyberGaming47]

It's super super high pitch, exactly 15562Hz @-30dbE or louder

[@ConnorHammond]

10:18 When Dan said "I mean, he probably got so much dopamine saving the day that he's never going to delete any of this." I laughed quite loudly.

[@everadept]

20:10 "A couple of the interviews didn't make it into the video but we backed them up anyways. So if you wanna see those" My brain: hack the Acronis server?

[@samiraperi467]

440TB is a lot for an individual. I have... maybe 50TB raw, 39TiB effective (raid overhead, file system, that kind of stuff)? In two big piles.

[@Holorum]

I never had problem with filling up TiBs upon TiBs with Linux ISOs. And regular backups of whole drives. It's easier to restore from.

[@samiraperi467]

@@Holorum Yeah, I save downloaded images, LAN is faster than internet. Hell, plugging a USB stick directly to the NAS is even faster. :D

[@H3LLGHA5T]

I have 5 TB, lol.

[@blackboxtechpodcast]

6:50 high pitched noise hurts my ear :((

[@guygalaxy420]

thank god you uploaded this, i almost decided to actually do my job

[@maxyp]

Yes Dan! Welcome to the team, 3rd video iv seen you in are you are so good on camera. Can’t wait to see more of you!

[@p.k.953]

I was waiting for this video since my whole life 😭👍🔥

[@de_stroyed]

Man, I'd put your LMG staff to shame. I have a 24 bay populated with 16TB gold WD drives. For around 400TB. I'm using 200TB of that right now. This should've been opened up to also rating community NAS servers too, would've been nice to include them. :)

[@richardlastname12]

What is lmg

[@de_stroyed]

@@richardlastname12 linus media group

[@יובלהרמן-ח2ד]

Now I feel strange for having my entire life's data all contained in one half tera drive... And if it would be destroyed I would probably just shrug and go on

[@griffethbarker613]

Really liking seeing more of Dan lately! Sounds like a fantastic add to the team.

[@mattjgraham]

Dan's dry humour is amazing! Jacob is right, he's becoming one of the LTT hosts. His extreme tech upgrade will be amazing!!

[@MarriedWithBackpacks]

Wow loving these videos with Dan! What a funny dude!