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[Nicolas Sahlqvist <nicco77 AT gmail.com>]

I have a copy of the content on the 500GB drive on a 2TB, but I am starting to need the space in a couple of weeks..

- Nicolas

Den 27 feb 2014 12:26 skrev "Leif-Jöran Olsson" <ljo AT fripost.org>:

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The 500GB 2.5-drive belongs to me. I have to return to you for the other
questions though.

Cheers,
Leif-Jöran

Den 2014-02-27 12:21, Grégoire skrev:
> Hello everyone,
>
> We need to discuss data storage for the association.
>
> Here is the current situation, to the best of my knowledge:
> - we have a 1TB USB hard drive, which is 98% full with footage from
> 2011, 2012 & 2013.
> - We have the VPS with the web site which stores some files in git repos
> and in the wiki (pdfs and other small files)
> - There is some old videos and other files on ffkp's NAS, which we also
> use to publicly serve the ogv version of the videos.
>
> (I also have a black, 500GB 2.5 inches hard drive on which I
> received this year's videos which no one has claimed yet and I have no
> idea who that belongs to.)
>
> A few things that could be improved:
> - ownership: the fact that we don't own the server of the videos means
> that we may loose it if ffkp needs it (more on that below)
> - data safety: there is not much redundancy and protection against disk
> failure or other potential problems
> - accessibility: it'd be nice if we could upload thy the video footage
> directly from the conference and give everyone access to them. This was
> the main source of delay for publishing the videos this year.
> - archiving and sharing: uploading and updating files on the wiki is a
> bit cumbersome, and git repositories don't play well with big binary
> files
>
> Now, ffkp, who owns the NAS from which we serve the ogv version of the
> videos, would like to use it for other purposes. But since the hw is
> already a few years and since we are currently using it, they suggested
> to sell it to us for a reduced price (2000:- compared to approximately
> 9000:- when they bought it)
>
> The specs are: readynas ultra 4 bays, atom CPU, 1gb ram with 3x2TB
> drives (~4TB available in RAID)
>
> I think that, although it doesn't solve everything, this is a convenient
> partial solution, as almost everything is already set-up, and a
> relatively cheap one. But we may prefer to buy a newer model or maybe
> there is an other alternative?
>
> One other possibility would be to decide that we don't want to keep the
> raw videos once we published the ogv file. We would still need somewhere
> to host the encoded videos from but it would drastically reduce the
> required storage space.
>
>
> /ǵ
>
>
>
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