So far I’ve been following recommendations from this person: https://old.reddit.com/r/NewMaxx/comments/16xhbi5/ssd_guides_resources_ssd_help_post_your_questions/

Plenty of them on various sites, like this one I found yesterday.

Try dmraid, it’s been designed to take over various formats of hardware RAID cards.

I’m pretty sure just like transport containers were standardized by ISO to make transport easier, game boxes should be standardized to fit in Kallax.

As of May 2023, 65% of the Ukrainian refugees that left Ukraine starting February 2022 and decided to stay in Poland found a job—so, within around a year, as opposed to 5-6 years as in the article. Cultural similarity here is likely making it much, much simpler. For those who want to read more about the situation of Ukrainian refugees in Poland, this report by Polish National Bank (Narodowy Bank Polski, NBP) might be useful: https://nbp.pl/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Raport_Imigranci_EN.pdf (in English!), there is a lot of interesting details.

A lack of planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on mine.

Though I kind of think Japanese grammar cannot express this thought and the closest you can get is Ganbatte!

Good question! I quickly found this table, though this is yearly statistics only: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=3510019201

Yep, it’s EU. File transfer shouldn’t be bad if your files are large, though it’s best if you tested it first—it might depend on your ISP’s peering and your prefered transfer protocols/tooling. Whether it’s reputable for your purpose, you probably have to do your own research. Also, remember that the offer I mentioned would only be equivalent in durability to a single-box RAID5 for your purposes, so not exactly equivalent to Google’s.

There’s Jottacloud with unlimited storage for 10 EUR/month, but they gradually slow down after first 5 TB. 30 TB might be a bit too much. There’s Hetzner with their dedicated 4×10TB machines for ~52 EUR, you could do RAID5 and have somewhat redundant 30 TB, at the cost of self-managing a dedicated machine. There are several providers doing regular S3 (which you can take advantage of with tools like rclone) with decent redundancy for 4-5 USD/TB + egress. For high-value data you should be probably spending more than 100 USD/month for 30TB in the cloud, or invest in actual hardware. Do you need hot access to this dataset, or is a cold storage archive enough?

I found it crazy useful to study old, established, mature technologies, like relational databases, storage, low-level networking stack, optimizing compilers, etc. Much more valuable than learning the fad of the year. For example, consider studying internals of Postgresql if you’re using it.

Storj does it at 7 USD/TB. And there are providers that technically provide unlimited bandwidth, like Hetzner’s dedicated servers; they still have some abuse limits, but even working within the limits should make it much cheaper. This means custom engineering though.

I’ve seen this text when it was published, and it was pretty eye-opening at the time. I liked it so much I’ve set a quarterly reminder to go back to it and review where did I manage to improve.

I’m not a person who’d be loyal to a brand. Yet Motorola consistently produces devices that turn out to be the best trade-offs (price to functionality) for me. And, so far, all these devices were pretty durable as well, though it’s not that I really put smartphones into lots of use. That’s all I can say.