Are you Caning Your Sky Fibre Connection?

[thebatfink]

I came from BE with a 12mb connection so it was always fairly reasonable anyway. With that being truely unlimited I never worried about constantly downloading and I take the same attitude with my new fibre. If I want to download something wether its 100mb or 60gb, I just download it at full speed I don't download for downloads sake or probably download more than I used too.. its just nice to get it quicker.

One of the great things I do do alot more of now is remote connecting to my machines from work etc. i also use FTP far more. Especially for things like hosting offsite storage for my parents photo collections etc. the extra upload is helping for that. Upgraded yesterday to Pro so I expect to be doing more and more different things.

If I had 2TB hdd's coming out my ears then I might utilise it more. But overall usage is probably same, but then it was heavy usage before (I suspect BT wouldn't like me!)

[gorebrush]

use thundernews, get fullspeed on my 40mb at all times... think gorebrush maxs his fibre pro on newsgroups

I'm with Newsdemon and max it 7.3MB/s all day long

[hughandsam]

If my sums are right, then gorebrush is using between 4.4TB (if connection fully utilised between 9-5/weekdays) and 18TB (if connection fully utilized 24/7)!!

[gorebrush]

Yep, I came up with 18-19TB a month too.

My server only has 2TB in it though, so I'm kinda limited that way. Reminds me, I need to RMA a 2TB disk actually My RAID-5 array got broken up and I ended up with 2x2TB in RAID-1 instead.

Need to get a replacement. Might go back to RAID-5 for 4TB goodness though...

EDIT: I don't actually use my connection 24/7 like that - I meant that I can get 7.3MB/s no matter what time of day (irrespective of congestion)

[hughandsam]

I did wonder - 18TB is enough space for 700-1000 uncompressed blu-ray rips...

[s1ndr0me]

@gorebrush - if your RAID is a software linux job. then you'll need to run a cron job to keep your disks in order. What kills the raid is un-reported bad blocks/sectors. then when a disk fails and it tries to rebuild its self on a fresh disk it finds the problems that were swept under the carpet and all of a sudden the RAID is fubar

echo check >> /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_action

watch -n 0.5 cat /proc/mdstat

change the X to MD0 or whatever your array is

[gorebrush]

Thanks for the tip!

My RAID5 ran fine for ages... what killed it was the disk completely died

I was planning to break the array up anyway, so I was able to get all the data off.

[s1ndr0me]

No worries, we ran a freenas for a bit. Built up our collection only for the whole ZFS to go **** up. Ended rebuilding using linux instead of freenas as any problems are better documented. FreeBSD is a bit of a mare. I kinda want the NAS to break now just so we can download the lot again, really fast

[gorebrush]

I love the idea of ZFS. I tried setting it up and I actually got a FreeBSD VM running serving up a ZFS array, and I installed another VM onto it, but it was far too over complicated for what I needed!

[andrewjr]

Yep, I came up with 18-19TB a month too.

My server only has 2TB in it though, so I'm kinda limited that way. Reminds me, I need to RMA a 2TB disk actually My RAID-5 array got broken up and I ended up with 2x2TB in RAID-1 instead.

Need to get a replacement. Might go back to RAID-5 for 4TB goodness though...

EDIT: I don't actually use my connection 24/7 like that - I meant that I can get 7.3MB/s no matter what time of day (irrespective of congestion)

18TB a month, what the hell are you downloading?