Kero is back [now with uploads]

[derobert]

Its finally time to install the new hard disks. This weekend, Kero will be completely offline for an upgrade. Thus over half of the videos — the newer ones — will not have their local downloads available starting sometime Friday afternoon (eastern time).

As of now, FTP on Kero has been stopped; you will not be able to upload new videos. (You may still confirm ones that you've already uploaded, though that will be turned off sometime today, too.)

After Kero is reinstalled, hopefully Monday morning, some recent videos will be unavailable; they will be restored over the coming week. Uploads will be re-enabled once that is complete.

Thankfully, this will give us enough disk space that we won't run out again for a very long time.

EDIT: Kero has been upgraded and placed back in the server facility. Downloads are working again, however uploads will be down until derobert has a chance to get the upload system implemented.

EDIT 2: Uploads are finally back.

[EvaFan]

Just curious but how big of an upgrade were we able to afford after all the extra donations people gave for it?

[derobert]

I think we got 1.5TB drives. Have to double-check that.

Anyway, I'm thinking of going with the following config:

RAID-6 (Linux md), 10 disks + 2 hot spares ⇒ 12TB space
Use ext4 for the file system. Supposedly its production-ready now, and fsck on ext3 would be a day-long affair. (Though this will require a newer kernel than Debian ships, which will be a slight PITA)

Should result in somewhere around 10.5 TB of usable disk space. Could also go with only one hot spare, then it'd be around 12 TB of usable disk space.

We're currently using a little shy of 3 TB of disk space. So either way, it'll last us a long time.

Any comments?

[EDIT: Actually, they're 1TB drives. I'm leaning towards RAID-6 + 1 hot spare. I used the Seagate serial # check thingy, and it says we're OK]

[OtakuForLife]

Wish that was my hard drive could download every bit torrent thing I ever wanted

[WC Annihilus]

These the Seagate drives? If so, just to be sure, you're aware of the firmware issues/fixes surrounding them?

[derobert]

These the Seagate drives? If so, just to be sure, you're aware of the firmware issues/fixes surrounding them?

If they're Seagate, which firmware issues should I be on the lookout for? This one http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/20 ... x-for.html ?

[jasper-isis]

Oh good, you're already aware of that. I remember finding out about it a while ago, but then I lost the link and kept forgetting to look for it again.

I thought we had decided to go with 1TB drives rather than 1.5? (There were some reports that 1.5TB drives didn't jive well in RAIDs.) No matter, I'm sure you know what you're doing. Thanks for finally going through with this.

[WC Annihilus]

These the Seagate drives? If so, just to be sure, you're aware of the firmware issues/fixes surrounding them?

If they're Seagate, which firmware issues should I be on the lookout for? This one http://technologyexpert.blogspot.com/20 ... x-for.html ?

Aye, that's the one

[derobert]

Yeah, apparently no one noticed the edit... We actually have the 1TB drives.

[WC Annihilus]

But are they Seagates? There were actually firmware issues with several of the 7200.11 series drives. Be sure to check the model numbers etc though, as there were reports of 500GB drives getting bricked with people updating unnecessarily