Hard Drives

Video Editing Diary: One down and 1.7TB to go

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I got through my Crash Bandicoot livestream footage tonight! It looks like I have three videos worth to come out of that. Tomorrow I think I’ll tackle my Deadpool gameplay. I’m not entirely sure if that one will be salvageable. I remember we had a hard time riffing that one due to the fact that the game itself is self aware. If not I’ll have plenty of other footage to go through. I had a look at my main recording drive and found that 1.7TB of my 2TB drive has been consumed by video footage. A few more streams and I’ll have to pull out one of my other blank drives to continue recording. 😛 It’s one way to ensure I have plenty of content to work through, that’s fer sure. :melon:

I was a bit bummed this afternoon. My SSD arrived in the mail, and to my disappointment it was a 512GB module instead of the requested 1TB. I’ve already scheduled a return with Amazon. My Linux SSD install will just have to wait a bit longer, fortunately I have plenty to occupy my time as it is. :rick:

More data collecting… for safety

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I was handed another hard drive today by a fellow co-worker to recover data from. Thankfully I got all the important stuff off of it, as it seems to be dying at an alarming rate… gotta love those Seagate Barracuda’s. This and the other drive make for a nice quick $50 job that can buy me some inspiration for a good few months.

I’m thinking I’ll lay back in bed and play a play a little more Crash before I crash. I don’t have much time left do do much else, and I feel like I need a little play break before I become too dull. If I have time I’ll start on Episode 3 tomorrow.

A Game Of Musical Hard Drives

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I’ve been playing with 8TB of disc space today. I’ve been transferring my primary Steam drive since early this morning in alphabetical segments. I have almost every single part of my library installed on Windows (which makes it equally handy to just copy games over for quick Proton tests, life’s good being your own Steam game repository for other computers on the network) and it takes awhile to move 2TB of shit into a 4TB space, currently on the letter T as I write this.

I’m going to do a little digital house keeping and rearrange my drive structure, take out two of my 1TB drives and replace them with two 4TB’s, and just use 1TB drives for hot swapping or OS tests, any other mad act of science I can think of…

The rest of my day has been pretty quiet and mundane, the weather has been keeping me indoors sipping tea poured from my flowering teapot. Been awhile since I’ve had a flowering tea, its creme brulee green tea, highly recommend it.

Also would like to mention that I think I’ve confirmed that my crashing issues are the power supply. We plugged my Vega into my Dad’s gaming setup and it ran with flying colors. Played for well over an hour without a single crash or screen tear. He was happy for more than that reason though. He’s still on an x58 chipset and my RX Vega64 ran in his system without choking, apparently it is possible depending on the motherboard and BIOS you’re using. He updated his BIOS recently and it gave him UEFI support, which I think made it possible to run my GPU in his system. Yesterday was a good day all around, and it’ll be better when that damned power supply shows up, here’s to tomorrow I guess.

I also got some more of my Christmas shopping done. I’m thinking all that’s left will be gifts of the digital variety…