Fileserver Fiasco III

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More major changes to the fileserver! Splitting apart the boot and data drives, converting the big 8TB data drive over to ZFS, and setting up deduplication on a pair of SSDs.
Shoutout to ‪@David_Phantom‬ for the SSDs! Thank you!
Recording Date: Sunday, November 19, 2023 - Thursday, November 23, 2023
Processing Date: Saturday, March 02, 2024
Render Date: Saturday, March 02, 2024
Upload Date: Saturday, March 02, 2024
Publication Date: Sunday, March 03, 2024
Camera(s): Sony HDR-CX220
SD Card: Samsung U3 128GB MicroSDHC
Screen Recorder(s): OBS
Editing Software: Kdenlive
Other Thoughts: This was the culmination of several weeks' worth of effort, trialing ZFS on a test drive and figuring out exactly how I wanted to configure it, as well as trialing BTRFS on a different test drive and figuring out how I wanted that configured as well.
The reasons that I did this were not only to bring 15 years of disk usage growth under control, but to also greatly extend the time between having to spend nearly $1000 on a pair of new 16TB hard drives (both internal and external). At the time that this video was recorded, I was in the midst of migrating several external hard drives that my mom used for her graphics designing stuff over to the fileserver so I could properly back them up, and eventually clean-install Windows 11 on her computer.
Prior to me migrating those external drives to the fileserver, they were never backed up properly because of a combination of a lack of available time to back them up, too little drive space to back them up, and also the fact that the data was spread across no less than four drives.
Additionally, the install of Windows 7 on her computer was getting to be rather old and flaky, to the point that the antivirus software that we use had completely up and disappeared twice, each time with no apparent reason or traces as to why. When something would break on that Windows install, it was progressively harder to fix, and I was afraid that something would catastrophically break and force an immediate Windows reinstall, rather than me reinstalling Windows on my (and my mom's) own time. Thankfully, I was able to reinstall Windows on our own time, and not on its time.
In the time that has passed since I recorded this video, I have migrated the remaining hard drives to the fileserver and successfully clean-installed Windows 11 on mom's computer. Everything is running well and is also properly backed up.
Eventually, I'll send the motherboard off to be recapped, as it needs it in the near-future. That will more than likely happen in early August, as there's about a week's worth of time in August that I can take the fileserver down for severe maintenance and servicing. I'll service the power supply soon and remove the tan glue, and I'll probably make a video on that (and the recapping) when I do so.
On a completely unrelated note, this video takes the cake for "Biggest Project File", with its project file weighing in at 422.1kB. Kdenlive takes a whopping 17 seconds to load it, and when I was finished editing, I freed up at least 10GB of RAM when I closed Kdenlive. This video took about 33 minutes to render, and the final file size came out to 3.3GB, which is pretty good for a nearly 90 minute long video.
Anyways, that's all that I've got to say for now, so I'll stop rambling in a description box and get a move-on with this thing.

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