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[682.50 --> 684.46] And I thought that was the way to go. |
[685.02 --> 690.40] Because I consider myself to be somebody who really optimizes for performance. |
[690.90 --> 691.54] You know, I like it. |
[691.64 --> 693.52] I like everything to be as fast as possible. |
[693.52 --> 698.24] Well, yeah, that's why I'll get a laptop with 64 gigs of RAM. |
[698.32 --> 702.70] So that way I know that three or four times a year I'm running five or six VMs at once. |
[702.70 --> 703.94] I'm going to have a fast system. |
[703.94 --> 706.98] And so I kind of went big. |
[706.98 --> 711.70] I went with a 12 terabyte array setup and an x86 box. |
[712.22 --> 725.60] And the issue immediately became the power usage because I'm in a very restricted environment where I am trying to run off solar and not use generator as much as possible, especially with the price of fuel getting higher. |
[725.60 --> 731.06] And so I pretty quickly pivoted to the Raspberry Pi after I asked myself a few basic questions. |
[731.16 --> 732.70] And this is what I want to convey to you all. |
[733.00 --> 734.64] How much performance do you really need? |
[735.90 --> 737.90] Initially, I would have said all of the performance. |
[737.90 --> 744.86] But then when I started thinking about it, I thought, well, do I really need 12 terabytes of videos here? |
[745.06 --> 759.54] Or could I offload some of those videos and ISO images and pictures and documents to somewhere where it's much cheaper to run that storage and then just cache two terabytes of local stuff? |
[759.70 --> 762.14] What's like the two terabytes of stuff I really needed? |
[762.14 --> 772.38] And then once I kind of started thinking about that, I realized, you know, if I optimized on my TV end, I actually don't even need GPU decoding support. |
[772.74 --> 775.74] And then all of a sudden, a Raspberry Pi is looking pretty good. |
[775.94 --> 786.56] If I know I have hardware decoding support in my set top box, then I just took a whole category of requirements away from my server box. |
[786.74 --> 788.68] And I started thinking about that a little bit more. |
[788.76 --> 790.64] I thought, well, how fast do I really need my CPU? |
[790.64 --> 792.08] How many applications am I running? |
[792.14 --> 795.64] And I threw up a Raspberry Pi 4 and I threw my applications on there. |
[796.26 --> 799.92] And I was blown away by the fact that I found it reasonable. |
[800.14 --> 810.92] And when I use my home assistant system or when I'm using Rantio or whatever you call it or sync thing generally, I can say, yeah, I think I could stand for it to be a tad faster. |
[811.82 --> 821.36] But my expectations are more about nailing that power envelope and less about nailing that performance envelope now. |
[821.36 --> 830.78] And so I'm perfectly willing to just have a slightly, slightly sluggish home assistant setup for just total, total optimization on the power side. |
[831.14 --> 832.88] And it was just a series of questions like that. |
[832.96 --> 834.48] I went through like, OK, how much storage do I need? |
[834.54 --> 835.60] How fast do I need this to be? |
[835.68 --> 837.26] What services am I actually going to use? |
[837.26 --> 841.94] Do I need to optimize for Grafana and Node Red? |
[842.06 --> 847.60] Do I really need to use those things or could I just get away with just home assistant and built in automations? |
[847.60 --> 854.06] And I kind of just decided simpler and lower power was better. |
[854.56 --> 862.94] And then I realized there's also all these benefits of the fact that because they're $35 computers, I can literally have a spec for spec spare sitting in a drawer. |
[863.60 --> 865.42] I can just pop right in. |
[865.98 --> 867.60] And so then I was like, well, all right. |
[867.68 --> 872.16] And I don't care if they melt, you know, changed all kinds of stuff at that point. |
[872.16 --> 883.20] But initially it was really just totally reassessing what are my actual performance requirements and being really honest with myself and realizing my family doesn't care if the stuff's not screaming fast, too. |
[884.00 --> 887.16] We were talking about this just before we pressed the record button. |
[887.76 --> 893.40] And, you know, let's take that 10 year lifespan of the Pi as a great example. |
[893.96 --> 898.60] You think about how capable an x86 box was 10 years ago. |
[898.60 --> 902.48] And you think about where the Raspberry Pi 4 is now as a line in the sand. |
[902.68 --> 905.88] And, you know, the Pi 4 is, what, two years old at this point? |
[906.42 --> 912.02] So it's already a generation behind what the Pi 5 may or may not be. |
[913.22 --> 919.52] And I look at what that x86 box gave me and, you know, the size of hard drives. |
[919.64 --> 925.92] You know, I can get 16, 18, 20 terabytes in a single external drive now. |
[925.92 --> 930.56] That used to be my entire server more than 10 years ago. |
[930.94 --> 936.06] And, yes, I know video sizes are bigger and et cetera, et cetera, and what have you. |
[936.12 --> 941.50] But this speaks to your point, Chris, is that there is a cost to everything. |
[941.50 --> 949.86] And if you want to hoard all the TV shows that God created, there is a cost to that. |
[950.00 --> 953.56] You know, not just in the number of platters that you need to have spinning, |
[953.98 --> 959.66] but obviously the energy required to have those platters spinning 24-7. |
[959.88 --> 964.28] So, you know, you can save quite a bit just by doing things like S3 Sleep with your server. |
[964.28 --> 969.64] You know, obviously if you do that, you have to bear in mind there's going to be some latency |
[969.64 --> 974.34] when you press play in Plex or Kodi or whatever it is, |
[974.66 --> 978.40] whilst the server wakes up and realizes what's going on and degrogs itself. |
[979.36 --> 983.98] But, you know, the other thing you could do is try starting small, small improvements. |
[984.14 --> 990.04] Like I said before, change your hard drive density or do things like hard drive spin down, |
[990.04 --> 993.06] that kind of thing, and just do the low-hanging fruit first, |
[993.20 --> 995.84] see what difference that makes, and then optimize from there. |
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[1003.60 --> 1005.46] and you go there to support this here show. |
[1005.68 --> 1007.34] So what is Linode? |
[1007.46 --> 1009.80] Well, I'm glad you asked. |
[1009.98 --> 1011.50] It is fast, reliable cloud hosting. |
[1011.80 --> 1012.96] You've got to go try it for yourself. |
[1013.06 --> 1017.18] It's what we use for everything we've built that's hosted in the cloud for the last two and a half years. |
[1017.18 --> 1020.36] You want to try something like a research project? |
[1020.48 --> 1022.46] You want to learn something, push a machine? |
[1023.10 --> 1024.46] Linode systems are great for that. |
[1024.70 --> 1025.44] They're super fast. |
[1025.52 --> 1027.98] They've got 40-gigabit connections coming into them hypervisors, |
[1028.08 --> 1030.64] and they've got 11 data centers all over this here world. |
[1031.10 --> 1032.82] So you can pick something close to you. |
[1033.56 --> 1035.84] And then, I mean, if you're a crazy cat, and why not? |
[1036.14 --> 1038.28] Because you're rolling in there with $100 in credit, |
[1038.54 --> 1041.08] you can try out their new MVME PCIe storage. |
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[1045.42 --> 1047.48] 40-gigabit connections to the hypervisor, |
[1047.98 --> 1050.60] AMD epic CPUs for the high-end CPU systems. |
[1050.72 --> 1052.18] You see what I'm saying about performance? |
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[1054.22 --> 1056.12] So you've got to go check it out if you're a performance hound. |
[1056.50 --> 1058.16] But if you just want something straightforward, |
[1058.60 --> 1059.90] maybe you're not a large business. |
[1060.00 --> 1061.30] Maybe you don't need a ton of performance. |
[1061.42 --> 1063.50] Maybe you just have, I don't know, |
[1063.72 --> 1065.16] a portfolio you want to run online, |
[1065.26 --> 1067.76] or a GitLab instance, for goodness sake, |
[1068.28 --> 1069.08] like a good lad. |
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[1072.80 --> 1074.22] Systems are like $5 a month. |
[1074.22 --> 1078.52] Pricing's 30% to 50% cheaper than those big duopoly hyperscalers |
[1078.52 --> 1080.56] that want to lock you into their cray-cray platform |
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[1082.70 --> 1083.86] They don't do that over at Linode. |
[1084.36 --> 1085.60] And if you ever need any help, |
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