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  • A few years back, I was installing Arch on an external hard disk. I was basically done, so I powered off the system, but I forgot to unmount the hard disk.

    Then I tried to boot to the OS on my computer, which was also Arch, and it got stuck at the BIOS splash screen. No luck rebooting.

    I remember panicking (because that was my only machine) and asking my computer teacher what to do and he also had no idea.

    I ended up manually unplugging and replugging the hard disk inside the case and it worked. To this day I still don’t know what went wrong.

















  • I stream Splatoon 3 for 2 hours every day and I record higher quality VODs alongside. I keep a lot of the VODs in my storage.

    I record at 1080p 60fps 9000kbps with H265. 2 hours of that takes up 8.8GB, for simplicity we will say it’s 9GB.

    The 9000kbps is enough for a bitrate-heavy game like Splatoon 3, so I’d say 12000kbps is enough for you.

    We can scale it up to your settings by (1440/1080)^2 * (165/60) * (12000/9000) = 6.52 (worst case, but H265 should reduce that a little bit). The scale factor mainly comes from the increased FPS and bitrate.

    I’m currently looking at storing a year of footage in a 4TB HDD (9GB*365=3.3TB), so as an estimation, you need 7 of those.

    There are better codecs though, such as AV1, but my GPU doesn’t support AV1 hardware encoding and software encoding would cause too much lag, so I didn’t use it.