Yes, the level of difficulty getting it installed would vary but pretty much all your 4 disk nas boxes are Linux often on top of x86 with various methods to add 3rd party software. Mind you buying the equivalent to better hardware and using any of the number of nas software or simply your preferred Linux is cheaper and does not paint you into a corner. Mind you I would not buy or suggest a low end consumer synology device it does not have any facilities for bit rot detection they just released btrfs support in the 6x but only for higher end models and frankly they are extremely under powered especially for the price at the home/soho level.
And that proves you have no clue how cable modems works. Scaling bandwidth is a trade off between number of channels being used for internet (gear dependent) and how small you break down each zone. Yes the bandwidth is fixed as the cable modem standard only supports X - Y number of channels and thus bandwidth but it's a pretty simple engineering process to break things into increasingly smaller units to get more aggregate bandwidth in the last mile. It's not like a town has a limit to how much bandwidth the cable network can carry.
DSL does not even realy have that argument as it's not shared bandwidth from the DSLAM and the DSLAM should be well/cheaply connected.
It most defiantly is a matter of public debate and regulation as long as those providers have restricted competition. There are primarily 2 ways to get data, a cable and RF (freespace optics count as "cables") as long as those are monopolies or nearly so it's reasonable to regulate them.
Want company to be able to operate in a free market sure shift the last mile to technology neutral C/DWDM over fiber via muni's or a legacy provider. I'm talking at least one strand per house/business/apartment all the way back to the CO to allow multiple concurrent nearly arbitrary bandwidth per unit. Make the CO lease space and interconnects as a fixed rate.
Many concurrent last mile networks is a bad thing for the commons and should be discouraged (I've seen asia) but we need not be limited to a few ISP's in doing so.
As to the streaming is costing us to much, netflix is more than happy to provide cache boxes for the headends/CO's in effect making all this bandwidth come from the cheapest place possible right next to the cable head end/dslam. They are refusing to put them in because they are rent seeking to get paid twice for the same bits and/or view them as a competitor and looking to disadvantage them. This is a monopoly trying to leverage it's position to get a foothold into the market. It get especially ugly as they are all vertically integrating becoming content producers as well.
No extra machine and it's a few lines of config per drive. Being able to use mixed size drives to max capacity is a big advantage. The huge advantage is if you loose 2 drives (with single drive parity) you only loose the files on those drives each file and the directory structure to go with it is on each drive. Long term it's got power savings as each piece of media is read off a single drive meaning the rest can be spun down.
If your serving media files you realy do not want classic raid. Snapraid and the like are a much better option for a large volume of seldom/never modified storage. This way drives no used can spin down.
Yes you should be able to be a belligerent asshole on your property, this thing came into his space so he got rid of it. It's already settled case that it was OK for him to do so. Plenty of places to fly drones without bothering others. Hells I would be upset about drones that were going over the treeline with neighbors (thats 50+ ft high) if they were looking into my yard. Play with your toys responsibly or loose them.
Your assuming a 2.5 drive thats are getting to be a big space eater in notebooks and they are moving to pcie for speed in the m2 format. It's a bit harder when it's a pcie drive.
Encrypted data vs transmission they may well be using https/tls but I'm talking about real crypto where the 3rd party does not have the keys to decrypt it mealy passing the blob along.
Programmers tend to be lazy. Getting two devices connected is hard with the piles of nat, putting everything through a 3rd node thats got a fixed IP makes things far easier.
I work with and build them all the time. Mind you I realy no longer think you can get any complex service into 5+ 9's without the application being part of the solution, reliability is not a bolt on thing it's baked into the design.
The story is laughable, fault fans, buggy firmware on the nexus 3k's. Those are TOR switches should be extremely easy to replace and always used in redundant setups. They probably got suckered into VPC and similar, guess what I dont care what they say all stacks share a single failure domain, dont get me wrong they are great but you need at least A+B stacks. These guys cited cable issues, it realy sounds like PHB;s trying to blame the vendor because they picked the lowest bid not the right one and failed to test every failure mode they could come up with before going into production. 7 9's work is hard and your never going to just bolt it onto somebody else's design.
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Yes, the level of difficulty getting it installed would vary but pretty much all your 4 disk nas boxes are Linux often on top of x86 with various methods to add 3rd party software. Mind you buying the equivalent to better hardware and using any of the number of nas software or simply your preferred Linux is cheaper and does not paint you into a corner. Mind you I would not buy or suggest a low end consumer synology device it does not have any facilities for bit rot detection they just released btrfs support in the 6x but only for higher end models and frankly they are extremely under powered especially for the price at the home/soho level.
And that proves you have no clue how cable modems works. Scaling bandwidth is a trade off between number of channels being used for internet (gear dependent) and how small you break down each zone. Yes the bandwidth is fixed as the cable modem standard only supports X - Y number of channels and thus bandwidth but it's a pretty simple engineering process to break things into increasingly smaller units to get more aggregate bandwidth in the last mile. It's not like a town has a limit to how much bandwidth the cable network can carry.
DSL does not even realy have that argument as it's not shared bandwidth from the DSLAM and the DSLAM should be well/cheaply connected.
It most defiantly is a matter of public debate and regulation as long as those providers have restricted competition. There are primarily 2 ways to get data, a cable and RF (freespace optics count as "cables") as long as those are monopolies or nearly so it's reasonable to regulate them.
Want company to be able to operate in a free market sure shift the last mile to technology neutral C/DWDM over fiber via muni's or a legacy provider. I'm talking at least one strand per house/business/apartment all the way back to the CO to allow multiple concurrent nearly arbitrary bandwidth per unit. Make the CO lease space and interconnects as a fixed rate.
Many concurrent last mile networks is a bad thing for the commons and should be discouraged (I've seen asia) but we need not be limited to a few ISP's in doing so.
As to the streaming is costing us to much, netflix is more than happy to provide cache boxes for the headends/CO's in effect making all this bandwidth come from the cheapest place possible right next to the cable head end/dslam. They are refusing to put them in because they are rent seeking to get paid twice for the same bits and/or view them as a competitor and looking to disadvantage them. This is a monopoly trying to leverage it's position to get a foothold into the market. It get especially ugly as they are all vertically integrating becoming content producers as well.
No extra machine and it's a few lines of config per drive. Being able to use mixed size drives to max capacity is a big advantage. The huge advantage is if you loose 2 drives (with single drive parity) you only loose the files on those drives each file and the directory structure to go with it is on each drive. Long term it's got power savings as each piece of media is read off a single drive meaning the rest can be spun down.
Unless the door to door time is faster dont bother. I can suck carbon out of the air I can not make more time.
If your serving media files you realy do not want classic raid. Snapraid and the like are a much better option for a large volume of seldom/never modified storage. This way drives no used can spin down.
Though hooking usenet up to a e3 instance could be amusing.
Is age realy used or is looks? As it relates to the entertainment industry it's looks not age that matter.
Yes you should be able to be a belligerent asshole on your property, this thing came into his space so he got rid of it. It's already settled case that it was OK for him to do so. Plenty of places to fly drones without bothering others. Hells I would be upset about drones that were going over the treeline with neighbors (thats 50+ ft high) if they were looking into my yard. Play with your toys responsibly or loose them.
Instant background check or suddenly it's a 6 month wait for the check.
Your assuming a 2.5 drive thats are getting to be a big space eater in notebooks and they are moving to pcie for speed in the m2 format. It's a bit harder when it's a pcie drive.
Encrypted data vs transmission they may well be using https/tls but I'm talking about real crypto where the 3rd party does not have the keys to decrypt it mealy passing the blob along.
Seen a modern programmer, they look at UDP like it's from outer space.
That falls under lazyness, creating a secure channel via a third party is not that hard.
Programmers tend to be lazy. Getting two devices connected is hard with the piles of nat, putting everything through a 3rd node thats got a fixed IP makes things far easier.
It's cheaper to get a color laser with a duplexer than those inkjets. I'll take a nice laser printer anyday.
Point being that it's entirely a marketing ploy, the payback on the extra 400 may well never happen vs 3rd part carts in $50 printer.
You realy think it costs anywhere near 450 to make a fsking inkjet printer?
Funny brother, the company that wouldn't scan when a cart was low not playing games.
It's ok every crappy PA comes with BT now.
Especially considering that it's not the old days, 50c a mbs is pretty easy to get for transit.
I'll take trill over full stacking anyday, but I still think of trill as a single failure domain.
I work with and build them all the time. Mind you I realy no longer think you can get any complex service into 5+ 9's without the application being part of the solution, reliability is not a bolt on thing it's baked into the design.
The story is laughable, fault fans, buggy firmware on the nexus 3k's. Those are TOR switches should be extremely easy to replace and always used in redundant setups. They probably got suckered into VPC and similar, guess what I dont care what they say all stacks share a single failure domain, dont get me wrong they are great but you need at least A+B stacks. These guys cited cable issues, it realy sounds like PHB;s trying to blame the vendor because they picked the lowest bid not the right one and failed to test every failure mode they could come up with before going into production. 7 9's work is hard and your never going to just bolt it onto somebody else's design.
Going into space is not safe, yet you will have people lining up at your door to do it.
So have the Chineese run the test in secret? NASA is far to risk adverse.