[11:55] <lazypower-travel> o/
[11:56] <lazypower-travel> ChinnoDog: you should be fine with a 4k sector drive
[11:56] <lazypower-travel> ChinnoDog: my WD Red 2.5 TB drives have been champs - i'm running them in a BTRFS raid setup
[14:45] <InHisName> ChinnoDog: you could fill it up with a bazillion text tweets
[16:01] <ChinnoDog> 2.5tb of plaintext would be an obscene amount of information.
[16:02] <ChinnoDog> lazypower-travel: It is a WD green. There are mixed reviews.
[16:54] <InHisName> How long to read 2.5 TB text as a speed reader ?   Say you could read avg of 5K words per min.
[16:58] <InHisName> at 10 bytes per word & space, punctuation, etc.   That'd be 50 K bytes / min.  It would only be 50 mega minutes to read it all.   Read only 16.667 hours a day, comes to 1,000 minutes a day.  So,,,, only 50,000 days to read the whole thing.
[18:31] <ChinnoDog> Average word size is 5 characters so that 10 bytes assumes UTF-16. More likely UTF-8 which will be closer to 5 bytes per word. Compress it and you will have 10x as much space.
[18:32] <ChinnoDog> No worries though. I don't have that much text. Maybe I can collect 2.5tb of lolcats.
[19:41] <adom> so i've been using mosh for my SSH connections rather than just ssh command. really liking it a lot.
[19:41] <adom> highly recommend checking it out.
[19:43] <adom> although its really useful for me just because walking upstairs from our storage/office room to the server room i lose wifi so my ssh sessions get cut off.
[19:44] <adom> so if you're not breaking connection often its not amazing i guess, but still very nice and easy to use.