[PLUG-AV] Agenda: SSD thumbkey, was Re: Machine reinstalls

[Jason Nicholls]

Hey Nick,

The image is quite small and I find it's even fast on my ancient USB2 40GB
4200rpm external drive. Since we may end up with quite a few revisions 40GB
is a bit small, so a 128GB or larger capacity SSD should be plenty for the
images. I will donate my drive mentioned above to PLUG too which can act as
a backup/2nd for imaging purposes.

I think we should plan for the next AV workshop after the AWIA AGM.




On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Nick Bannon <nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> As discussed in our last committee meeting: we do have the budget to
> get some of our outstanding gear.
>
> I think the frst handy thing might be getting this imaging system rolled
> out - initial plan is to get some Clonezilla images on some decently
> fast SSDs. (I've been using some cheap 4GB USB thumb keys, it works, but
> the 2-4MB/sec writes do slow things down)
>
> I think we can use some fast storage for this right now - Jason, do we
> need a big SSD as well? Any preference, or a minimum size? or just enough
> for a few images, with the master copies on our spinning rust drives?
>
> From previous hacking session/busybee/workshop plans, we've got a number
> of things to work on...
>  * updating our software installs (in progress!);
>  * getting things to start automatically, perhaps not Mumble;
>  * status monitoring so it's more obvious when the DV streams or icecast
>    dies, or perhaps other sanity checks like the output DV file not
>    growing, disc space not going down, oggfwd dead, network traffic
>    flowing, audio SNR in sane bounds - audio present, not silent, not
>    staticy or daleky? If something fails, can we trigger a tally-light
>    style warning?
>  * switching machine roles in case of failure;
>  * reboxing/streamlining the setup of a camera ingest or mixer station
>    (the reboxing's helped, but there's a fair way to get to with things
> like:
>         http://lists.plug.org.au/pipermail/av/2012q3/000606.html
>         http://www.altronics.com.au/index.asp?area=item&id=T5052
>    )
>
> So: who's up for another busybee? Luke and I can make next Thursday
> (perhaps at Spacecubed?). Worst case, we take some extra time before
> the AWIA AGM recording the week after, Wed 20130807-1815.
>
> Nick.
>
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 07:47:42PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 04:17:24PM +0800, Nick Bannon wrote:
> > > Jason: you were after some image install media: these look pretty
> > > cost-effective, under $50:
> > >
> > > http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-usb-3-0-thumb-drive/
> > > 32 GB SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 Flash Drive
> > [...]
> >
> > In stock at MSY and PLE, including the 16GB version, which at $17 is
> >
>  probably even better value for us.
> >
> > http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=16gb+sandisk+extreme+usb
> > http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008AF384W
> > http://www.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B008AF384W
>
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Jason Nicholls
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