Artemis DevLog CH7
Added 2025-05-12 20:48:07 +0000 UTCHey, everyone!
The render box is finally up and running. Just in time too as the weather is already well into the 90s in my area. I had to do some minor adjustments on the loop order, but the quick-disconnects really shined and made it a breeze to do. Making regular maintenance less of a chore.
I found my external drive that had my sound effects library which added about 3TB to my asset database. I had to increase the number of drives in the pool to fit the extra terabitties in my drive pool, because since I configured them in the JBOD with TrueNAS as RAIDZ2. It means it required more drives to maintain the resilience of my data that I structured. But there's a ton of sound effects this library has, so worth keeping on the NAS. For those who remember my post on World Backup Day... just a friendly reminder that Raid is not a backup. Be sure to add something like Backblaze for off-site backups.
On Chapter 7 front, things are going smoothly. When I'm taking a break from writing or hit the occasional writer's block, I'm working on locations featured in this chapter. Some locations are going to be custom assets imported in. I'm also experimenting with some code. Chapter 1 featured some cool things with the music player and I hope to bring those features back with Chapter 7's release. That includes restoring DJ Kink Studio in the main menu.
That'll wrap it up for last week!
I had hoped to have the artwork featured in this devlog done by CH6's release. But I forgot to follow up with the artist, with how crazy everything was leading up to that. But something fun I wanted to do and share with everyone. You can find the 3600x2700 file in the attachments of this post.
Artwork by Cheung Ngo Chau
-digi.B
Comments
I always used RAID6 in my home HW RAID setup, which meant 50% capacity hit for 4 drives, performance hit for double chksum calculations,etc but provides great resilience and with write-caching using RAID controllers 8GB DDR4 ECC buffer can sustain large sequential reads/writes. For TrueNAS its exactly RAIDZ2, but comes with caveats, such as OpenZFS stability and nuances(RAM usage, so at-least ECC DIMMs is a must have), Unlike HW card with a BBU, it relies on FS code and journaling to provide powerloss/freezes tolerance, stability of OS kernel,etc - Much more variables. Yet, there are not much options for DIY NAS - TrueNAS and Unraid, so ZFS it is. I'm on my own project of self built NAS with AMD Epyc 9015 CPU, 96GB Registered DDR5(6 channel) and 5x24TB HDD drives over LSI 9500 16i HBA+dedicated SSD for ZFS SLOG. Waiting for MCIO->U.3 cable capable of PCI-E 5.0 speeds now as cache SSD is not detected now(Unless the drive is dead... Hmm...)
vityan
2025-05-13 11:35:12 +0000 UTCThanks for the DevLog!ππ
JEH
2025-05-13 10:58:41 +0000 UTC
