Engineering data consolidation efforts

Since I built my Ryzen 5950X system, and the 12900K system, and then had to completely disassemble the 12900K system, and then built another Ryzen 5950X system whilst arguing with Asus, I was in the middle of a data consolidation effort for all of my engineering data from the various projects that I've worked on over the years.

Today marks the day where the first pass of this data consolidation effort has completed and I ended up saving almost 14 TB of storage space.

It feels nice, and I get a sense of accomplishment as the data is being written to tape right now.

I can't believe that it's taken me like about 6 months to finish this data consolidation effort.

At some points during the process of unpacking, packing, and then re-packing the data, both Ryzen 5950Xs and also the Intel Core i7-4930K that's in the headnode was oversubscribed 3:1 when it was processing the data. That just seems pretty crazy to me because that's also a little bit of an indication as to how much work the CPUs had to do to process and re-process the data.

Not to mention, my poor, poor hard drives, that have been working so hard throughout all of this.