From 4324451299709a4a3ddb1b6d80cf02bbaaa85871 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dale Glass Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:35:43 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update readme --- README.md | 21 ++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0ff4db48b..5137a4d03 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,13 +2,32 @@ These are files saved from the old (3D) High Fidelity AWS S3 buckets. This data is here for organizing and curating into something useful for the derived Open Source projects. +## Use a fast connection and an SSD! + +This is a huge repository. Cloning it is easily a day-long affair, if not several. + +The primary server (daleglass.dev) is hosted on a 1000 Mbps connection, but depending on where you are and how busy the server is, that speed may not be possible. Approximate download times: + +* 10 Mbps: 5 days. +* 100 Mbps: 12 hours. +* 300 Mbps: 4 hours. +* 1000 Mbps: 1.2 hours. + + +Use a NVMe if you can. + +This needs 1.3 TB of free space at a bare minimum. After you're done downloading around 530GB, git is going to check it out, taking ~600 GB more. Just checking it out will take at the very least an hour on a hard disk, probably several (8 hours according to one report) + +If you don't have the space, my recommendation would be to buy a cheap 2 TB NVMe, put it into an enclosure, and connect it by USB C. That will save a whole lot of time and annoyance. + + ## Obtaining commit access If you want to participate in organizing and curating this data, contact `Dale Glass#8576` on Discord. ## LFS -This repository stores data in Git LFS for better binary management. It's recommended to read the documentation. +This repository stores data in Git LFS for better binary management. It's recommended to read the documentation. If the checkout is interrupted in the LFS stage, `git lfs pull` should fix it. ## Removed data