• remon@ani.social
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    8 days ago

    I’m looking to buy some 18tb drives but holy hell they are expensive.

    Well, I’m running 9x 20TB drives …

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        8 days ago

        Around $340 each. Not so far, but I did just hit 70%, I have to think about expanding soon …

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          8 days ago

          without asking you to incriminate yourself…

          I always wonder: what the hell is everyone saving so much of?

          like I do photogrammetry sometimes and even then, if I backup all source imagery, I still won’t fill a couple of terabytes…

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            8 days ago

            Piracy. I have around 50TB of TV shows, 8TB of movies and 1TB of music.

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              7 days ago

              Got a list of suggestions?. I have 50 tbh free and slowly doing a big clean/replace with prefered groups, would love ‘forever’ reccomends. Little tinfoil hat but looking to buffer the enshittification of commercial services.

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                6 days ago

                I don’t really have a system either. Obviously I started out with the shows I personally like and watch, but at this point I’m just picking up random shows I stumble upon.

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                7 days ago

                12 Bay Synology NAS, with 8 of the drives in a raid 6, the 9th is a hot spare. A total of 108TB usable space.