• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    16 days ago

    im torn. as someone with a massive personal library, bluray was a non-starter. they never fleshed it out to the storage densities i would have required for my library. solid state storage has come so far now, it just makes sense.

    someday i’ll just be able to hand a single drive with my 100tb of content to my kids. if youre concerned about ‘owning’ shit. start powning it.

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          16 days ago

          It’s $100 for 4TB right now.

          But once you factor in RAID and alternating offsite backups, it’s really $400 for 4TB.

          I go through all the older stuff I pulled from the internet. A lot of it can’t be found now.

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            There’s currently little reason to choose SSDs over HDDs when you’re talking about bulk storage for media. HDDs have plenty of R/W speed for this purpose and are a fraction of the price. New, you can buy 8TB drives for around $100 or used/refurbished (from somewhere like serverpartdeals.com) you can buy 14TB for $150 or even 20TB+ for $250.

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              15 days ago

              My raid has an nvme bcache on it, so it’s still fairly quick.

              $100USD is just what it costs in Australia, because we get screwed for price over here.

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              16 days ago

              Haha remember when CD burners came out and a $5 CD-R had the capacity of a $200 HDD?

              The kid with access to a CD burner was the king of the playground.

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            15 days ago

            Eh, you can do off-site backups a bit cheaper than that, just bring a drive in to work and leave it in your desk. Boom, off-site backups for the cost of a drive. No need to alternate anything, just bring the drive home every few months to re-sync. Or keep that drive at a relative’s/friend’s house if work doesn’t work for whatever reason.

            I’m currently using a RAID mirror only, but I’m planning on doing the “bring your drive to work day” thing, and I think it can work really well. The drive should last something like 5 years (or more!), especially if you’re only spinning it up a few times/year.

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              14 days ago

              This is the best way. My locker at work has my offsite backup on an encrypted+compressed portable drive. I have two drives that alternate offsite so they are never all in the one spot.