• originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    1 day 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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          21 hours 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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            19 hours ago

            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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              16 hours 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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              21 hours 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.