• Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
    12·
    2 days ago

    Ok first of all you people have too much money to spend on hard drives.

    Secondly, it’s not curated if you are downloading everything ever.
    I’ve got 8tb full of a 12tb raid array and that already feels like enough for a lifetime.

      • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
        1·
        50 minutes ago

        Can.

        I have all of top gear for like 200GB. It doesn’t have to. We don’t have to Overfill extra large shows.

      • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
        5·
        20 hours ago

        Yeah do you guys not see that recommending $700 dollars just for hard drives might be my point about having to much money? That’s a huge jump up from an external drive and a torrent client.

        That cost is 6 years of streaming services.
        At this point the hoarding is just the hobby instead of the media.

        • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          18 hours ago

          I don’t do this, I just don’t think it’s particularly unreasonable to have that much storage. It’s less than what apple will charge you for a 2tb ssd

          • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
            2·
            17 hours ago

            less than what apple will charge you for a 2tb ssd

            Well that’s like saying going to 7/11 is cheaper than going to the moon. Apple charges multiple hundreds of dollars for a watch band, and $80 for a holder for their pen.
            If you just want to be able to watch stuff and have some in storage to watch later less will do you than getting half a rent payment payment in hard drives.

            • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              16 hours ago

              Yes, if you’re limited on money you certainly don’t need that much. You could get very similar setup with Seagate’s 8tb drives for like $200. And things don’t need to be stored in archival quality either. Just saying that amount of storage isn’t crazy expensive nowadays.

              Also you forgot the $700 Mac pro wheels lol (yes they cost that much now)

              • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
                1·
                13 hours ago

                Yeah. I’m just holding the line happily of what you can get away with minimally since I used to use a cell phone plan and a USB adapter for micro sd cards. But that was for sharing movies with people that didn’t have internet for months and it was basically currency.

                You are correct that server setups are shockingly cheap especially when compared to any apple product ever.

                • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  9 hours ago

                  I’m very proud of my budget server setup. around $220 in total for an i7 6700 thinkcentre from the university surplus store, plus 16 gb ram, a 256 gb sata SSD and an 8tb hdd

                  I don’t use it for media hosting or anything, so the 8tb drive is mostly just for backups of the server and my desktop.

        • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
          1·
          20 hours ago

          I literally just had 2 4TB external hard drives that had more than enough movies and TV shows with anyone I would trade with.

          I don’t think we all need every show ever.

          • rumschlumpel@feddit.orgEnglish
            1·
            18 hours ago

            I’m a bit of a data hoarder, a lot of content from YouTube or public broadcasters is worth saving, or is just a big favourite of mine. I’ve already been deleting more files than I like to.

          • a_jeering_serpent@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            1 day ago

            I have a bunch of Fanxiang 4TB drives, eg S880. I didn’t set out to have so many but crucial, Samsung, etc all failed way too often in early life.

            I bought a few on a lark and stocked up on those and pine 64 stuff to do a 36 node ceph cluster (if you figured i got the idea from Jeff Geerling you get a gold star!)

            Last year my heat went out during below freezing temperatures and I lost three Toshiba drives, out of three total.

            Cluster is almost 2 years old and I degoogled with it. I have an additional rack of raspis and orangepis that run my k3s cluster, Jellyfin runs on that along with some additional infrastructarr.

            The k3s nodes run off of virtual iscsi images served by ceph, rgw gateway for s3 compatible api, and the only public exposure requires access to my zerotier network. My home router runs it, then my phone and laptop and that’s all within the zerotier free plan.

            The Fanxiangs have exceeded my expectations and they are competitively priced. Watch their eBay store for the occasional bulk discount deal. Give one a try, I run my laptop and desktop on them now as well.

    • duckythescientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      A single movie is 50-80GB for a high quality rip. I’m at around 9TB and have seen most things in my collection, and that’s maybe 6 years of light-ish use. I’m planning another 60+TB this Black Friday.

      • Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
        3·
        20 hours ago

        So firstly, some fun trivia. Did you know that 720p is still considered HD? High quality rip is very subjective. Secondly I have 4k movies at like 16-20GB you are going like fully uncompressed.

        But congrats I guess on the upgrade

        • dreugeworst@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          16 hours ago

          here I am storing my movies in well compressed 1080p av1 and considering it an upgrade over streaming. to think there are people using 80GB per movie. I suppose if you have a great screen and eyesight it might be worth it, but for me I don’t think I’d really notice the difference even if I bought a better tv