• AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 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
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      12 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
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        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.