• Ashy@lemmy.wtf
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    10 months ago

    For me that was one of the worst financial moves ever made.

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        10 months ago

        Well, for the amount of money I spend on hard drives and other hardware I could subscribe to Netflix for about 30 years.

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          How much disk space do you need?

          I have a simple 500GD HDD ($25) and a 230GB (?).

          I also have $120 worth of DVD and CD for ~$60 thanks to Goodwill

          Fits nicely.

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              Wild! I’ve got about 40 TB myself, and have never come across someone with more… let alone four times more.

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                40 TB was my previous capacity and based around a really cheap 2 bay NAS with a mess of external USB drives attached and no backup … and is now pretty much full.

                So I ordered a 12 bay NAS (with, for now 6x 20TB disks) to bascially replace the entire old setup. I’m also planning to put the new setup in RAID 5 or 6, so it will only have an effective storage of 80-100 TB.

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                    10 months ago

                    Just a lot of stuff. TV Shows/Series take up by far the most space. For example, just the Simpsons in 1080p (h264) takes over 500GB.

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            Don’t forget some people run RAID, which means you need duplicates of the HDD. That really adds up.

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          My only pain is destroying all those VCD/SVCDs and shitload of DVD-Rs full of .avi files.

          All garbage when watching from modern high def TVs.