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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 10 points 1 week 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.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 1 week ago
[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

3-2-1 backup rule

meh. i have triple redundancy including an offline set. cheap storage means cheap redundancy,

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 4 points 1 week 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.

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week 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.

yep, dirt cheap. all about perspective. my first hd was 40mb and cost 250$

e. oh, and you can get solid used 4tbs in bulk for ~60$ now

[-] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week 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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