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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[-] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 86 points 1 year ago

I bought myself a raspberry pi for my birthday a few years ago.

I now have thousands of dollars in hardware sitting in a server rack in my office. Whoops.

[-] droans@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

A single 1TB drive should be enough for my Plex server, I said.

123TB isn't enough, I need more 18TB hard drives, I said.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

Oh my God.... I'm running a jellyfin with 8TB.... Don't get me wrong I want more and will eventually figure out how to do it cheaper but that's so impressive

[-] droans@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The cheaper way is to either use shucked EasyStores when they're on sale or to buy them from ServerPartsDeals or whatever the site is called.

I got some 18TB drives for $200 from them. With EasyStores, 14TB drives are about the same price. The 18TB drives are refurbed and come with a shorter warranty, but you have to be rather careful with the EasyStores to maintain the warranty and you'll still likely lose it.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 2 points 1 year ago

Just want you to know that you have just made my life better and now I have a dangerous game ahead of me to not buy so many of these drives and completely lose all my money

[-] dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 year ago

this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023

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