Yeah, personal hardware. Replaced my 2 bay (2x 6 TB) NAS that had 5 USB drives attached with more powerful 12 bay NAS and 9x 20TB drives. Luckily before the insane price hikes due to the AI hype. Still, I invest like $7000 over all at least. That’s a lot of years of netflix/spotify :D
I don’t even bother with the electricity, it just is what it is.
8 of the drives are on a raid 6 and one is a hot spare and converted to 1000 based terrabyte, I’m maxing out at 109.1 TB, but max volume size is 108 TB.
But I’ve interacted with people that had 1.2 PB … there is always a bigger fish ^^
7000/19.99(netflix ad free)+12.99(spotify ad free) is 17 years, and thats excluding any other providers you may have had such as crunchyroll or a content specific provider. Honestly if you leave your unused HDD’s off the array/NAS you likely have years of drive life as well
What are you spending the money on? Physical sever devices? Electricity?
Hard drives. That shit’s gotten expensive lately. But keeping your own media is worth it. Also, paying for the annual VPN subscription.
Yeah, personal hardware. Replaced my 2 bay (2x 6 TB) NAS that had 5 USB drives attached with more powerful 12 bay NAS and 9x 20TB drives. Luckily before the insane price hikes due to the AI hype. Still, I invest like $7000 over all at least. That’s a lot of years of netflix/spotify :D
I don’t even bother with the electricity, it just is what it is.
Jeeeeeesus. I’ve got 20TB and that feels like a lot 😅
8 of the drives are on a raid 6 and one is a hot spare and converted to 1000 based terrabyte, I’m maxing out at 109.1 TB, but max volume size is 108 TB.
But I’ve interacted with people that had 1.2 PB … there is always a bigger fish ^^
Meanwhile, I’m over here about to attach a 2tb drive to my Nextcloud server and I thought that was a lot…
7000/19.99(netflix ad free)+12.99(spotify ad free) is 17 years, and thats excluding any other providers you may have had such as crunchyroll or a content specific provider. Honestly if you leave your unused HDD’s off the array/NAS you likely have years of drive life as well
It’s definitely the hard drives. A 1tb SSD is about $150, and can definitely get you far, but it’s never far enough
How long would it take to watch 1 TB of video? A lifetime?
A single bluray movie will run around 50GB and full TV shows can easily be 100s of GBs.
I use a 1 TB and a 2 TB ssd for temporary storage, sorting and transcoding. But for permanent storage, HDDs are the way to go if you want a lot.