I brought a nas with two 10tb HDDs last year, honestly thought that was all the space I was ever gonna need, but now I am honestly thinking of getting two 20tb HDDS to fill in the other two bays
all external drives are pretty much equally shitty, which is to say you have a less than 1% chance of them failing in 5 years. There are occasional bad batches, sandisk had a nasty one with their external SSDs recently, but that will almost always crop up in the first day of use. If you're just storing your porn you have nothing to worry about, you'll be jerking it to new stuff well before you have drive issues regardless of the brand.
Inside my system, it's filled with seagate red iron wolfs atm which are relatively new and has caused no issues
I've had a 8tb seagate archive drive died on me, that was it
I have a really old 4tb seagate still running perfectly that's been on for 80k hours according to the software thing, also got a 3tb wd drive in their for 60k hours
Inside my system, it's filled with seagate red iron wolfs atm which are relatively new and has caused no issues
I've had a 8tb seagate archive drive died on me, that was it
I have a really old 4tb seagate still running perfectly that's been on for 80k hours according to the software thing, also got a 3tb wd drive in their for 60k hours
I used to repair computers and most of the hard drives that were bad were Seagate, same with some ones I owned. Western digital drives are much better.
In all seriousness, that's not a photo of my personal setup. I have about a 100TB of storage coming from a pair Synology NAS enclosures. I've spent somewhere around $8000 on them since 2017 would be my guess. At the moment I'm in the planning stages for a rack mounted setup, which I would build-up over time. The idea is 4 HL15 racks, each with 15 22TB drives. This would cost me $30,000. The current plan is to use Unraid, so that I don't need many drives to begin with. I'll buy them as I go, a new drive every 3 or 4 months maybe. Prices will go down as I build the thing up.
I have the RM400 for my Plex and NextCloud. Great case.
I have two 16tb drives and two 6tb drives.
The 16tb drives are mirrored for the Plex stuff and the 6tb drives are mirrored for the NextCloud.
One-day I'm going to expand the Plex stuff into 4x16tb drives and run it all from TrueNAS (or I might keep it on Ubuntu Server).
I'm also planning an SSD NAS to store documents and photos
there is no way anyone regularely watches 1 petabyte of movies
just save everything you might watch again some time and throw out the rest, you can always torrent it again in under 10 minutes anyways
4 months ago
Anonymous
>you can always torrent it again in under 10 minutes anyways
until it's gone
I have this sitting on my floor somewhere waiting for my other shit to deteriorate to call it off the bench
Currently using a standalone 16TB so I can eject it if my system crashes because of my meme folder
What is this, serious q.
Virtual hoarding?
The same mindset as the physical hoarder, "must have, must save, I don't know why or what I already have or how many duplicates but there is room for more..."
Hoarding without the mess, actually appears neat and tidy but it's only valuable to the hoarder.
Fricking weird.
What are you going to do with it?
Iif you get hit by a Hino tomorrow, is it going to benefit anyone or just be some shit someone else has to get rid of?
I don't really understand anyone who doesn't have a fear of things disappearing in the future. A few bucks on peace of mind is worth its weight in gold.
It's mostly irrelevant really. I lost a drive last year and the only stuff I regret not backing up is photos I took. There was a movie collection on there as well, don't really give a frick. Now I'm splitting my drive setup and only back up partially, maybe I'll generate a file list of the other stuff but that's as far as I'll bother.
I had a bunch of muxed/encoded stuff on there that's not really available in that form, mostly old dubs with better video quality. Still.. eh, whatever.
I have a NAS with 32TB of storage, currently using 12TB
It's got redundancy so I don't lose anything if one of the drives dies, but what happens if the whole thing gets destroyed in a fire? Where am I meant to back up many TBs of data in cloud storage for a reasonable price?
>Where am I meant to back up many TBs of data in cloud storage for a reasonable price?
Been wondering that too, it seems that the cheapest offer on Glacier is a decent choice https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/
Glad I'm not the only the autistic anon for naming their drives like this.
Although having drive names like >Colossu (S:) >What the (F:)
would drive (no pun intended) wild.
I have a NAS with 32TB of storage, currently using 12TB
It's got redundancy so I don't lose anything if one of the drives dies, but what happens if the whole thing gets destroyed in a fire? Where am I meant to back up many TBs of data in cloud storage for a reasonable price?
Back up only your most important files onto hard drives and keep them in a separate location, if possible. Out of that 12TB, how much would you really be unable to replace if you had to?
Consumers gonna consume.
Mone of you have had to empty out a home/condo/apartment when a person dies. It's a big frickin mess of meaningless shit that has to be sifted through and disposed of. But you're dead and don't have to deal with it, your loved ones do.
Stop it now, save your loved ones a big fricking headache on top of the heartache.
I had to clean an apartment this fall after one of my relatives dying and it was a mess but what are you proposing? That you don't collect stuff that makes (You) happy just because if you die someone else might have to organize or throw them out? Where do you even draw the line? Why do you have a computer?
What a horrible way to view the world.
I've just got a mix of internal and ex HDDs piled up over the years. SSD for software and gaming. only had one 8TB Seagate fail after 4? years. had the important shit like revenge porn of my ex backed up so nbd just annoying.
If I were to make the jump to big boy NAS systems could I expect prices to come down and save some money waiting a few years or nah? not in a rush, just holding onto the old, foreign and arthouse films from 4-30GBs as I come across new watches
>If I were to make the jump to big boy NAS systems could I expect prices to come down and save some money waiting a few years or nah?
its unlikely to see major price movements
the price per GB will continue to drop gradually, as it has done forever
and regarding the NAS, you should absolutely get one
if you have an old desktop you can use, that's the ideal way to go. most mobos have at least 4 sata slots, which is a good start for a nas
you can then add a sata expansion card for more slots
you can also upgrade to a case with a shitload of internal drives
if you don't have existing hardware to repurpose, you could buy an off-the-shelf nas unit. up to 4 bay units, they're cheaper than a from scratch DIY nas build. also the form factor is quite attractive, they're smol and quiet and power efficient.
above 4 bays tho, the DIY build easily becomes a far better value, even if you spend extra for a case with hotswap bays and all that jazz.
one final note, you can also make a ghetto nas with a raspberry pi + up to 4 external HDDs (or regular HDDs in separately bought usb enclosures). you won't be able to do RAID stuff over usb (at leasts, its a seriously bad idea to try), but for the basic goals of removing the spinning rush from your desktop to save yourself from noise, and to make the data available over wifi to every device, the ghetto nas will serve.
Recently went thru a lot of research trying to decide between repurpose or just but an off the shelf NAS. Everything this anon says is absolutely correct. Ended up getting an off the shelf unit for the power savings and not having to mess with the setup.
I brought a nas with two 10tb HDDs last year, honestly thought that was all the space I was ever gonna need, but now I am honestly thinking of getting two 20tb HDDS to fill in the other two bays
Seagate a shit, i need a WD instead
>meanwhile in a first world country...
You seriously using that for long tern file storage?
Lol not one person on this fricking earth cats about your “files” homosexual
I do
wat
more like wb_kwab
>SSD
>for media storage
Let me have some of that money you're pissing away.
it's just a flash drive.
then why not streaming?
Is seagate really that bad? I'm thinking about buying a WD drive soon to replace my current Seagate one that I store a lot of stuff on.
No
Depends what drive for Seagate tbh
My seagate reds have been running forever and hasn't died
My Seagate archive died ages ago which was fun
I've heard WD has a really shitty rma process too, so be wary of them
Is there a solid external drive you could recommend me?
all external drives are pretty much equally shitty, which is to say you have a less than 1% chance of them failing in 5 years. There are occasional bad batches, sandisk had a nasty one with their external SSDs recently, but that will almost always crop up in the first day of use. If you're just storing your porn you have nothing to worry about, you'll be jerking it to new stuff well before you have drive issues regardless of the brand.
Thank you, anons
I'm the Seagate anon and Idk
It's all a crapshoot tbh
Inside my system, it's filled with seagate red iron wolfs atm which are relatively new and has caused no issues
I've had a 8tb seagate archive drive died on me, that was it
I have a really old 4tb seagate still running perfectly that's been on for 80k hours according to the software thing, also got a 3tb wd drive in their for 60k hours
>eternal
ew
i've had some bad experiences with seagate. Had 2 different drives from them fail within 1-2 years.
I used to repair computers and most of the hard drives that were bad were Seagate, same with some ones I owned. Western digital drives are much better.
BOW YOU SHITS
>toshiba
I used to buy HDDs from them but none of my disks got past 4 years of use without issues. Just buy WD, it's much better.
>seagate
>gold
>storing media on SSDs
For me, it's buying 22TB WD Red Pros (CMR) on sale for ~335, or ~$15/TB. I'm not into shucking and such shit.
I have four 4tb drives and i'm already running out of space 😐
No parity? You're at risk of losing your kinos.
>No parity? You're at risk of losing your kinos.
>mfw waiting for my kino collection to crash
it's like Russian Roulette bros
Let me guess, you drive with insurance, you wear protection while having sex and you stop at red lights. Miss me with your sanctimonious ways homie
32TB VHS drive
well, yeah, they come in 22tb now and the 16s are a shitty deal.
but anything over 16tb is not as reliable. at least thats what i heard
Compression considered 16TB would literally be enough for all the kino i care about tbh
Anyone worth his salt is working hard towards having a 1PB home file server for his kino.
genuine question, how much did all that cost?
strip all of the overpriced garbage, about 300USD.
with all that overpriced garbage north of 2kUSD i'd guess.
In all seriousness, that's not a photo of my personal setup. I have about a 100TB of storage coming from a pair Synology NAS enclosures. I've spent somewhere around $8000 on them since 2017 would be my guess. At the moment I'm in the planning stages for a rack mounted setup, which I would build-up over time. The idea is 4 HL15 racks, each with 15 22TB drives. This would cost me $30,000. The current plan is to use Unraid, so that I don't need many drives to begin with. I'll buy them as I go, a new drive every 3 or 4 months maybe. Prices will go down as I build the thing up.
Correction. 3 HL15. Each is about $12,000, once full of 22TB Ironwolf Pros.
Based
I just bought this bad boy, alongside my 5 bay synology would be 20 drives
I tell myself, 20 drives would be enough, but we'll see in about 5-6 years if I need more lol
I have the RM400 for my Plex and NextCloud. Great case.
I have two 16tb drives and two 6tb drives.
The 16tb drives are mirrored for the Plex stuff and the 6tb drives are mirrored for the NextCloud.
One-day I'm going to expand the Plex stuff into 4x16tb drives and run it all from TrueNAS (or I might keep it on Ubuntu Server).
I'm also planning an SSD NAS to store documents and photos
Forgot picture
>that cable management
I'm literally shaking.
Out of sight, out of mind
only God knows how much porn is on that
Nice
for what purpose? autism?
you're on Cinemaphile what the frick do you think is on those drives?
probably porn too btw
there is no way anyone regularely watches 1 petabyte of movies
just save everything you might watch again some time and throw out the rest, you can always torrent it again in under 10 minutes anyways
>you can always torrent it again in under 10 minutes anyways
until it's gone
Who the frick buys Duralast jack stands?
I know you. The jack stands, the basement foundation work, I'm your shitty neighbor with the always lose dog
KEK Happy New Year NEIGHBOR
>based people browse Cinemaphile
aaaa, i feel so good knowing we're all superior to the normie, happy new years anons
I have this sitting on my floor somewhere waiting for my other shit to deteriorate to call it off the bench
Currently using a standalone 16TB so I can eject it if my system crashes because of my meme folder
What is this, serious q.
Virtual hoarding?
The same mindset as the physical hoarder, "must have, must save, I don't know why or what I already have or how many duplicates but there is room for more..."
Hoarding without the mess, actually appears neat and tidy but it's only valuable to the hoarder.
Fricking weird.
What are you going to do with it?
Iif you get hit by a Hino tomorrow, is it going to benefit anyone or just be some shit someone else has to get rid of?
It's an issue and I have a problem yes
but if you run a server for your friends or family to use your content, like me for my brother, no issues
Please see
It's a good wholesome hobby and you keep it neat.
I apologize for my previous harsh wording.
I don't really understand anyone who doesn't have a fear of things disappearing in the future. A few bucks on peace of mind is worth its weight in gold.
It's mostly irrelevant really. I lost a drive last year and the only stuff I regret not backing up is photos I took. There was a movie collection on there as well, don't really give a frick. Now I'm splitting my drive setup and only back up partially, maybe I'll generate a file list of the other stuff but that's as far as I'll bother.
It depends on what you're backing up. If it's hollywood blockbuster shit, then yeah, you're not going to miss any of it.
I had a bunch of muxed/encoded stuff on there that's not really available in that form, mostly old dubs with better video quality. Still.. eh, whatever.
>Where am I meant to back up many TBs of data in cloud storage for a reasonable price?
Been wondering that too, it seems that the cheapest offer on Glacier is a decent choice https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/
I have more than anyone in this thread. Witness me.
You are the big gay for naming your drives this way
I have three NVME's named after the Magi like muh favorite animes.
>Melchior
>Caspar
>Balthasar
Glad I'm not the only the autistic anon for naming their drives like this.
Although having drive names like
>Colossu (S:)
>What the (F:)
would drive (no pun intended) wild.
My e-peen is bigger than yours.
Extremely homosexual naming scheme
Kek, I don't have 2 terabytes with everything: I've got to delete the 720p shit I've downloaded to make space for the next YiFy
can someone tell me why empty blu ray discs cost more than 10 cents a pop?
It's not just the plastic disc.
i buy movies if i like em
>bought new drives
>got nothing to download
I have a NAS with 32TB of storage, currently using 12TB
It's got redundancy so I don't lose anything if one of the drives dies, but what happens if the whole thing gets destroyed in a fire? Where am I meant to back up many TBs of data in cloud storage for a reasonable price?
Back up only your most important files onto hard drives and keep them in a separate location, if possible. Out of that 12TB, how much would you really be unable to replace if you had to?
Just grab your NAS as you run out the door? Problem solved. Or buy a second NAS you can keep at a buddy's house.
>seagate
@194161833 (You)
>torrent some indian's shit
shut the frick up.
Consumers gonna consume.
Mone of you have had to empty out a home/condo/apartment when a person dies. It's a big frickin mess of meaningless shit that has to be sifted through and disposed of. But you're dead and don't have to deal with it, your loved ones do.
Stop it now, save your loved ones a big fricking headache on top of the heartache.
I had to clean an apartment this fall after one of my relatives dying and it was a mess but what are you proposing? That you don't collect stuff that makes (You) happy just because if you die someone else might have to organize or throw them out? Where do you even draw the line? Why do you have a computer?
What a horrible way to view the world.
I've just got a mix of internal and ex HDDs piled up over the years. SSD for software and gaming. only had one 8TB Seagate fail after 4? years. had the important shit like revenge porn of my ex backed up so nbd just annoying.
If I were to make the jump to big boy NAS systems could I expect prices to come down and save some money waiting a few years or nah? not in a rush, just holding onto the old, foreign and arthouse films from 4-30GBs as I come across new watches
>If I were to make the jump to big boy NAS systems could I expect prices to come down and save some money waiting a few years or nah?
its unlikely to see major price movements
the price per GB will continue to drop gradually, as it has done forever
and regarding the NAS, you should absolutely get one
if you have an old desktop you can use, that's the ideal way to go. most mobos have at least 4 sata slots, which is a good start for a nas
you can then add a sata expansion card for more slots
you can also upgrade to a case with a shitload of internal drives
if you don't have existing hardware to repurpose, you could buy an off-the-shelf nas unit. up to 4 bay units, they're cheaper than a from scratch DIY nas build. also the form factor is quite attractive, they're smol and quiet and power efficient.
above 4 bays tho, the DIY build easily becomes a far better value, even if you spend extra for a case with hotswap bays and all that jazz.
one final note, you can also make a ghetto nas with a raspberry pi + up to 4 external HDDs (or regular HDDs in separately bought usb enclosures). you won't be able to do RAID stuff over usb (at leasts, its a seriously bad idea to try), but for the basic goals of removing the spinning rush from your desktop to save yourself from noise, and to make the data available over wifi to every device, the ghetto nas will serve.
good to know thanks. sounds like a nice DIY project once I get some income rolling again, probably ought to replace my desktop by then too
Recently went thru a lot of research trying to decide between repurpose or just but an off the shelf NAS. Everything this anon says is absolutely correct. Ended up getting an off the shelf unit for the power savings and not having to mess with the setup.
My Plex server is 28TB combined in Drivepool with no parity on Windows 11
I will get a parity drive when I save the money
you guys are a bunch of fricking dorks
Always
Yeah, I run 2 of these in a zfs mirror and I just ran out of storage