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Oh look at Mr. “I pay legitimate streaming services for all my tv shows and movies” over there. (= I have a 12 TB NAS that is 99% full at the moment. Should I
by dbg31415 3y ago
Oh look at Mr. “I pay legitimate streaming services for all my tv shows and movies” over there. (=
I have a 12 TB NAS that is 99% full at the moment. Should I delete movies I may want to watch later, knowing full well they aren’t easily available on the streaming services I pay for? Ha.
It fills fast!
- pixl97 3y agoThe people streaming their data are just using someone else's SSD... at the end of the day all this data we generate and consume sits somewhere
- rbanffy 3y agoI'm also deduplicating that data by not storing it locally.
- tbyehl 3y agoSounds like you need a bigger NAS. I throw a fresh 10TB drive in mine every 3-4 months.
- dbg31415 3y agoStart. Smart to cycle drives out after 3 years too.
- tbyehl 3y agoI'm thrifty, I buy drives that businesses already cycled out after 3-5 years.
- dbg31415 3y agoYou laugh in the face of danger; a real risk taker! (= I love all the Backblaze drive update posts about the lifespans of storage media.
- tbyehl 3y agoUsenet is my backup. I've tried to make Backblaze my backup a couple times but the ETA on completing the first pass is always right about never.
- rbanffy 3y agoIt's interesting to think that, as flash densities surpass hard disks, it'll become cheaper to store data on flash than on spinning metal once you factor in rack space and power consumption. Won't take that long.
- rbanffy 3y agoFor the kind of usage a streaming device has, an SSD is overkill. For that, spinning metal is probably a better choice. OTOH, 256TB of spinning metal take up space and is quite noisy.
- ls612 3y agoThey have 16TB NAS drives for $300 now so if you have decent disposable income just upgrading the drives one by one is probably a decent strategy.