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> How do you fill 288 TB? Is it mostly media? I kind of purposefully don't fill it up :). This has been a project of tech hoarding over the last ~8 years, but
by tombert 1y ago
> How do you fill 288 TB? Is it mostly media?
I kind of purposefully don't fill it up :).
This has been a project of tech hoarding over the last ~8 years, but basically I wanted "infinite storage". I wanted to be able to do pretty much any project and know that no matter how crazy I am, I'll have enough space for it. Thus far, even with all my media and AI models and stock data and whatnot, I'm sitting around ~45TB.
On the off chance that I do start running low on space, there's plenty of stuff I can delete if I need to, but of course I probably won't need to for the foreseeable future.
> I'm converting more of my infrastructure to NixOS, and I know a lot of people just manage their NAS with NixOS, which is sounding more and more appealing to me.
Yeah, that's what I do, I have my NixOS run a Samba on my RAID, and it works fine. It was like fifteen lines of config, version controlled, and I haven't thought about it in months.
- tracker1 1y agoI'm in a similar position on my storage... though mostly that I bought a new nas with the intent of storing for Chia, but after 3 days, I decided it was a total waste as I'd never catch up to the bigger miners... So I repurposed it for long term and retired my older nas. older nas was 4x 4tb drives when I retired it and passed it to a friend. Current nas is a 6-bay synology with ram and nvme upgraded, along with a 5-bay expansion. All with 12tb drives in a 6drive 2-parity and 5-drive 2-parity arrays. I'm just under 40tb used mostly media.
- jama211 1y agoWell you got it, I just wonder if half that storage would still be effectively infinite for you
- tombert 1y agoI bought the drives used on Ebay, and the prices weren't that different for the 8TB vs 16TB when I bought them. Like on the order of ~$15 higher, so I figured I'd just eat that cost and future proof it even more.
- jama211 1y agoFair enough, though you could’ve bought half as many if you didn’t mind the hit to the speed no?
- tombert 1y agoI am omitting some context. The original incarnation of this had 24 2TB drives and I wanted to upgrade that. I already had the three enclosures, and I incrementally upgraded the disks over the course of a year.
- jama211 1y agoHaha it’s all good I didn’t mean to interrogate you, enjoy your overkill storage, life is short