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What would a typical household/homelab use such a storage for? (“Games & Stuff”)

by Brajeshwar 10mo ago

NoPicklez 10mo ago
Memes
- xipho 10mo ago
  That's no meme- it's a fully operational crazy custom build. A remarkable video that doesn't end in "like and mash subscribe".
  - bombcar 10mo ago
    I think they meant "store memes on it".
    - xipho 10mo ago
      That too! There seem to be a lot of YT videos that are memes on this theme as well though. He alludes to the fact that people make build videos that are essentially adding a couple of pre-existing more or less built components together. This is another level.
    - NoPicklez 10mo ago
      Yeah "memes" was the answer to the question of the post. Archival of the memes
  - OrvalWintermute 10mo ago
    Amazed by how many things he built in the process of making his NAS. High quality vid!
    - johanvts 10mo ago
      Cant respond to your EU tariff comment but just wanted to tell you that VAT and luxury tax applies to EU made products as well, so it doesn’t seem relevant to add when talking about tariffs.
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willtemperley 10mo ago
Store the Sentinel 2 imagery for a year - about 500TB. Now I just have to find a way to avoid the $50k egress cost from AWS.
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lanthade 10mo ago
Data hoarders. I'm in a plex group on fb and there's people there with libraries that they could never personally watch all of. It sometimes seems like it's more a game of collecting all the things than it is about actually enjoying the collection.
- stingraycharles 10mo ago
  This is correct, I personally aim to have all the highest quality versions of all movies, ie original Blu-ray. I have plenty of people that make use of it, it’s a hobby.
- hrimfaxi 10mo ago
  Either that or they share their library with others (or maybe a bit of both)
- tuananh 10mo ago
  how much does it cost in term of electricity per month?
  - bayindirh 10mo ago
    From "negligible" to "I have another house inside my house" levels, depending on your hardware. A close friend of mine runs a single beefy server at home, which is currently ~35% of his monthly bill if I'm not making mental-math mistakes.
    - overfeed 10mo ago
      As far as serious hobbies go, 35% of monthly electric bill is not breaking the bank. How much do people with other hobbies spend monthly on parts for their project cars, race entry fees, gym fees, "high performance" gear, Track fees, etc?
      - bayindirh 10mo ago
        I didn't imply that it's a high amount. It's just an example I can refer reliably. I'm not a stranger to expensive hobbies. I have at least a couple of them. Photography and high end stationery being two of them.
qingcharles 10mo ago
"Linux ISOs"
- bayindirh 10mo ago
  The funny thing is, I keep a set of historical Linux ISOs to be able to work with older servers in my fleet. Needing Debian 8 because that Lights Out connection requires JVM-something for the Java Web Start based console of the system. Moreover, funnily, some newer servers work wonkier with more modern ipmitools and browser versions while connecting remotely. Intricacies of older embedded systems.
- jdboyd 10mo ago
  I do have an archive of Linux ISOs, but it is not anywhere near petabyte sized. Well I'm not trying to be comprehensive, everyone I download for many years now gets archived, and I am not sure that it is reached a terabyte yet.
kybernetikos 10mo ago
Z-library mirror maybe.
PeterStuer 10mo ago
I know a person that just "collects" games. They don't play them, they don't distribute them, it's just dowloaded and (poorly) cataloged like a Pokemon collection, unironically trying to catch them all.
ahnick 10mo ago
Chia farming.
cookiengineer 10mo ago
Knowledge archive. Everything I need to know to practice my job and life, I have an offline copy of. Wikipedia, SO, mediawikis, devdocs, git repos of dependencies etc. If google decides to shove AI generated results up our throats, that's the reasonable alternative. Currently I am building zimdex, as an alternative to the zim tools. Also if that's your thing, check out the kiwix.org project. It's really nice.
- bayindirh 10mo ago
  Most of them should be pretty compressible though. How do you store them? Currently I'm running TrueNAS on a small NUC w/ 4SSDs and working on adding a mirrored pool via an external enclosure, but I'll be doing some bug fixing, it seems.
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What would a typical household/homelab use such a storage for? (“Games & Stuff”)

NoPicklez 10mo ago

Memes

xipho 10mo ago
That's no meme- it's a fully operational crazy custom build. A remarkable video that doesn't end in "like and mash subscribe".
- bombcar 10mo ago
  I think they meant "store memes on it".
  - xipho 10mo ago
    That too! There seem to be a lot of YT videos that are memes on this theme as well though. He alludes to the fact that people make build videos that are essentially adding a couple of pre-existing more or less built components together. This is another level.
  - NoPicklez 10mo ago
    Yeah "memes" was the answer to the question of the post. Archival of the memes
- OrvalWintermute 10mo ago
  Amazed by how many things he built in the process of making his NAS. High quality vid!
  - johanvts 10mo ago
    Cant respond to your EU tariff comment but just wanted to tell you that VAT and luxury tax applies to EU made products as well, so it doesn’t seem relevant to add when talking about tariffs.

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willtemperley 10mo ago

Store the Sentinel 2 imagery for a year - about 500TB. Now I just have to find a way to avoid the $50k egress cost from AWS.

deleted 10mo ago
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lanthade 10mo ago

Data hoarders. I'm in a plex group on fb and there's people there with libraries that they could never personally watch all of. It sometimes seems like it's more a game of collecting all the things than it is about actually enjoying the collection.

stingraycharles 10mo ago
This is correct, I personally aim to have all the highest quality versions of all movies, ie original Blu-ray. I have plenty of people that make use of it, it’s a hobby.
hrimfaxi 10mo ago
Either that or they share their library with others (or maybe a bit of both)
tuananh 10mo ago
how much does it cost in term of electricity per month?
- bayindirh 10mo ago
  From "negligible" to "I have another house inside my house" levels, depending on your hardware. A close friend of mine runs a single beefy server at home, which is currently ~35% of his monthly bill if I'm not making mental-math mistakes.
  - overfeed 10mo ago
    As far as serious hobbies go, 35% of monthly electric bill is not breaking the bank. How much do people with other hobbies spend monthly on parts for their project cars, race entry fees, gym fees, "high performance" gear, Track fees, etc?
    - bayindirh 10mo ago
      I didn't imply that it's a high amount. It's just an example I can refer reliably. I'm not a stranger to expensive hobbies. I have at least a couple of them. Photography and high end stationery being two of them.

qingcharles 10mo ago

"Linux ISOs"

bayindirh 10mo ago
The funny thing is, I keep a set of historical Linux ISOs to be able to work with older servers in my fleet. Needing Debian 8 because that Lights Out connection requires JVM-something for the Java Web Start based console of the system. Moreover, funnily, some newer servers work wonkier with more modern ipmitools and browser versions while connecting remotely. Intricacies of older embedded systems.
jdboyd 10mo ago
I do have an archive of Linux ISOs, but it is not anywhere near petabyte sized. Well I'm not trying to be comprehensive, everyone I download for many years now gets archived, and I am not sure that it is reached a terabyte yet.

kybernetikos 10mo ago

Z-library mirror maybe.

PeterStuer 10mo ago

I know a person that just "collects" games. They don't play them, they don't distribute them, it's just dowloaded and (poorly) cataloged like a Pokemon collection, unironically trying to catch them all.

ahnick 10mo ago

Chia farming.

cookiengineer 10mo ago

Knowledge archive. Everything I need to know to practice my job and life, I have an offline copy of. Wikipedia, SO, mediawikis, devdocs, git repos of dependencies etc. If google decides to shove AI generated results up our throats, that's the reasonable alternative. Currently I am building zimdex, as an alternative to the zim tools. Also if that's your thing, check out the kiwix.org project. It's really nice.

bayindirh 10mo ago
Most of them should be pretty compressible though. How do you store them? Currently I'm running TrueNAS on a small NUC w/ 4SSDs and working on adding a mirrored pool via an external enclosure, but I'll be doing some bug fixing, it seems.
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