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Storage?! In this economy!? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago by Smurfi@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hey all you beautiful selfhosters,

What are your suggestions for frugally obtaining HDDs in the current economic climate? Specifically the EU (Netherlands).

I'm looking at second hand drives, but even those go for €100+ now, with bad sectors and all.

Can we organise a collective AI datacenter robbery and doll out some stolen drives? 😁

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[–] SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zone 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

You know the fun part is you could just about use a 750 zip disk to steam video. Read speeds are about 7.5mb/s...enough for 1-2 simultaneous 480p Jellyfin streams.

Shit...everybody about RAID and here we are suggesting RAIT. No school like old school.

I still think the "DVD shuffler clockwork JF server with AI upscale" idea would be more fun to build tho, because as stupid as it sounds, the maths adds up. It would be gloriously cursed, but 3000+ hours of video is 3000 + hours of video.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago

I used to have a DVD duplicator. Picked it up at an auction many, many years back then turned it for twice what I had in it. Something similar to this: