I'm in the unfortunate phase of my "homelab" where I have about 300TB of storage spread amongst 3 continents. Civilization will fail before I lose all of my data.
Ah but I have redundancy. The majority of the content on them has multiple copies stored and spread out, ready to be redistributed back to me via a p2p network.
Running RAID 0 on an array made of old 80gb HDDs from Toshiba laptops you found in a dumpster really gets the blood pumping. Makes you feel alive again
Old cable TV and satellite boxes often have hard drives, I think I used to find 500gb drives in there. But they have TONS of usage. I think I paid $1-2 for them.
Yeah, old DVR boxes were pretty fantastic when you just needed a lot of storage. They were one of the few places you could reliably find 1TB drives, back when those were still fairly new and expensive.
huh. I could use 16TB of storage... maybe I should get into this 'homelab' thing
Famous last words
See you, space cowboy!
I would say that ![email protected] is leaking, but I think most of the communities here tend to leak into each other anyway
Tbf, that community is one of the most active that isn’t news or memes.
I'm in the unfortunate phase of my "homelab" where I have about 300TB of storage spread amongst 3 continents. Civilization will fail before I lose all of my data.
Look at Mr. Svalbard Global Seed Storage over here.
Earth is our home.
16TB of dubious HDDs and no backups what could go wrong?
Ah but I have redundancy. The majority of the content on them has multiple copies stored and spread out, ready to be redistributed back to me via a p2p network.
What do you use for the p2p network?
I was being tongue in cheek. 🏴☠️
I see, it's that kind of p2p network
Running RAID 0 on an array made of old 80gb HDDs from Toshiba laptops you found in a dumpster really gets the blood pumping. Makes you feel alive again
I saw some short a out people harvesting them from old modems.
Old cable TV and satellite boxes often have hard drives, I think I used to find 500gb drives in there. But they have TONS of usage. I think I paid $1-2 for them.
Ayuo, i have a great time scavenging fetch boxes from hard rubbish. Lowest sized drive in those is 1tb
Yeah, old DVR boxes were pretty fantastic when you just needed a lot of storage. They were one of the few places you could reliably find 1TB drives, back when those were still fairly new and expensive.
Only 16? Rookie numbers.
Teach him how to beegfs and he will never run out of storage space again.
Self hosted Private cloud is even easier.
I would love to host my files physically!
Ok but like aside from a backup of Wikipedia what are you storing that is that big
Arrrr, I won't be sharin me plunders with the likes of ye land lubber.
wikipedia is suprisingly small, actually. like under half a terabyte iirc.
I think most of the old laptops I’ve collected are sata.