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Shoutout to my selfhosting homies with a partner, kid, and cat(s), with these storage prices. T_T (lemmy.today)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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A bar graph stating "How much storage you need on your phone." Single, 256GB ; In a relationship, 540 GB ; If you have a cat, 28TB.
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[–] 15 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Years ago I was tempted to get a 4TB SSD for data storage as prices were getting reasonable and I just kept thinking wait for it to drop a bit more. Now 4TB HDDs are pushing the same price SSDs were back then. Fuck.

My PC is currently 512GB SSD boot drive and 3TB LVM from a 1/2TB HDD. Those HDDs are getting pretty old now so I probably should replace them at some point but I resent having to pay the prices they ask right now. Maybe I should just uninstall half of my steam library that I realistically won't play any time in years or ever again. Reduce my storage needs. Data backups only take like 50GB or so.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah real backups are typically not even half of what we use, I bet about 2/3 is useless junk we could never be arsed to delete

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Second hand SSDs are getting kinda tempting tbh. But even they have seen their prices rise. Wish I bought all of the 512GB ones I saw for £10 each now. Got plenty of SATA ports, why shouldn't I use them?

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    In late 2024 I managed to get a good MVME 512GB SSD for less than 40€! It also clearly has a DRAM cache because it's really fast. That SSD probably costs at least four times as much now, I should have gotten another one

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