▲ 158 ▼ Storage?! In this economy!? (lemmy.zip) submitted 4 months ago by Smurfi@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world 94 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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? 😁
[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 months ago (3 children) So is there a raid 12 for my 13 500GB drives? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] unit327@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago (1 child) Don't forget the power bill, even if they sit idle most of the time. 12 drives * 5 watts * 24 hours * 365.25 days ~= 525 kwh. That would cost me $157 aud a year for electricity. If I instead bought a 6TB drive brand new I'd break even after 3 years, assuming the 500GB drives are $0. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago Yeah, it's half joke, half backup territory (so the drives could just be offline mostly). permalink fedilink source parent [–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago* RAIDz2 for 5.5TB with 2-disk redundancy. All of a sudden USB becomes important. 😅 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] unit327@lemmy.zip 4 points 4 months ago (1 child) Don't forget the power bill, even if they sit idle most of the time. 12 drives * 5 watts * 24 hours * 365.25 days ~= 525 kwh. That would cost me $157 aud a year for electricity. If I instead bought a 6TB drive brand new I'd break even after 3 years, assuming the 500GB drives are $0. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago Yeah, it's half joke, half backup territory (so the drives could just be offline mostly). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago Yeah, it's half joke, half backup territory (so the drives could just be offline mostly). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago* RAIDz2 for 5.5TB with 2-disk redundancy. All of a sudden USB becomes important. 😅 permalink fedilink source parent