That's a good deal. Microcenter was selling a WD 20TB external HDD for $600. Didn't end up pulling the trigger 'cause I'm going for a 2 drive Raid1 config on my janky setup and $1350 w/ taxes is way too steep.

Yeah,

So Home is a separate 1.8TB NVME drive... But under home is my home directory, and under that is a half-dozen NAS mounts, including my Plex stuff. collection of ISO images. ;-)

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Nope, you are exactly on.

Noob, just use sudo, less chars!

ZFS it

Well TIL … I subscribed to the first two but the last one didn't work for some reason.

But I learned a few things today, which is cool. ;-)

that is always the most important. thanks for sharing!

I don't need a raw video older than a day after the video is finished. I also don't need TBs of legally acquired content. I also don't need TBs of archived YouTube videos. I don't really need a NAS. I don't need a phone. We don't really need any of this tech stuff actually.

To answer your question more seriously, they're nice to have sometimes, instead of having to re-edit finished videos to make a compilation or something. I'm also hoping that maybe I'll see some success some day and be able to hire a more skilled editor (or even just me from the future with improved skills) to turn old media into feature-length films or just better versions of what I released. I dunno. It's data hoarding, but when I do want it, it's super nice to have.

I've also seen multiple professional creators talk about regretting not keeping the original footage from their old videos, so I'm not making that mistake. It's just nice to have it if you ever do want it, and I have the skills to archive it myself on the cheap, as compared to paying something like BackBlaze $7/TB/mo.

Just checked and my average video this year is currently at 400GB, so that's $4*2 for redundancy, so $8 per week aka $35/mo. If it were in BackBlaze, my subscription fee would go up by $12 per month forever, and it'd currently be at $630/mo, with zero redundancy. When I frame it like that, I'd be a fool not to do it!

Are you living in or willing to move to Spokane, WA? I will say, I might be bias, but it is nice here.

Yeah, I've considered doing that, but most of my media is static and doesn't change and, with my upload speeds, would take literal days to sync. So I just have a set of HDDs that I keep across the state. I'll loose some if everything fails, but at least I'll have most of it.

Lately, I'm considering it.

That's an option?

Now that’s a good idea

What he said. DF won't take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.

What he said. DF won't take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.

What he said. DF won't take into account the contents of mount points within a directory.