My take is, I’d rather spend double on all that (becuase I can), support and share with other users, than give a dime to fucking corpos pushing ai slop and promoting fascist military invasions (that’d be Spotify).
Hard drives are so expensive I’m considering buying a 2U chassis and using old drives to expand my NAS as opposed to replacing small drives with larger ones. The only thing holding me back is the effort and the noise.
I have 20 500GB HDDs I got for free off a client who was disposing of some old desktops, daisy chained through a series of powered USB hubs currently hosting my Jellyfin and Immich content.
I would regret the power usage of running 20 small hard drives as opposed to a few big ones but the cost of electricity is definitely still smaller than the cost of big hard drives
Homeserver in this economy?
Yeah man, think of all the money you’ll save on streaming subscriptions once you build it
(Just ignore the usenet, VPN, and indexer costs)
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My take is, I’d rather spend double on all that (becuase I can), support and share with other users, than give a dime to fucking corpos pushing ai slop and promoting fascist military invasions (that’d be Spotify).
Oh I’m right there with you.
Not only that, then I own my media. Sure its more work, but I actually find it fun so win win
Uhhh… I just pirate it.
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Hard drives are so expensive I’m considering buying a 2U chassis and using old drives to expand my NAS as opposed to replacing small drives with larger ones. The only thing holding me back is the effort and the noise.
I have 20 500GB HDDs I got for free off a client who was disposing of some old desktops, daisy chained through a series of powered USB hubs currently hosting my Jellyfin and Immich content.
I regret nothing.
I would regret the power usage of running 20 small hard drives as opposed to a few big ones but the cost of electricity is definitely still smaller than the cost of big hard drives