When I began building my server rig - which includes my torrenting setup - last year, I was able to find the 4TB 2.5 inch SATA SSD Samsung 870 EVO for about €300. I bought four of them, but now, I’m running out of space, so I checked a couple of retailers. Wowee. What is going on with these prices. 😂 Even Micron’s Crucial brand, which at some point was the more affordable option, is way past it’s curfew. 🤬
I just wanted to vent.
Since I’m one of those people who’d rather sleep in an anechoic chamber or at the very least use white noise or the likes in order to sleep, running HDDs doing random reads and writes next to my bed in my single room apartment is not a option.
Data hoarding with only 16TB?! scratches head
I’ve got: 10x 8TB drives (Raid5 with 8 and 2 spare) 8x 16TB drives in 2x 4-disc Raid5 (no spares yet) These 3 storage pools are for Plex/ Jellyfin (movies, TV, misc)
In another “lower power” server, some older 3TB x8 in Raid6 for files and pictures and whatnot.
I’ve been backing up data for family since the windows vista days, everyone so far has been happy to have stuff archived. Mostly I just back up their physical hard drives or their own backup drives.