I'm in the unfortunate phase of my "homelab" where I have about 300TB of storage spread amongst 3 continents. Civilization will fail before I lose all of my data.
Ah but I have redundancy. The majority of the content on them has multiple copies stored and spread out, ready to be redistributed back to me via a p2p network.
Running RAID 0 on an array made of old 80gb HDDs from Toshiba laptops you found in a dumpster really gets the blood pumping. Makes you feel alive again
Old cable TV and satellite boxes often have hard drives, I think I used to find 500gb drives in there. But they have TONS of usage. I think I paid $1-2 for them.
Yeah, old DVR boxes were pretty fantastic when you just needed a lot of storage. They were one of the few places you could reliably find 1TB drives, back when those were still fairly new and expensive.
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throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works · 73 pts · 1y
orenj@lemmy.sdf.org · 58 pts · 1y
huh. I could use 16TB of storage... maybe I should get into this 'homelab' thing
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 1y
Famous last words
Agent641@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
See you, space cowboy!
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 37 pts · 1y
I would say that !selfhosted@lemmy.world is leaking, but I think most of the communities here tend to leak into each other anyway
billygoat@catata.fish · 9 pts · 1y
Tbf, that community is one of the most active that isn’t news or memes.
randombullet@programming.dev · 29 pts · 1y
I'm in the unfortunate phase of my "homelab" where I have about 300TB of storage spread amongst 3 continents. Civilization will fail before I lose all of my data.
Zelaf@sopuli.xyz · 11 pts · 1y
Look at Mr. Svalbard Global Seed Storage over here.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Earth is our home.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
amon@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
16TB of dubious HDDs and no backups what could go wrong?
kn33@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Ah but I have redundancy. The majority of the content on them has multiple copies stored and spread out, ready to be redistributed back to me via a p2p network.
qaz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
What do you use for the p2p network?
kn33@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I was being tongue in cheek. 🏴☠️
qaz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
I see, it's that kind of p2p network
Agent641@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Running RAID 0 on an array made of old 80gb HDDs from Toshiba laptops you found in a dumpster really gets the blood pumping. Makes you feel alive again
2ugly2live@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
I saw some short a out people harvesting them from old modems.
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Old cable TV and satellite boxes often have hard drives, I think I used to find 500gb drives in there. But they have TONS of usage. I think I paid $1-2 for them.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 1y
Ayuo, i have a great time scavenging fetch boxes from hard rubbish. Lowest sized drive in those is 1tb
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
Yeah, old DVR boxes were pretty fantastic when you just needed a lot of storage. They were one of the few places you could reliably find 1TB drives, back when those were still fairly new and expensive.
daggermoon@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Only 16? Rookie numbers.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Teach him how to beegfs and he will never run out of storage space again.
Zenoctate@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I would love to host my files physically!
Turret3857@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 1y
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Self hosted Private cloud is even easier.
decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
Ok but like aside from a backup of Wikipedia what are you storing that is that big
InputZero@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Arrrr, I won't be sharin me plunders with the likes of ye land lubber.
yellowbadbeast@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y
wikipedia is suprisingly small, actually. like under half a terabyte iirc.
megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y
I think most of the old laptops I’ve collected are sata.