c/selfhosted · by altphoto@lemmy.today · 73d

I need some help

I can't decide between these two used drives: https://www.cdw.com/product/solidigm-d5-p5336-122.88-tb-solid-state-drive-2.5-internal-u.2-pci-ex/8455168?pfm=srh

and

https://www.cdw.com/product/solidigm-d5-p5336-61.44-tb-solid-state-drive-2.5-internal-u.2-pci-exp/7785193?pfm=srh

sure 61TB doesn't sound like much these days, but I'm only going to be making word docs for a few centuries. Plus the drives are used and so they come at a great discount!

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18 Comments

bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 29 pts · 73d (1 reply)

Buy the larger drive, saw it in half and use the two halfs in RAID 1.

altphoto@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 73d

Great idea! Thanks!

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 73d (1 reply)

Are you trolling us with your choice between 25K and 50K drives?

I would never trust that much data to a single drive.

irmadlad@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 73d

I would never trust that much data to a single drive.

Bingo. I've toasted a 10 TB drive before and I still get emotional about it.

i_stole_ur_taco@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 73d (4 replies)

Spend the extra 25k. It’s worth it in case you end up stuck trying to download a 62TB torrent and suddenly can’t!

irmadlad@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 73d (3 replies)

IIRC there used to be a ~700 TB torrent called 'a car'.

altphoto@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 73d (1 reply)

I wouldn't download a car! I'm not stupid. I'm going to download pornhub instead.

curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 7 pts · 73d

I think you may need more than 60TB for that.

lka1988@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 73d

Sneakernet

iamthetot@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 73d (4 replies)

Quick tech specs

With 122.88 TB capacity, you have ample space to store a vast number of images, extensive hours of video, or a large collection of songs

Understatement much?

altphoto@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 73d

Windows 25 requirements are pretty brutal lol.

altphoto@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 73d (2 replies)

"Large Collection of every song ever sang by every artist who has ever lived I assume. So like a good 250 years of continuous non repeating playback! Nice! And no moving parts!

curbstickle@anarchist.nexus · 3 pts · 73d (1 reply)

The average song is 3 minutes and 17 seconds long. At studio quality stereo and uncompressed wav (32 bit, 192kHz), thats about 290MB per song that'd be about... 206,897 songs.

altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 73d

Are you saying we threw away all those records made of plastic for no good reason?!!

irmadlad@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 73d (1 reply)

Ummmm....you have a problem I have never had. LOL Just looking at the pricing, that'd be a negative rafter man. My cap is 10 TB. I could not imagine crashing a $52,029.99 / 122.88 TB SSD. I'm assuming that's USD. WOW!

altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 73d

Right? LOL. WTF! Who would use that sort of capacity?

leadore@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 72d (1 reply)

Why not both? Yikes.

altphoto@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 72d

I gotta go to WellsFargo to beg for a hard-drive loan.