Just picked up 17 x 1-TB HDDs at $120 total on craigslist. All WD, Seagate, and Toshiba.

What do we think?

  • maxgrav@alien.topOPBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I don’t plan to run them all simultaneously. I’ll have 3 data sets:

    1. My main storage 1 TB, with a syncing copy of the whole TB on another machine and 1 offline copy updated perhaps every few months.

    2. My family photos and videos, allocating 1 TB to the photographer of the family, with a synced copy attached to a digital photo frame.

    3. My home video media server hosted on a cloud storage app I wrote myself. I probably won’t put in any redundancy for that set and will focus on size.

    I haven’t learned RAID yet, but will sometime.