Hey all you beautiful selfhosters,

What are your suggestions for frugally obtaining HDDs in the current economic climate? Specifically the EU (Netherlands).

I’m looking at second hand drives, but even those go for €100+ now, with bad sectors and all.

Can we organise a collective AI datacenter robbery and doll out some stolen drives? 😁

  • Smurfi@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I reckon I need about 10TB of RAID 1 for a decent Jellyfin media server

    • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
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      4 days ago

      If you’re willing to run at least 4 drives, RAID5 is good too. You get 75% of the space and as long as only one drives dies, you can rebuild the array without data loss. Ideally.

    • antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 days ago

      I have a 2tb ssd for my media server. I haven’t filled it yet, but I do sometimes delete things. Don’t tell anyone.