We need to, but can we?

How was setting up immich? Looking to expand and that seems interesting.

I had two 20TB drives in my cart three months ago for $350 each. Today they’re $420

It just can’t. This candle is burning fast at both ends.

I hope you're right b/c right now feels like the classic "market can stay irrational longer than we can stay liquid" type situation.

Beginner here. What do you mean by a Samba share? Do you mean a shared network folder? Or something more elaborate?

Realistically it's worse than that right? Where is your second and third 12tb drive for back ups? Raid is a nice to have but meaningless when it comes to back ups.

Yes they mean a SMB share. A type of network share that works (mostly) with Linux and windows.

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 12 acronyms.

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I run on dual Xeon R410s with 128Gb of RAM (2013?). Got them for free, on Kijiji. Runs Proxmox on both and a pile of VMs. Dual GB nics, 6 SAS bays, HBA in IT mode for ZFS. Has iLo for OOB management, or whatever the Dell equivalent is.

I mean, it's not fast, but each server has 24 cores and I can chunk PDF files fairly quickly for RAG on 10 cores and have plenty for mail server, Nextcloud, K8S running some side hustle apps, etc, etc. Kind of a noisy prick when it winds up though.

Yeah. I have a RAIDz2 on super old version of FreeNAS. 8x4TB.

I’ve been needing to upgrade for about a year now. I’ve been waiting for the prices to go lower…. News about WD forced my hand for 8x18TB. Not $$ I was looking to spend, but fomo that my upgrade could now be much further away pushed me to just do it. :(

Give it a go, I just finished the docker with tailscale setup. Using parts of this guide from Alex from tailscale https://youtu.be/guHoZ68N3XM (for the ones saying don't post yt links, I've not seen an add in the past 6 years or so, just use revanced)
2 hickups I had to overcome: a dns issue and different gpu passthrough then jellyfin uses). Reason was unpriviliged lxc in proxmox in both cases. But I prefer an lxc in this case.
Just lost 2hrs looking back at old photos, it works great! Rdy for introducing it to my non tech wife!

Yes just one homelab server.

Actually even its on 1 Linux VM (but that doesn't mean you should also use a single VM). Anyways tldr; Yes.

I run gitea on a different kind of internet.......

Duh

Most of my storage is media - movies and series. Immich, Nextcloud and personal files take little less than 300GB. I do backups weekly to NAS storage, monthly to storage SSD in my PC and to an external HDD. I am looking into way to somehow be able to backup to a rpi3 that I have installed at my father's place. This might cover my 3-2-1 needs, just need to figure out that 1.

Cant. My nas is weak and cant run unraid. Raid5 and Raid6 is what I can achieve.

do NOT open SMB to the internet. You will get crypto'd in minutes. Just a warning for any newbs coming here.

on the plus side, when the AI bubble pops, hardware will be soooooo cheap

Could you also have a row for english?

• NAS: A weird spinny thing where you store your data. Both over the network.
• RAID: Multiple weird spinny things working together to recover the lost data if one of the weird spinny things dies.
• SSD: A weird spinny thing that doesn't spin. Currently prohibitively expensive, so can be ignored.
• SMB: A language that computers use to share files from the weird spinny things or printers with each other.
• ZFS: A method that your computer uses to keep track of how and where your files are on the weird spinny things.

I've got 200TB of HDDs all with 80,000+ hours on them :(

Need should*

Pray they don't break in the next 4 years.
I'll join you

Pretty easy.

Are they more spinny than they are weird? Or weirder than they are spinny?

Time to repurpose all of my random mixed capacity HDDs in a bag somewhere, I guess.

Drives have always been more expensive where I live due to taxes and extra "pirate taxes" they stick on anything you can store data on. But now they are even worse, so sad. $589 for 16TB Toshiba N300 was the cheapest "new" ones I could find at a glance.

I needed up buying these $420 20TB Ironwolf Pro drives from Microcenter, so see if you can order online from there.

Sadly the import taxes from the states would almost double it. I think I can find somewhat cheaper drives in Germany if I looked hard though.

Oh you’re outside the U.S. yeah that’s a pickle. Microcenter is a brick and mortar store here so I’d definitely recommend checking for your local equivalent.

The SSDs are definitely weirder than they are spinny but otherwise it depends. A 7200RPM weird spinny thing is for example more spinny than a 5400RPM but if you take 3 of the 5400RPM in a RAID, then the spinnines is aggregated, making it more spinny than a 7200RPM. But in doing so, you are multiplying the weirdiness, making it exponentially more weird than a single 7200RPM weird spinny thing. This has to do with how the weirdiness particles flow between the spinny things to make sure that you'll always be able to recover the weirdiness of one of the spinny things from the other spinny things in case of an untimely demise.

This is definitely food for thought. Junk food, but technically food.

Exactly. I've got a 4TB mirror setup for my pictures I reclaimed from Google Photos, and music, and other important stuff. It also backs up to iDrive which is really affordable. (Hopefully stays that way...)

What sucks is I scored a deal on a pair of WD Red 4TBs to add, but one was defective (secondhand, and WDs RMA procedure is STRICT.) , so now I'm stuck with a half expansion I don't know what to do with and it's kinda not responsible for me to spend >100 bucks completing the mirror right now.

My media collection isn't on a mirror or backed up or anything because it's naturally way larger than everything else, but I think for the stuff that truly matters, this will see us through.