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What's a stupidly expensive adult purchase that you now swear by that you would buy again in a heartbeat? (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Running my own storage and personal media server.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've been debating trying this but I'm not an IT expert, so feeling overwhelmed and nervous to even start. Do you have any guides or websites that you could recommend?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

If you go with a out-of-the-box solution you don't really need much expertise. You just click through a series of almost self-explanatory installation steps and it just works. I'd recommend Synology. It's very simple and just works flawlessly with minimum effort.

Now, this is lemmy and the foss/privacy people will probably have me crucified for saying that ... so if you care about that, I'd suggest scrolling/asking in [email protected].

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks

[–] Fjdybank 2 points 1 week ago

I second Synology. Have similar background (no IT experience). Bought a d923+ and have been setting up different options. Within 6 months I have setup:

a self hosted Immich account for all my photos (downloaded everything from Google Photos)
Plex for all my media (unexpected benefit, no longer paying for several streaming apps)
local backup for home/exterior video cameras

I highly recommend Marius Hosting for simple, step by step, guides. For example: https://mariushosting.com/how-to-install-immich-on-your-synology-nas/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm stuck on the "expensive" part still. I built one, but very quickly ran out of storage. I'm looking to buy some 18tb drives but holy hell they are expensive.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I’m looking to buy some 18tb drives but holy hell they are expensive.

Well, I'm running 9x 20TB drives ...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How much were they? And any regrets?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Around $340 each. Not so far, but I did just hit 70%, I have to think about expanding soon ...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

without asking you to incriminate yourself.....

I always wonder: what the hell is everyone saving so much of?

like I do photogrammetry sometimes and even then, if I backup all source imagery, I still won't fill a couple of terabytes...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Piracy. I have around 50TB of TV shows, 8TB of movies and 1TB of music.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

ah. that would do it. yarr matey

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Got a list of suggestions?. I have 50 tbh free and slowly doing a big clean/replace with prefered groups, would love 'forever' reccomends. Little tinfoil hat but looking to buffer the enshittification of commercial services.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I don't really have a system either. Obviously I started out with the shows I personally like and watch, but at this point I'm just picking up random shows I stumble upon.

[–] Fjdybank 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What's your configuration, if you don't mind sharing?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

12 Bay Synology NAS, with 8 of the drives in a raid 6, the 9th is a hot spare. A total of 108TB usable space.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

That's useful thanks