Do you store all your media? And how? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by bob@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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For a piracy-oriented community I'm surprised this isn't discussed as much.

Do you ever store media, or delete them after watching? How do you store them?

I personally have 12TB worth of hard drives (3x4TB) in a JBOD configuration. Been wanting to upgrade my hard drives (they're 6 years old) but I'm still a little skeptical of the helium drives and whether they will last...

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[-] kowcop@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Buy cheap 4 bay nas and 3-4 disks (3 disks minimum) and setup raid 5 which will allow one disk failure. If a disk fails, pop disk out, put new one in (equivalent size or larger) and it will rebuild.

You could probably try build one using normal pc hardware and freenas software, but I personally find a purpose built nas operating system less of a headache and fairly cost effective

[-] bob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

i've been looking into snapRAID. It's software-based and seems to work great if you don't write/delete that much. Doesn't require a NAS setup too, it can work on an existing install and hard drives with existing data!