Santa came late last year, but hard

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Keep in mind data recovery vs drive size. Getting past ~16TB drives, it starts to become a question of whether the rest would be able to survive a restore of a failed drive if any are going to have remotely similar endurance. Obviously, the answer is going to be "yes" most of the time, but at a certain point, there are deminishing returns on the cost of the drives to where even a one to one price increase in the HDD per size might not be worth it all the same.

Kinda' a moot point if you're not going to raid them in any way for reliability, but worth a thought.

I've described this terribly, but Level1tech on YT talks about it sometimes in reviews.

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- This is me when I'm trying to be helpful after a full day of coding and my 2nd dose of Adderall has worn off. props for still telling him a brief overview along with where to find the info
  
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  What's wrong with their comment? Straight to the point, no unnecessary info.
  
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- Rebuild time? Yeah it'll take about that long.
  
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So you mean like literal piracy, you heisted them?

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- Yes, it was a chinese container ship. Resistance would have been futile.
  
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  The guys making $32 a day on Chinese ships don't get paid enough to care, that's why it's so easy to smuggle stuff to begin with.
  
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Sooo... Are you actually using the data that's going on these or is this more of a hoarding situation?

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- What does "using" mean? It's definitly a hoarding situation. I mostly store TV shows and movies. But I only watch a tiny fraction of them.
  
  It's not hoarding ... I'm actually archiving. Or something you tell yourself. Shut up, I don't need a reason. I don't have a Problem, leave me alone.
  
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  This guy archives
  
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  You're among friends here.
  
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  It's not hoarding ... I'm actually archiving. Or something you tell yourself. Shut up, I don't need a reason. I don't have a Problem, leave me alone.
  
  The meeting is on Tuesday nights at 5.
  
  Oh it's not DA.. (data anonymous) it's the local sneakerNet for doing old school swaps.
  
  Being a snack!
  
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  It's okay, dear! Just breathe! You'll be fine! Maybe there is some porn you'd like to watch among your data hoard? Violently masturbating might bring you down again, honey!
  
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  The archive must grow
  
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- Probably personal archive of games/movies/porn and backups, I'd do this if i got this honestly, and i think most of us would do the same, slap some block based deduplication and zstd compression and enjoy
  
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- Yes.
  
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I just got 2 of these (x22 version) for my Jellyfin. Supposed to be here tomorrow! I don't think I could drop $1k for that many.

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- If I could actually get those for 1000$ I would do that. Just spent 260€ for a new 16tb one...
  
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- Same except 4 of them. I ended up buying from serverpartsdeals though. recertified for $210 each. Had a small hiccup on my first batch but they came in quick and made it right. Now all my useless data has a home
  
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- I don’t think I could drop $1k for that many.
  
  I wish I could have ... storage is apprently way cheaper in the US.
  
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Super jealous. Half for storage and half for backup or just going all storage?

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- The idea is going for raid5 so that should be around 100TB of storage, minus the OS and apps, etcs. But easily 80TB+ net storage.
  
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  With drives that size, you should be talking RAID6, 80TB storage and 40TB checksum.
  
  Rebuilds will take a long time, and with RAID6 you can at least suffer 2 drives failures and continue to operate fully.
  
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  I use a 1tb ssd for the os/apps with my raid5 strictly for storage. Kinda nice if the os needs to be reinstalled or I want to migrate the raid cluster.
  
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  With that amount of storage I highly recommend RAID6.
  
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I kinda expected nsfw ai generated pic of Santa ...

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So…anywhere to get a bulk deal on these, preferably in a pack of 6?

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- I work at an IT company and we regularly supply hardware to clients. So I got these at B2B retail prices. My boss basically just handed me the bill the supplier issued to the company and said "you pay it".
  
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  How much did you paid for each?
  
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  I’ll give you tree fiddy.
  
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- Serverpartsdeals on eBay. I think that's their name. Pretty sure they only ship to USA though. At least that's what non-Americans on my favorite tracker always complains about.
  
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40tb of santa cumming? Wow

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- more like 120tb. and wow indeed!
  
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- There's 6 of them
  
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Are these hard drives or the beefiest SSDs I've ever seen?

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- I don't think 20TB SSDs exist, and if they do I probably couldn't afford one in a few hundred years.
  
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  Just gonna leave this here
  
  https://www.anandtech.com/show/12541/unlimited-5-year-endurance-100-tb-ssd
  
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  They do kioxia makes them https://smicro.eu/kioxia-cm6-30-72tb-nvme-pcie4x4-2-5-u-3-15mmsie-1dwpd-kcm6xrul30t7-1
  
  30tb SSD
  
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  100tb ssd exist. Onky $8,800! A steal!
  
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  You'd be surprised. I think the prices will drop dramatically after the first hundred.
  
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What about using those as Storj nodes?

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Too cool! You'll finally be able to download skyrim and fallout!

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There are oem drives out there which don't have the 5year warranty. I would check the drives serial numbers at the seagate homepage.

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