You don’t even need much cash. An old N40L and four 250gb ssds will get you 750gb running Truenas and raid.
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kaboom36@ani.social 1 year agoYou can have large amounts of storage without being a hoarder, tbh in this day and age its just prudent to have an offline DRM free copy of your favorite media
If you have a bit of spare cash I can’t recommend building a NAS and setting up a jellyfin server enough, its really nice knowing that everything on it won’t disappear unless you will it
kalpol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 1 year ago
If only. I’m a student living in student accommodation. I can’t set up a NAS because hosting things on the network is against their policy, and I also wouldn’t feel comfortable having that type of hardware in my room. And if electricity bills skyrocket because of me, I’ll be forced to pay them.
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 1 year ago
You could attach an external drive to a slim laptop or low-power PC like a Pi, only accessible by yourself, and technically you’ve got a media server!
You can host things from a virtual machine on your main computer, with a chunky external drive attached, if you wanted. :) That’s the fun part, you can start from the bottom and expand as your knowledge and space allow!
You could also run services from a paid hosting server, but I don’t think the returns would be great for packing tons of data on there. :p