Buy old servers.
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QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ram and HDD prices: 📈
Me: 😭
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hule@lemmy.world 2 months ago
How old are we talking?
modus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Punch cards are cheap.
ikidd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I run on dual Xeon R410s with 128Gb of RAM. 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.
Bidah@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
I have 1 tb usb
Bidah@thelemmy.club 2 months ago
Buy from third world then
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I had purchased first 12TB drive for 4 bay NAS last summer. These are fuckton expensive so couldnt get all 4. I finally saved up and bought 2nd 12TB drive to get to RAID 1 for redundancy. Not even month passed, WD reports no more drives. Shop where I got one reports out of stock. FUCK!
Fuck AI and fuck big tech. I got my 12tb cloud and will give you 0 money in near future.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
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.
heatermcteets@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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 my upgrade could now be much further way pushed me to just do it.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I had two 20TB drives in my cart three months ago for $350 each. Today they’re $420
Void@feddit.nu 2 months ago
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.
EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I needed up buying these $420 20TB Ironwolf Pro drives from Microcenter, so see if you can order online from there.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 2 months ago
You can still go with unraid and buy more, smaller drives. Buy used SAS drives and an HBA. I recently bought a refurbished Dell optiplex with 32 gigs of ram and some i5 processor off eBay for 100€. SAS drives are really loud and consume more energy than consumer HDDs, but they last very long and are way cheaper.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Cant. My nas is weak and cant run unraid. Raid5 and Raid6 is what I can achieve.