So is there a raid 12 for my 13 500GB drives?
Comment on Storage?! In this economy!?
ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Frugally (legally) obtained HDDs are still going to cost you a lot of money, there is no way around that at the moment. If you need it, pay up and be done with it. If you just kind of want it, start sorting through your piles of data you don’t actually need (yes, you have that you, atop lying to yourself) to free up space for things you do actually need.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago unit327@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Don’t forget the power bill, even if they sit idle most of the time. 12 drives * 5 watts * 24 hours * 365.25 days ~= 525 kwh. That would cost me $157 aud a year for electricity.
If I instead bought a 6TB drive brand new I’d break even after 3 years, assuming the 500GB drives are $0.
- Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah, it’s half joke, half backup territory (so the drives could just be offline mostly).
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago RAIDz2 for 5.5TB with 2-disk redundancy.
True, but it’ll be nice to have enough space to let the future arr stack I plan on spinning up, roam free