Comment on Storage?! In this economy!?

Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• unit327@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, it’s half joke, half backup territory (so the drives could just be offline mostly).

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  RAIDz2 for 5.5TB with 2-disk redundancy.

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