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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Hello my fellow hoarders, quick question, what is the cheapest way to have a lot of storage? (alien.top)

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So awhile ago I got a computer with a motherboard with 6 sata ports and that was doing good but only 6 ports limits me. I love buying used hard drives so is there a cheaper way to use all these hard drives, like a multi bay enclosure or maybe a server???

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I do mini PCs and USB hard drives. More frequently accessed stuff and smaller files (think music, pictures, documents, backup repositories) resides in about 6TB of SSD storage. The only way you could go cheaper is probably raspberry pis or something but they're not nearly as good in terms of compute for the money.