Hey all you beautiful selfhosters,

What are your suggestions for frugally obtaining HDDs in the current economic climate? Specifically the EU (Netherlands).

I’m looking at second hand drives, but even those go for €100+ now, with bad sectors and all.

Can we organise a collective AI datacenter robbery and doll out some stolen drives? 😁

    • worhui@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Use a hdmi to ip adapter to stream to multiple locations on a local network. Learned about them when looking at security cameras.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      LTO-8 is 12TB native per cartridge. A used LTO can be as little as $300 USD with a 12TB cart $65ish. Ancient LTO-3 can be had for like…$5…and stores upto 800GB per tape.

      how do you find so cheap LTO drives?

      how do I carry RF remote signal from each room back to main unit…oh, I don’t need to, could I make a web ui that controls the shuffler via a Pi to RS-232, that you access on your phone?..Shit…i could do this.

      you could also do an RF IR remote bridge with two minimal Pis

    • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Yes. If I want to organize and dedupe what I have then I need enough storage to work on it, a lot of my storage is spinning rust 7-15 years old, and if I have the space I’m going to use it. I have family photos and a music library going back to 2005. Too many things like old games need custom fixes installed to work correctly on modern hardware, and the internet isn’t as permanent as it was cracked up to be.

      There’s plenty of reasons to hold on to older data.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I still have some IOMEGA Zip drives. LOL Man, I remember when those seemed inexhaustible.