Digital Goods Are No Goods At All

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Re: Digital Goods Are No Goods At All

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2.6X the cost on large drives.

4TB:

https://www.amazon.com/Gigastone-Enterp ... WHQ56?th=1 $999 for 4
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-IronWolf ... V3CK9?th=1 $380 for 4

Prices do not include cases.

Some of my WD Blue and Black drives were over 10 years old, continuously-powered but spun down, and still worked fine.
Boot drives on the laptops are SSD and fast, but for the NAS I don't need the speed to serve up audio, video and documents.
The speed will be limited by NAS server, USB and network.
Particularly when the SSDs are $620 more for the same capacity.
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mediatechnology wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2024 4:07 pm 2.6X the cost on large drives.

4TB:

https://www.amazon.com/Gigastone-Enterp ... WHQ56?th=1 $999 for 4
https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-IronWolf ... V3CK9?th=1 $380 for 4

Prices do not include cases.

Some of my WD Blue and Black drives were over 10 years old, continuously-powered but spun down, and still worked fine.
Boot drives on the laptops are SSD and fast, but for the NAS I don't need the speed to serve up audio, video and documents.
The speed will be limited by NAS server, USB and network.
Particularly when the SSDs are $620 more for the same capacity.
Good point. However, to be fair, I do not need more than maybe 2 TB in total. As of today, all my files consist of less that 200 GB, so 1 TB would probably last a long time for me.
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As of today, all my files consist of less that 200 GB, so 1 TB would probably last a long time for me.
You need more stuff. :lol:
I have that much in music alone.
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mediatechnology wrote: Sun Dec 08, 2024 8:34 pm
As of today, all my files consist of less that 200 GB, so 1 TB would probably last a long time for me.
You need more stuff. :lol:
I have that much in music alone.
I usually try to purge my data as most as I can. If I have videos which are not relevant for their purpose in Ultra-HD or similar, I will usually compress them. I also have been using rdfind in Linux to find and remove duplicate files, which were many.
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