PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For::Sony says Mythbusters and more Discovery TV shows are going away whether you bought them or not

  • Chocrates@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I stopped piraring when I graduated college and streaming started to be wonderful. It is now a bleak hellscape that is more expensive than ever. Time to buy 20tb of hard drives and install Jellyfin I guess :(

    • CalicoJack@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      On the bright side, 20TB of hard drives is relatively cheap these days if you buy used. They’ll pay for themselves in a year if you kill the streaming services.

      Happy sailing

        • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          1 year ago

          Might as well just rent a server at that point, more memory and performance for basically the same price.

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            1 year ago

            You’re not getting a rented VPS for the cost of a 12tb hdd. You’re not getting any space with a server for that cost.

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              1 year ago

              12tb is literally $100 right now new. also my fellow hoarders, save a bookmark to that site it’s great.

              If you want to hit eBay and buy used disks, you can probably build something with redundancy and 20tb+ for around $300. If you’ve got a machine laying around and don’t plan on downloading everything on every service, you can grab 16tb used for $100, use one drive for parity, and the spend $50 when you run out of space for another 8tb.

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                1 year ago

                I run drivebender and a whole JBOD setup with random storage in it for this purpose. It works great and has been through 3 different homes and over 8 years now. Drives become cold storage when I upgrade a new one.

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                  1 year ago

                  Yeah, I went a little more overkill. I got a rack for free, and I have a Dell CS24 (that’s probably due to upgrade just for power savings at this point) that connects to a Rackable 3016. This runs unRAID, so I end up with the same thing roughly you have - JBOD with parity that I can bring any disk to, and 16 bays to fill before I have to start cycling drives out. So I check disk prices, when something tickles my fancy, I buy a new disk and shove it in there and it just keeps growing. If I had to do it today, I’d probably do it a bit differently just because the drive density, but it’s been going strong for 7-8 years now.

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                    1 year ago

                    Nice, I’ve got a 24 bay sunmicro box, I tossed old hardware into it just to run it…I have a few 12 tb drives in there alongside with my old 2Tb drives.

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      1 year ago

      Heh, I’m about at capacity with my 20 tb of storage. I think I’m getting myself a Synology NAS for Christmas. I’ll probably spend a couple grand on the device and the drives, but it’s totally worth it to own everything. No regrets.

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        1 year ago

        Amazon gifted me one a loooong time ago. Useful for storage but apps aren’t supported on older models really.

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          That makes sense. Currently I have my raid split, so 10tb are primary media storage and 10tb are backup. My plan is to set my internal raid to be entirely media storage and use the Synology as just a simple network backup system. This will at least double my storage, good enough for now.