What's everyone using to store media offline these days? Lately with what's going on I think I'm wanting to store media I enjoy (gonna be fun ripping vcds...) in some hard drive or something.
Interested in what kind of capacity, number of drives and how your drives are setup.
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@sequentialsnep I've got two 4TB SSDs in a mirrored setup on which I store both my data and a bunch of VMs for various servers, with backups to a machine in my basement and to an online storage provider, but honestly?
A Synology or QNAP NAS with two or four hard disks of whatever size you think you'll need for the forseeable future is usually more than enough, for backups the easiest option would be an external HDD and a safer one another NAS or old PC with one hard drives at friends or family
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@snep Cool! I'll check out those nas things in a bit!
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@sequentialsnep I've been using Synology NAS devices for a while now as their "Synology Hybrid RAID" (SHR) allowed me to mix capacities of drives and slowly upgrade capacity as my needs grew. This included replacing 4 bay enclosures with more modern and powerful ones without losing data.
Currently using a 4 bay 1819+ with 4x 8TB Seagate Ironwolf drives giving me about 21TB storage.
I've also picked up a 2 bay Asustor lite with a Seagate Exos 18TB and a free 3TB drive in JBOD format to act as a backup. I was really impressed with the value for money this represented over the Synology (tho recently NAS prices seem to have jumped up a lot) although I'm not sure if the larger devices offer something similar to the single disk redundancy with mixed drives.
I've currently been eyeing the Ugreen 4 bay intel N100 powered NAS enclosures - I believe you can replace the software if you wanted. Currently I'm using a little N100 box running proxmox to host my home assistant, jellyfin, pi-hole and a test OMV (Open Media Vault?) server.
I did briefly run jellyfin inside a docker container on the Synology 1819, but it really was noticeably slower for indexing media, and the little N100 machine has an SSD to let it serve the UI quickly.
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@arakin Very hardcore!
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@sequentialsnep I don't know how much I can help. But I have an 8TB HDD for backup media and stuff.
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@sequentialsnep NAS are nice :3
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@sequentialsnep I manually backup stuff to a second 1TB hard drive. It used to be my main hard drive a decade or so ago, but now its only purpose is Backups, since SSDs are now standard. Some stuff I also backup on one of my USBs.
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@sequentialsnep If what you mean by offline is a powered down backup accessed only when necessary, then we have some big external USB hard drives (12TB I think?) that backups are pushed to. If you just mean local storage, we have an oooold self-built NAS running 7x 3TB WD Red drives in RAID 6, but we're soon going to be building a new NAS as the core of the old one is about 10 years old and it's becoming suspect for bit rot and just how much power it uses.
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