About 3TB of it are porn that I barely watch.

@matrix same, collecting is fun.

@NPC
Yeah it is. External Num 2 is 2TB OnlyFans leak from which I haven't watched a single second and YouTube archive of some channels. External Num 1 is ROMs and torrents plenty of which are there for archiving purposes only.
Tertiary Drive is where my the 3TB porn collection lives however it's basically unsorted.
I think I have entire Wikileaks somewhere too.
The rest is games, programs and various random shit I barely touch.

@matrix @NPC i have backup copies on hdd of my stuff

@matrix @NPC about 6tb on current pc of stuff

@matrix How do you even fill 3 TB with porn? I'm guessing it must be feature length movies in blu-ray quality.

@rasterman It's 3TB with games and pictures. The videos are 2.6TB and there's 19 578 of them.

@matrix Wow.

Don't you lose sleep thinking of the day the droves fail and you lose your stash?

@rasterman
A bit

@matrix fucking christ dude, you need a raid

@r000t @matrix raid? More like tape storage

@dyske @r000t I need a NAS

@matrix @dyske I'm p happy with my qnap but I've only been using it for a month

@r000t
I thought about Synology since their UI looks quite extensive and user friendly but the inability to upgrade makes me feel uneasy.
@dyske

@r000t @dyske So Synology DiskStation DS918+ is 15k CZK which is 4 drive. To make it worth it I need to use 8TB drives. WD Red (EFAX), 3,5"- 8TB times 4 is 24k. I would also need a UPS. I have no clue which one but they start at 4k CZK. Jesus christ that's a lot of money. (2k USD)

@r000t @dyske Plus a switch that supports link aggregation

@r000t @dyske
I just realized that I have no idea if the ethernet cable leading to my room is even capable of 1Gbps and I have no way of testing it because the ports on our router are only 100Mbps.

@matrix
Object storage then? Backblaze B2 is $5/TB/month billed by the GB
@dyske

@r000t
Not with my 500kb/s upload
@dyske

@matrix
oof

@matrix @dyske @r000t we all do

@r000t @matrix raid is not backup, just a help for better availability

@matrix WTF. The most storage space I had was a 320 GB external drive and my main 500 GB HDD which I last year replaced 'cause it was breaking, for a 1TB one and now feel like space will never run out.

This is insane!

@matrix
If I don't use something within a few weeks I delete it. I also regularly purge my image folders for non-awoo images.

@matrix Your drive naming conventions are an atrocity.