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selfhosting/homelab. Originally started just using retired gaming PC parts to build a server. All it cost was the power to run the system. Years later and with more things/content I have, I just added a 5x 18tb hard drives and 3x 8tb. Just the 5 18tb drives was like $1500.
Yeah me as well.
Had a cheap server that had 2 x 2tb for stuff I wanted to access while away
Then turned into 3 x 8tb for redundancy and ZFS
Then turned into 2 x 3 x 20tb for dual redundancy and ZFS1
Now I want to upgrade to ECC memory and the cpu, Mobo, and ram will likely cost over $1k.
Plus with more hardware it will use more power. I'm at 125w normal usage. That costs me $284 a year to run my stack.
What can you possibly need more than 100TB of storage for?! Presumably some redundancy but still way more than I can imagine a personal need for.
I have 65 TB of movies and shows for a Plex server. That is what the 5x 18tb drives are for. I download primarily REMUXes or highest quality available.
The other drives are for backing up photos, my server, and anything important.