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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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How much do you spend on maintaining your data hoard? (alien.top)
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(Hopefully this is an acceptable question. It's my first time posting to this subreddit.)

Hoarding data is something that comes naturally to me, but unlike the average poster here my technical knowledge is limited. That can all be learned, but something I was curious about is roughly how much income one needs to maintain a sizable data hoard. I see all those crazy set ups with terrabytes and terrabytes of data, back-ups upon back-ups, people recommend services or software.

I myself have a modest living situation, several roommates, a single room of my own, the usual for someone starting out in the world. I'm not here to complain, I just need to know what my goals are and what I'm getting myself into by answering this call from my brain.

So is it possible to meaningfully hoard data on a budget by scraping together whatever storage I can, or is it better to focus on one's career until they're in a good enough place to afford a "proper setup" ?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well my story goes:

  1. Laptop without a screen, windows, manual 'acquisition' of content, single usb 2tb ssd (4 months) - plex only (200$ i think)
  2. A tiny factor optiplex (with hw acceleration finally), still windows (3 months) - plex + started to use arrs (+200$)
  3. Switch to ubuntu & docker containers, added two external hdds 12tb + 18 tb (8 months) - plex, jellyfin, self hosted password manager etc + extensive monitoring with prometheus & exporters + everything behind a reverse proxy on own domain with SSO (+800$)
  4. Bought a huge case, i7 13700k, 64 gigs of ram, 5x12tb exos drives, put all in proxmox on vms, drives in raidz1, designated previous pc and drives as offsite backup (present) - 51+ services, self hosted google photos (immich), drive, usenet (+2500$ or so), plex, jellyfin, multiple arrs for different qualities etc.

So yeah, just start with whatever you have, it'll rip your finances downhill from there :D