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I think they are aiming for “cool stuff, easy mode” for those that want to pay for it.

That’s great and all, but if you’re creative there’s cheaper things you can do. Which to me that’s more fun anyways.

For your purposes, I would archive data onto Optical Media. Like archive disks (M-discs), or maybe you can get away with Blu-ray disks for a bit lower cost. That’s currently the only medium that will survive pretty much anything other than melting (solar radiation can’t ruin etched data)

You can have some SSD’s, but you may lose the data on them overtime, they do “bit rot” after a few years. So you may just want to keep them as a “restore medium” wherein you take the data off your optical disks and load it up onto the SSD’s for a good (fast) experience.

Or maybe do a combination of the two, that way if the data makes it on the SSD’s, then great! But you have some sort of more stable medium to fall back on.

Downside of course, is optical disks are starting to feel pretty small now :(

This is a great article but it definitely shows that you shouldn’t expect much

He’s not even reaching the IOPS of a single drive in his testing :(

I might have to find something else lol

Are your speeds poor?

Who cares about lights I just care about the end result LOL

You can do this with some ubiquiti equipment. Their in-wall AP’s have ports on them for you to plug in devices, and you can wirelessly mesh them to other AP’s

This isn’t an ideal setup though. You really should wire your AP’s whenever possible.