| ▲ | tamimio 4 hours ago |
| What cost?! I have jelly installed on an old optiplex I got for around $20, i7 16ram (it’s actually proxmox, that would be too much for jelly alone) |
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| ▲ | Yokolos 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 4TB HDD is now close to 200 Euros. What do you mean "what cost"? |
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| ▲ | dylan604 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | How many streaming platforms do you pay for each month? The cost of that drive is probably 2-3 months worth of streaming rental payments. | | |
| ▲ | pdpi 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | You still need to add to that the cost of the films/series themselves. (You can choose not to and sail the seas instead, of course, but then it's no longer an equivalent exchange). | | |
| ▲ | dylan604 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Well, yes, but we've already established that entertainment is an ongoing expense. You just have to decide to spend that outgo in a different manner than giving it to the streamers. You start with a storage pool and way to play its contents back, and then you start to populate that storage pool. I have not once suggested getting entertainment for free. I have only suggested there are other ways of being entertained than by the streamers with a large portion of the same content. |
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| ▲ | SlimyHog 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | You don't have to store the media indefinitely |
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| ▲ | chimeracoder 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Have you looked at storage prices recently? |
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| ▲ | Forgeties79 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Seriously I can’t even get my refurb enterprise drives for reasonable prices anymore. Used to pay like $150 for 14TB ultrastars now it’s like $300 for 12TB exos | | |
| ▲ | bityard an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Last night I found a 3TB external USB 3.0 drive at the bottom of my "computer junk" drawer that I had completely forgotten I owned. It felt like winning the lottery. | |
| ▲ | coldpie 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's ok to delete things. | | | |
| ▲ | Vaushite 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Which is $25 per TB |
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| ▲ | tamimio 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yes I am aware, it is why you don’t buy new, there are thousands of used computers out there that I made a side hustle out of buying them and reselling them after some cleaning and fixing, so many I found that’s beyond to list here, but for example I got asus zenbook 14 for $12 because it didn’t boot (which was just a loose connection inside), a macmini m1 for $50, and many other parts and finds. I even have a thinkpad with proxmox and run as a server, uptime now is more than a year. | | |
| ▲ | ron_woods an hour ago | parent [-] | | I'm curious where are you going to find these used machines (EBay, govt auction, Facebook Marketplace, etc...)? I have been wanting to setup a home NAS and home server but am not paying these prices. |
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| ▲ | naravara 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| It’s the storage prices that tend to give people sticker shock. Though for just being a media server you can get away with a spinning disc rather than an SSD. But they’re still kind of insane right now. |
