I’ve been putting off having a local copy of the series and movies I watch because I still can access them quickly and cheaply enough in some streaming service, I think it’s time to plan ramping up my selfhosted setup.

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    1 year ago

    You can get refurbed drives for under $50.

    New ones that aren’t white label (which, nothing wrong with that) for 4 TB are about $100.

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      1 year ago

      WD Red 4TB drives are only around $70 new, and they’re built for constant use in NAS devices.

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        1 year ago

        Those would be the SMR drives, if you don’t want that you’re looking at about $84.

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          I see, I got a WD Red Plus for myself for around that price, and it looks like that’s CMR. The base WD Red is SMR, though.

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            Yep! The Plus/Pro line is the good shit. The base models of WD drives are not great now, especially if you’re going to set up a RAID array of some sort.