Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

  • @TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub
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    8610 months ago

    I bought myself a raspberry pi for my birthday a few years ago.

    I now have thousands of dollars in hardware sitting in a server rack in my office. Whoops.

    • @droans@lemmy.world
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      1410 months ago

      A single 1TB drive should be enough for my Plex server, I said.

      123TB isn’t enough, I need more 18TB hard drives, I said.

      • @Krauerking@lemy.lol
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        210 months ago

        Oh my God… I’m running a jellyfin with 8TB… Don’t get me wrong I want more and will eventually figure out how to do it cheaper but that’s so impressive

        • @droans@lemmy.world
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          210 months ago

          The cheaper way is to either use shucked EasyStores when they’re on sale or to buy them from ServerPartsDeals or whatever the site is called.

          I got some 18TB drives for $200 from them. With EasyStores, 14TB drives are about the same price. The 18TB drives are refurbed and come with a shorter warranty, but you have to be rather careful with the EasyStores to maintain the warranty and you’ll still likely lose it.

          • @Krauerking@lemy.lol
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            210 months ago

            Just want you to know that you have just made my life better and now I have a dangerous game ahead of me to not buy so many of these drives and completely lose all my money