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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I disagree. I very much want something like this at some point for media storage. One of these babies could replace all of my spinning disk drives.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Make sure you make backups - it’s better to have multiple small drives in case of failure than one big, but in any case 3-2-1 backups!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

I only 3-2-1 my photos and configs. No need to back up my Linux isos

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Then I guess I disagree for a different reason—the ballpark estimate definitely helped me conceptualize how far that storage would go for me.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't say the bitrate of said movies so it is indeed useless

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

It’s a ballpark average. The point is that it translates to “a holy shit ton of movies”. I need to store a holy shit ton of movies.