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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/Salt-Citron-5628 on 2023-07-04 10:32:04+00:00.
Hi fellow tinkerers!
I have been running proxmox on an old laptop with 4TB external HDD for a number of years now, primarily for plex, and some low value data stuff. I have experimented with NextCloud in the past, but never for anything serious.
The past few days I noticed apple increased the price of icloud storage to £8.99 per month for 2TB and we use just over 200GB annoyingly so we are paying for loads we dont need in terms of phone cloud storage. I have also had a long held ideal of ditching the lockins and problematic relationship with big tech companies.
I happened to aquire an older shuttle mini PC with an intel i7-4790K which seems about 4 times better performance on benchmarks than my old laptop, and appears to use similar or within 10 watts of power consumption.
Now my dilema, I need around 4TB of storage space for my media library, and would be ample for also using with nextcloud (or similar) for my iphone storage for photos etc for me and my wife.
At which point I would prefer to get a new drive I think so I have a little more trust its not about to break… I have looked into something like an Iron Wolf 3.5" or a Samsung 4TB 870 QVO (about double the price, but performance much better and potentially much lower failure rate?)
After that I think I will still need cloud backup as I cant risk losing that data, so something like backblaze B2 for the important stuff… Please help me come to a sensible way forward! I think I have the following main options:
- Just stick with icloud, accept that cloud storage costs money
- Get 1/2 iron wolf disks
- Get 1 SSD
TLDR: With data ownership comes great responsibility…
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