Why cheap storage solutions are not being developed or advertised to consumers?
a month ago by mountainRadish to c/datahoarder
I think we would all hoard data if it was cheap.
Today I had to suggest cloud storage. That's the cheapest and easiest to maintain.
There is optical storage solutions that is adequate for most consumers and even LTO tapes it is fast enough, can be produced cheaply but the drives are advertised to businesses and sold with that business premium cost.
This bugs me. Also the fear of being deported soon
It's not hoarding. It's securing. Cloud services can't be trusted to be secure and available in the long term, some of them not even in the short term. They are capricious and arbitrary in their unilateral termination of service without notice.
Average punters can’t be trusted either.
Whenever I go to my family’s houses to check the NAS’s, they are often turned off (or not turned back on after a power outage, or having been unplugged).
I would love to roll out some integrated, but modular solution with RAID, UPS, remote synchronisation and reporting, that doesn’t require a 19” rack.
Unfortunately, the rest of my family barely comprehend the need for a reliable backup, let-alone data sovereignty.
Because storage is not cheap.
Also the fear of being deported soon
i''m an american citizen, but i have family members there were also american citizens and they were deported nonetheless in the early 20th century -- you're right to be concerned.
My situation is worst, i am in middle east from the country at war with yours but I live and was born in an arabian country.
It is weird that I envy those people in America, I rather be them now.... maybe, I don't know.
I am no oay
Build an Unraid server out of any cheap hardware you have. Toss in any assortment of HDs you have lying around of any size. Very efficient, safe and easy to upgrade. Best computer purchase I’ve made since 2016 and I own two of them now.
Storage is incredibly cheap.
Spinning metal has been trending towards a penny a gigabyte for two decades. Things seem bad now but it’s only 3 cents a gigabyte like 2018.
Lto is also incredibly cheap by any measure in comparison to the past.
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Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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@lemmy.ml
Who are we?
We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.
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