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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.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

selfhosting/homelab. Originally started just using retired gaming PC parts to build a server. All it cost was the power to run the system. Years later and with more things/content I have, I just added a 5x 18tb hard drives and 3x 8tb. Just the 5 18tb drives was like $1500.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What can you possibly need more than 100TB of storage for?! Presumably some redundancy but still way more than I can imagine a personal need for.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have 65 TB of movies and shows for a Plex server. That is what the 5x 18tb drives are for. I download primarily REMUXes or highest quality available.

The other drives are for backing up photos, my server, and anything important.

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