Hey all you beautiful selfhosters,

What are your suggestions for frugally obtaining HDDs in the current economic climate? Specifically the EU (Netherlands).

I’m looking at second hand drives, but even those go for €100+ now, with bad sectors and all.

Can we organise a collective AI datacenter robbery and doll out some stolen drives? 😁

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      LTO-8 is 12TB native per cartridge. A used LTO can be as little as $300 USD with a 12TB cart $65ish. Ancient LTO-3 can be had for like…$5…and stores upto 800GB per tape.

      how do you find so cheap LTO drives?

      how do I carry RF remote signal from each room back to main unit…oh, I don’t need to, could I make a web ui that controls the shuffler via a Pi to RS-232, that you access on your phone?..Shit…i could do this.

      you could also do an RF IR remote bridge with two minimal Pis

    • worhui@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Use a hdmi to ip adapter to stream to multiple locations on a local network. Learned about them when looking at security cameras.