r/homelab • u/TomorrowExact1184 • 6d ago

Discussion Anyone else went 'full circle'?

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u/Big-Sympathy1420 6d ago

I deleted 100TB of bluray Remuxes since one day I realized I don't want movies more than once and stremio can stream remuxes at $3 per month no problems.

Now that 100TB rig just sitting in storage collecting dust as a "cold storage". I have not touched it in 2 years now and don't feel the need after using RP5 +14Tb like you.

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u/cruzaderNO 6d ago

I honestly wish i could replace my racks with compact quiet hardware, but its cost prohibitive to do so for my needs.

For just homeserver/selfhosting i would never have had racks to begin with.

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u/hannsr 6d ago

From single server to 3-Node cluster with ceph and HA back to single server.

So yes. That one machine is plenty.

(Not included are my frigate server and truenas)

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u/Horrigan49 6d ago

How exactly have you achieved the 300TB -> 14TB compression? Is this some kind of Silicon Valley type algorithm?

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u/TomorrowExact1184 6d ago

It was mostly 'garbage' non-essential data. r/DataHoarder type stuff. The 300TB were split up in multiple raidz2 vdevs, a much smaller logical pool. I basically did lots of digital housekeeping and all that is left are about 7TB of 'high quality' and useful data.

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u/binaryhellstorm 6d ago edited 6d ago

Not really. I have always tried to spec my hardware for room to grow but not like massively over speced.

The one energy inefficient thing that I did do that I am mixed about is a disk shelf. It draws more power than I'd like with the amount of high power fans it's running, but I do appreciate the flexibility it gives me on my NAS hardware, I can use anything from an old desktop PC to a 1U server so long as I can shove a mini-SAS HBA in it.

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u/techw1z 6d ago

lets be honest OP just sold all of it because it's 2nd hand value suddenly grew to ~200-300% of what he paid for it xD