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@axelrafn Storage costs being high is no doubt the more annoying problem of the two.

@mkj @axelrafn
agree.

Cloud storage cost for private persons has skyrocketed in price and is no longer worth it.

But to be honest, at lest 50% of your data is probably just crap that you could clean out if you put some effort into it.

@scottgal They are wonderful, I have two boxes with them and two physical servers as well. I am more thinking about physical disks for my homelab though.

@axelrafn Ah yeah those are NUTS. I'vebeen pricing out a new NAS and the disks are just CRAZY expensive.

@scottgal yup, I made a #TrueNAS box, 4U unit, and started with 4x4TB used server disks, now I want to expand that and use the remaining 8 bays I planned out but it somehow feels like a down payment for a nice house if I want anything other than used, small stuff.

If I had the money I would like to go for 10-12TB disks in the remaining bays, but that can go upwards of €2300 from the store I mainly shop at, and that is WITH a 20% discount currently..

@axelrafn @scottgal Why not incrementally add storage as mirrors? Sure, your overall storage efficiency is less but it gives you much greater flexibility in your upgrade path.

I recently went from a 6 x 8TB RAIDZ2 to 2 x 18 TB mirror for about $300 (mfg refurbished drives). I did lose a little capacity in the switch, but wasn't using it all anyway and when I need more will add another pair of whatever's cheapest per TB and migrate a pool.

@nerdvm @scottgal yeah, I have actually been leaning that way anyhow, get two big new/newish drives and create a new pool. My current pool is 4x4TB in a RAIDZ1, 12TB usable storage. If I get two +12TB and put in a mirror I can have two separate pools, one for less important stuff and the other for important. I could make the RAIDZ1 into a 4x4TB RAIDZ2 instead, less TB but more safety.