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Originally Posted by DukeSkywalker
Depending on your electrical grid reliability and budget, buy an old dell r610, load it with windows server, and an lsi raid card, several “rackable systems” sas enclosures, put in 80 or so wd nas red 4tb drives (possibly larger) and run it in a raid 60. It’s about 300 tb of redundancy. Get a good battery backup too.
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yea keep it local. upfront cost but no monthly costs. if you choose one of these "cloud" solutions, you are married to them, paying monthly fees, and your data is at risk to any random issue.
you content and data only needs to be web accessible if you are serving it thru a website or node.
you can get 16TB drives on Amazon (prime not aws lol) for around $300.
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