I built Frankenstein’s NAS out of parts from 4 old DDR3 gaming PCs and a pile of drives from old workstations. Just need a good case with tons of bays/fans.
Sure, it not power efficient, and some of those drives will die over the next few years, but it will get better (cope).
(Just add larger HDD in pairs as referbs go on flash sales, for only 2x more than they were last year… And pray for the hardware crash or more cash)
Same lol. Started with an old Franky desktop and 2x500gb drives, continuously upgraded over the last decade with used parts.
summer 2024 I upgraded to 4x20TB drives, new fractal cube case with 8 3.5" drive bays, new CPU, etc. same profile from a decade ago. Runs great, it’s a fun project that keeps me from subscriptions aside from VPN, which I use for other stuff, and NZB subscriptions, a few bucks a month.
Plus I can get movies literally within hours of a digital release, sometimes sooner. It’s a little work, but I love it.
Graysites genuinely have better ui than streaming services, plus they have better content availability than all streaming combined
Self-hosted Jellyfin has the benefit of never being taken down unexpectedly and good/customizable UI
Yeah, but the administrator is a bit of a dick
I have a jellyfin server spec’d but the RAM and HDD prices are too painful to swallow for me atm
Hit some garage/estate sales.
I built Frankenstein’s NAS out of parts from 4 old DDR3 gaming PCs and a pile of drives from old workstations. Just need a good case with tons of bays/fans.
Sure, it not power efficient, and some of those drives will die over the next few years, but it will get better (cope).
(Just add larger HDD in pairs as referbs go on flash sales, for only 2x more than they were last year… And pray for the hardware crash or more cash)
Same lol. Started with an old Franky desktop and 2x500gb drives, continuously upgraded over the last decade with used parts.
summer 2024 I upgraded to 4x20TB drives, new fractal cube case with 8 3.5" drive bays, new CPU, etc. same profile from a decade ago. Runs great, it’s a fun project that keeps me from subscriptions aside from VPN, which I use for other stuff, and NZB subscriptions, a few bucks a month.
Plus I can get movies literally within hours of a digital release, sometimes sooner. It’s a little work, but I love it.