I pay about 200 € / month for all the shit I have but I have no clue what I'm paying for the single services

I know that I have about 30 TB in cold storage

But I also have some VMs and some databases

anyways

i want to start with 1 parity disk now

and upgrade to 2 at some point

when i upgrade beyond 4 disks

all my drives are from different batches/sellers so i'm not too worried about them all failing at the same time

i intend to use the HDDs as bulk storage for media library etc

nothing that I can be arsed to back up

not personal media

@porco was QNAP that taiwanese company that built NAS that aren't trash?

I don't know

From my experience of hear say, their servers aren't at least total trash..

tho I don't see why you wouldn't just DIY on something as simple as a NAS

convenience

it's for a small company where I'm not onsite

although I could just add an ssh tunnel

and run it all on ubuntu server or smth

Let me shill you some HPE ProLiant MicroServer

it's more generic than your typical NAS since it's a server, but it's smol and has many bays

also not so expensive

you can obtain them with already built in ram and no disks for about 350 eur

sadly, the newer HPE MicroServers don't have ILO included anymore, ILO was nice

https://h50003.www5.hpe.com/digmedialib/prodimg/lowres/i00029433.png

ILO is HP's web based hardware / system management tool

it runs on a firmware level so you can access it even if the system doesn't boot

but the newer "budget" HP servers like the MicroServer don't have it anymore

what's the budget anyway? (without disks)

https://www.ebay.com/itm/SuperMicro-AS-4023S-TRT-Tower-4U-Server-supports-Dual-AMD-EPYC-7000-series/362481339912?hash=item5465924e08:g:~18AAOSwLmBb429k:rk:6:pf:0

tfw no dual epyc server

i wonder what situation you would need dual epycs

over just GPU accelerated server

posting screenfetch on /g/

I think Lucene / Elastic etc might actually profit from that

because they need fast cores to operate, and many cores to scale

Also a lot of VMs

imagine you're a webhoster, one of these (Let's say about 5k total investment to put the missing hardware inside) will make you be able to sell 128 VPS with 1 Core / 1 GB Ram @ 10 $ / month

=> 30k / year income

question would be if multiple boxes larger cost of footprint but cheaper total price be worth it