I think it's ok for backups

Let's say you need it once every 3-4 years

archive storage is fine. what's the difference between hot/cold?

Hot = expensive to store, cheap to access
Cold = cheap to store, expensive to acceas

Hot is for your little files that you need every day, cold is for backups

and archive is cool on steroids?

Yes

Iirc the cheapest plan of azure for archiving has one day of latency to access a file

it would be 10 € a month for 5TB archive

Like, you have to request a day in advance

that's fine it's mostly my blu ray rips

I doubt it's going to cost that much but I can't check rn

I'm not paying that much

first 50tb azure archive is €0.0019 per GB a month

Switch location away from Germany

Select some US location

They might be cheaper

Northern Europe is cheap too

That's Ireland

Right

For some reason that's called North lol

I should check my Azure bill

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