Just wanted to jump in here - I ended up doing as the commenter below me has said and bought a 20TB external hard drive. Well worth doing imo. I’m going to keep all of my important media that I want to save on the 5TB as a backup.

Thank you, this is great advice

Yeah if I had full warranty I would be happy taking a punt but not sure I should take the risk… probably better to wait for a sale

Thanks for responding, appreciate it. I don’t really need a “NAS” so to speak because of my mini pc which stays on 24/7 - I just need a place to store stuff. I was thinking a RAID or similar hard drive enclosure might be best because I can find some cheap drives and shove them in. I never considered a single drive with a massive capacity.

Do you think something like this 18TB drive is a good shout? I’m not sure if it’s shuck-able…

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I’d probably bet that the people that have filtered through to Lemmy probably already have their own data storage already sorted - you’ve got less “casuals” as it were. I use Google Drive myself, trying to figure out an alternative.

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I’m actually quite pleased to see lemmy.ml focus on what they want to focus on rather than being a general purpose instance like mastodon.social. I read their mission statement and they were pretty adamant that they want to see a variety of different instances - and we should! Reminds me of the golden forum days.