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What is your "inexpensive" hobby that turned out to be expensive/ you gradually invested lots of money into? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by plactagonic@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Edit: so it turns out that every hobby can be expensive if you do it long enough.

Also I love how you talk about your hobby as some addicts.

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[–] zahel@lemm.ee 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

selfhosting/homelab. Originally started just using retired gaming PC parts to build a server. All it cost was the power to run the system. Years later and with more things/content I have, I just added a 5x 18tb hard drives and 3x 8tb. Just the 5 18tb drives was like $1500.

[–] randombullet@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah me as well.

Had a cheap server that had 2 x 2tb for stuff I wanted to access while away

Then turned into 3 x 8tb for redundancy and ZFS

Then turned into 2 x 3 x 20tb for dual redundancy and ZFS1

Now I want to upgrade to ECC memory and the cpu, Mobo, and ram will likely cost over $1k.

Plus with more hardware it will use more power. I'm at 125w normal usage. That costs me $284 a year to run my stack.

[–] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What can you possibly need more than 100TB of storage for?! Presumably some redundancy but still way more than I can imagine a personal need for.

[–] zahel@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I have 65 TB of movies and shows for a Plex server. That is what the 5x 18tb drives are for. I download primarily REMUXes or highest quality available.

The other drives are for backing up photos, my server, and anything important.