The video argues that after years of decline, internet piracy is resurging around the world. It describes how the rising costs of streaming-service subscriptions, fragmentation of content across many platforms, and restrictive licensing make legally accessing movies, series, or shows increasingly expensive and complicated.
Many users respond to those frustrations by returning to piracy, which often promises easier access, lower costs, and broader content availability.
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Hey, what's the advantage of a mix of SSD and HDD? Do you have some raid/cache setup? I'm.. I mean a friend of mine is still a beginner and using a single 1TB disk which is filling up fast. And they are trying to understand next steps.
I think it’s mostly price per TB so you get a couple for storage that doesn’t require faster access speeds
Well, yeah, but I think for long term storage I would just get all HDDs anyway. Don't they last longer? Or is that no longer the case?
My plan for my server is to run 6x 8TB HDDs in a ZFS raid with two parity drives, use one SSD as an L2ARC cache and one SSD for use as a storage container for server apps, say like PiHole, Bitwarden, Home Assistant and Jellyfin.
This will give me 32TB of storage with two disks redundancy and a 2TB cache.
I currently have about 6TB of media across two drives, about 2TB of which are my personal photos.
Thanks for the details! Would you ever consider getting 2nd hand hard drives if you're running a raid5? I saw some for sale, but not sure I can't trust them.
Since I can afford them, I have only considered new drives.
I would consider refurbished drives for a less critical application, say if I ran several several redundant several redundant servers.
I would not use general 2nd hand drives for anything other than experimental/homlab use, with refurbished drives you will at least have some knowledge of the general reliability of the drives, with simple used drives, that is not the case.
I have already had bitrot ruin a few of my personal photos, witch is why I want double protection on my storage, I am considering having my NAS run read verification of all files two times a year, if data get's corrupt, the NAS can use the double parity data to restore the lost data, running it twice a year should be enough to deal with my stuff, while not adversly affect the lifetime of the HDDs in any meaningfull way.