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[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 4 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

I have a 5 TB NAS (technically 4x2 TB of SSDs in RAID5, plus float space for backups of my servers), but it's shared for music, video, books and audiobooks, and retro game ROMs, plus other necessities (personal documents and such). Those disks were $600 at the time total. Now would cost $2k ($500 each), it's insane.

I mostly enjoy older stuff, and don't bother with 4k. I let the TV upscale it, don't really care. Looks like I've got about 1.5 TB worth of video (movies, TV, and anime) at the moment, plus another 1.4 TB of music.

If I need to, I can add some additional storage via dual NVMe slots on the NAS, but I don't think it's currently worth it at today's prices. I still have a bit over 1 TB free, will keep it that way likely.