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What has been your best purchase this year?

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jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works
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A 14 TB HDD to throw on my Plex server. Went with a cheap option from serverpartdeals.com.

I was using a 4 TB for the longest time and had to go through and delete stuff every month.

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killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
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This is the situation I’m in but also using a QNAP which I’m going to decommission in favour of a proliant, but of course I can’t just swap the drives because of QNAPs damn proprietary FS

My purchase of the month (and year) is the proliant. I’ll never touch QNAP kit again.

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sylphio@lemmy.ml
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Nice deals! Thanks for sharing.

Does anyone knows of something like that based in Europe?

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Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world
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Those recertified drives are an amazing deal!

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bigdog_00@lemmy.world
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So glad you just mentioned this - I’ll have to take a look!

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jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works
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Just don’t put anything important on there without a backup. You never know how good the refurbish is on those.

I’m eventually gonna set up a proper RAID array with them to prevent data loss.

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didnt_readit@lemmy.world
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Remember RAID is not a backup! RAID is for increasing uptime and only happens to help protect data (in some cases) as a side effect. Make sure you have backups of anything important or irreplaceable on that drive, preferably offsite!

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flames5123@lemmy.world
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I got a 12TB HDD for the same reason this year. Finally sailing the seas again and got my parents on it with overseerr. Very easy for older gen X to use.

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