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Re:Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just p... by winkeltripel on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @10:45AM (#31411476)
making 30TB out of 5T drives would need 12 disks with mirroring. That's a bunch of power. It might also be a dual-socket Xeon, for that ECC
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Re:Tell HN: I probably spend more on piracy than if I just p... by I_dev_outdoors on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @02:54PM (#31414924)
Who's going to mirror some low bitrate files they can download again off the internet.

If anything, assume something more reasonable like, 4x8 2x parity drives. 6 of those, that'd be $1200.

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