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[–] SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Do we dare ask why you need 48TB to store media, or do we slowly back out of the room, avoiding eye contact?

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Redundancy and high quality backups maybe? Some people have hoarded a lot of media over how many years, doesn't seem too far fetched to me.

[–] SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You had me at horded.

You. Had. Me. At. Horded.

[–] onlyhalfminotaur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

If it was my setup those three drives would just give you 16TB of space. Two drives in a mirror and the third as a hot spare.

I get 4k/8k quality everything if I can. Plus my fam can queue up downloads. I had 32TB but we’ve filled it up in 18 months. I now have a backup of the stuff I really like and a bit of room to grow. They keep downloading long running series one of them got project model or something, some food shows and a tattoo show.