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Walmart currently has a decent 6TB drive on sale for $160: https://www.walmart.com/ip/48735757

Put 3 or 4 of these in a Synology enclosure or attach directly in a uATX case. I use btrfs "raid1" which protects against any one drive failing and has filesystem-level checksums and compression, but people also say good things about ZFS in a similar mode. Just use either one of those with scrubbing.

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Walmart currently has a decent 6TB drive on sale for $160

This would have sounded like science fiction to 12 year old me. Still kinda sounds ridiculous.

An eon ago, when I was 14, I found out about Moore's Law and computers. I remember writing a Basic program on an Apple II to calculate the results for different years in the future. I boggled at the numbers that came out for these decades, and I am still amazed that it's all kept pace, more or less.

I should see if I still have the program somewhere in storage.

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