Yeah. Normal people have about 100tb of total space. My 96tb (64tb usable) of space is completely average and not at all an indicator of something being wrong or abnormal.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe for Americans storage falls from trees, could you share what is this normal supermarket where I can buy 100tb of total space?

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 7 hours ago

Oh. I was joking. I'm aware that my storage capabilities really are an outlier, even though I still feel inadequate whenever I go to a hoarding community.

I've spent around 1200$ USD since I started collecting things back on 2021, which is about 300/year, or 25/month. I don't expect to purchase anymore for another three years or so, right around when a 24tb drive drops to 150/each. It's still not like, super cheap or anything though.

[–] ChimpChamp22@reddthat.com 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Not saying its wrong, but most people probably don't even approach 10tb. 100tb+ is definitely not the norm. Normies balk at my 50tb, and I'm definitely on the low end of data hoarding.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 10 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

HDDs are getting massive. You could almost store all that on a single drive right now.

[–] DaGeek247@fedia.io 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing "almost" about it. Retail drives are available right now at 30tb. Although, the more reasonable price/GB is at around 8tb with occasional outliers.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

Yeah i knew they were coming but last I saw they'd only released them in the mid 20TB range and was too lazy to look it up.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 4 points 19 hours ago

coughs in 50TB

[–] remon@ani.social 3 points 20 hours ago

Huh?

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 1 points 26 minutes ago

That are only 3 hard drives.

I bought myself parts for TrueNas.

1000 where half of it was the storage.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 10 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

Buy more storage, but also... join private trackers when they open signups. You'd be amazing there.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

Public tracker: You are the hero, getting a 30:1 upload ratio in a mere 30 days. "Wow, this shit is easy!"

Private tracker: "Please... can this torrent even reach 10% upload? It's been an ENTIRE YEAR! I have 500 torrents in the same state!"

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Most private trackers have some sort of bonus point system now where you earn points per hour of seeding per torrent, regardless of how much data you actually upload. You can then use those points to buy upload credit and raise your ratio

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

They have to. It's a requirement, or everybody would quit in protest.

[–] alsaaas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

I never really understood private trackers TBH or rather the reason behind them. I like the idea of publicly sharing more anyway

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 6 hours ago

There are some niche private trackers which have an active community that handle quality and requests. Also they don't let just anyone create a torrent, so you can have assurances that the files have been vetted to some extent and you're not going to download something unexpected.

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 2 points 38 minutes ago

The advantage of private trackers is that:

torrents almost always have seeds
you can ask for re-seeds in case they aren't
torrents have a good quality
you're less likely to receive a complaint letter from copyright holders

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 2 points 18 hours ago

Already there

[–] hanrahan@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

Thank you for your service.