Google Premium storage, is $100/yr (paid annually) for 2TB of storage.
Even at the high end estimate the homelab is giving you several times the storage for the same cost.
Google Premium storage, is $100/yr (paid annually) for 2TB of storage.
Even at the high end estimate the homelab is giving you several times the storage for the same cost.
do you need more space than 2TB ? (excluding things you've downloaded from the internet)
Very few people i know has use for that much storage. Yes, you can download the entire netflix catalog, and that will of course require more storage, and no, you probably shouldn't put it in the cloud (or even back it up, or use redundant storage for it).
Setting up your own homelab to be your own netflix, but using pirated content, is not really a use case i would consider. I'm aware people are doing it, and i still think it's stupid. They're saving money by "stealing" (or at least breaking laws), which is hardly a lifehack.
I know many people that would fill that space with home videos from phones and digital cameras. Millennials with kids especially.
You can fit A LOT of photos and videos in 2TB.
My wife is a professional photographer, and while we do archive most of her RAW files somewhere else, pretty much everything HEIC, JPEG or any other compressed format lives in our main cloud.
We have 2.2TB in total for “direct storage”, and we’re currently using around 1.5TB, and that’s including myself and our kids.
My personal photo library has just short of 90,000 photos, and about 5,000 videos. My wife’s library is roughly twice that. I have no idea how many photos the kids have, but they each take up around 200GB for photos.
And then we have backups, which actually take up about 1TB per person, mostly because that’s the space I’ve allocated for each, so history just grows until it’s filled. Photos ideally won’t change much. We backup originals along with XMP metadata for edits, so the photos stays the same, and changes are described in easily compressed text files. Backups of course also have deduplication enabled.
My mother, now in her 70s, has about 4tb worth of photos and videos, and we haven't even started digitizing stuff.
My friend, in her mid 20s, uses nearly 3tb of apple cloud space with photos and videos, mostly of her kids and dog.
I dont even film much but im using about a terabyte.
You are moving the goalposts and supporting your generic point only under very narrow assumed conditions.
There’s always a “right tool for the job”. Sometimes it’s the cloud. Sometimes it isn’t. The article is for people who found the cloud isn’t a good fit and need something at home.
A lot of people have large collections of music or movies. Or want to keep full control over some data no matter the cost. Or need it to work without internet. There are many solid reasons to avoid the cloud and use your own solution.
You are arguing that your original assertion isn’t wrong, people’s stated needs must be wrong. Because you have different needs so others must be doing it wrong. And this undermines everything else you say.
Five comments up you're talking about 4x4TB NAS setups. Which is it?
> do you need more space than 2TB ?
Yes.
> (excluding things you've downloaded from the internet)
Why on earth would I do that? My storage includes things I downloaded from the internet that are not there anymore/hard to find/now paywalled. If you were thinking the only thing to download from the internet is pirated media - I haven't included that in my >2TB assessment.