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Netflix kills Basic plan, making its cheapest ad-free tier $15.49 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've been putting off having a local copy of the series and movies I watch because I still can access them quickly and cheaply enough in some streaming service, I think it's time to plan ramping up my selfhosted setup.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SSDs are very cheap these days

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

HDDs are even cheaper and you really don't need an SSD for movies. You can get a 4tb HDD for less than 50 bucks and that will hold more than enough movies/shows for the majority of people.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You can get a 4tb HDD for less than 50 bucks

[citation needed]

Couldn't find them (or some that are close), at least not in the EU.

Edit: But I'd be happy to see US examples as well.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can get refurbed drives for under $50.

New ones that aren’t white label (which, nothing wrong with that) for 4 TB are about $100.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WD Red 4TB drives are only around $70 new, and they're built for constant use in NAS devices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those would be the SMR drives, if you don’t want that you’re looking at about $84.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see, I got a WD Red Plus for myself for around that price, and it looks like that's CMR. The base WD Red is SMR, though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep! The Plus/Pro line is the good shit. The base models of WD drives are not great now, especially if you're going to set up a RAID array of some sort.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The cheapest Sata HDD i can find in the US thats 4TB is $60. So maybe if they go on sale they could be less than $50. But OP was probably just exaggerating.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XK45S8B?tag=pcpapi-20&linkCode=ogi&th=1&psc=1

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I admit my mistake, I just quickly looked up the cheapest HDDs on google and saw some for 40 USD but it looks like they aren't for sale anymore or something. Still, a WD Red goes for 70 bucks, which is half the price of a SSD of that size while also being more than good enough for movies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

If you look at price per TB 4TB drives are a bad choice.