Edit0: I’m disappointed that some people that take time to comment don’t seem to take time to read the whole post. Then, perhaps, they would realize that this post is not an SSD vs. HDD discussion, that using HDDs are out of question with my current living situation and that I just wanted to vent among peers.
Edit1: While I’m not judging - I myself recently moved to my current apartment for the very sake of being able to seed nonstop - I’m disappointed at how some of the commenters don’t take seeding for granted in a pirating community.
When I began building my server rig - which includes my torrenting setup - last year, I was able to find the 4TB 2.5 inch SATA SSD Samsung 870 EVO for about €300. I bought four of them, but now, I’m running out of space, so I checked a couple of retailers. Wowee. What is going on with these prices. 😂 Even Micron’s Crucial brand, which at some point was the more affordable option, is way past it’s curfew. 🤬
I just wanted to vent.
Since I’m one of those people who’d rather sleep in an anechoic chamber or at the very least use white noise or the likes in order to sleep, running HDDs doing random reads and writes next to my bed in my single room apartment is not a option.
How high is the power bill? I considered getting some more smaller drives but I figured it is more power efficient in the long term to buy bigger HDDs, not to mention that I only have 4 disk slots
Negligible. It runs 24/7, but I’ve got a lot of power running anyway with 4 “servers” and various animals (think reptile heat lights @100w-250w each), using about 1500kWh/month. I have 28x solar panels on the roof so my cost is quite low.
2 of my 4 servers are low power mini PCs, 1 is my old 36-bay SAS I seldom use for testing, my new build is a 24x bay SAS I use for my NAS, arrs stack, and media server.