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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/0ldstrawberry555 on 2025-07-04 21:02:20.

Hello. Drive died, lost a ton of things... Learned my lesson.

Now I want to buy another drive, this time I'm buy two, so if one dies, I have the other.

What are your budget recommendations for a cheap, long-term storage solution?

I'm lost since all these options are presented to me:

• Refurbished external drive
• NVMe with enclosure
• Budget RAID solution too maybe?

Currently, from what I've found: Is $38 good for a PNY SDD with 500GB?

Full details: (PNY CS1030 500GB M.2 NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 SSD - M280CS1030-500-RB)

Thanks

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/bduggs97 on 2025-07-04 20:19:47.

Hi everyone, I am a relative newbie to the Networking and storage side of IT. I am trying to upgrade my setup so I can make my Plex server bigger to handle the current media I have plus my friends collection (12 TBs in total. My plan is to buy some 14TB drives and setup a RAID5 setup using Drivepool/Snapraid and I am fairly solid on all of that. However I cannot for the life of me figure out a DAS enclosure that is under $200 and not trash. I was scouring the stores and I found Amazon had the best prices on things however I am still struggling so I have two questions.

1. Do you know of any <$200 External drive enclosures that will last me a bit?
2. If I can't find a DAS solution I have found a NAS case I would be happy with (Jonsbo 8 Bay) however I am unsure if I can use the USB 3.2/3.0 connections it has to function like a DAS because I do not have the time to build a NAS at the moment. Can you use NAS cases for a DAS situation?

Thanks!

The original post: /r/earthporn by /u/hinterstoisser on 2025-07-05 03:47:27.

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The original post: /r/torrents by /u/sanfranchristo on 2025-07-04 22:47:45.

I'm looking to move my old digital library onto a new media server and want to upgrade the quality of some of my old MP3s and grab some new music that's come out during my subscription streaming years. I haven't downloaded music in many years (really decades) so I'm looking for recommendations for public sites with quality breadth of content (not after current pop stuff in general) and relatively safe and high-quality files before I go spearfishing. I've looked over the megathead and am familiar with torrenting and public trackers in general but only for movies/TV in recent history. Any good places to start (or avoid)? Thanks!

The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/StorKuk69 on 2025-07-04 22:28:19.

I want to have all games / discord go through my normal net but only firefox go through the VPN. Is this possible?