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Personal data hoarding:

My personal data archive consists of 172TB. Below, the MyBooks are primary storage and 1st mirror (104TB). The tall black unit is an air-gapped onsite mirror (32TB). The small black unit is the air-gapped offsite mirror (36TB). There is no RAID in use. DriveBender is still running the main NAS and air-gapped copy. Stablebit DrivePool is doing the off-site mirror and torrent seed server. All drives are standard NTFS. If one drive dies, it's an easy recovery. I've had two 8TB drives suffer instant death in the past year, and was back up in < 12 hours. I estimate a good 99% uptime with zero data loss in over a decade. Every one of my servers is DDR3 based, still cheap in 2026 (but climbing).

The remote access is handled by Home Assistant and Netbird VPN.

The components of my bodged together homelab data center - function over form here (and my cheapness led to every decision)

My personal data center draws approximately 1300w continuous

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