2024-08-22, 03:56 PM
(This post was last modified: 2024-08-22, 04:00 PM by Host-in-the-Shell. Edited 2 times in total.)
So I live in the third world and salaries over here, even for college educated individuals are not very high. I make in the ballpark of 1500 US dollars a month holding a master's degree. What's worse is that we have an import tax for any technology that we bring over that exceeds 200 dollars, which is 18% of the total cost of the item on top, plus additional expenditures for fuel and others usually adds 100 dollars more to the 18% tax, but it varies.
The idea is to motivate us to buy locally and stimulate the country's own economy, but unfortunately these kind of workstations and homelabs are rarely available and if they are, they cost comparatively to a car's down payment or worse. Either way is essentially out of reach for me.
That said, I don't particularly need that much juice anyway; been self hosting for the better part of 20 years and the only services I've accumulated on all that time are my media server, website, dns server, nextcloud, rss sync service and a metasearch engine. I'm hosting all of that on a mini pc which handles it all without any issue, with the exception of my media server, which uses an old gaming pc with an arc GPU.
My usage of external disks comes from the fact that you really can't find any for sale in my country; when I go to the store, I only find 1-2 tb internal disks, and maybe if I'm lucky, a 4tb external one. And usually the last one is overpriced at nearly 200 dollars. External disks on amazon are usually under 200 and pay no taxes as opposed to internal ones, which do even under 200, as a rule exception unfortunately.
Anyway, recently I've been delving into selling pc parts and getting certain tax exemptions through commercial licenses and this allowed me to batch order internal drives of which I can retain some for personal use. So 4x for my DAS amount to 56tb, which is more than enough for me. I'm already struggling to fill out 38tb, so I think 56 will be sufficient for my use case even if I indulge myself into adding all kinds of super sentai and tokusatsu shows to my collection, which would probably grow it a couple TBs.
The idea is to motivate us to buy locally and stimulate the country's own economy, but unfortunately these kind of workstations and homelabs are rarely available and if they are, they cost comparatively to a car's down payment or worse. Either way is essentially out of reach for me.
That said, I don't particularly need that much juice anyway; been self hosting for the better part of 20 years and the only services I've accumulated on all that time are my media server, website, dns server, nextcloud, rss sync service and a metasearch engine. I'm hosting all of that on a mini pc which handles it all without any issue, with the exception of my media server, which uses an old gaming pc with an arc GPU.
My usage of external disks comes from the fact that you really can't find any for sale in my country; when I go to the store, I only find 1-2 tb internal disks, and maybe if I'm lucky, a 4tb external one. And usually the last one is overpriced at nearly 200 dollars. External disks on amazon are usually under 200 and pay no taxes as opposed to internal ones, which do even under 200, as a rule exception unfortunately.
Anyway, recently I've been delving into selling pc parts and getting certain tax exemptions through commercial licenses and this allowed me to batch order internal drives of which I can retain some for personal use. So 4x for my DAS amount to 56tb, which is more than enough for me. I'm already struggling to fill out 38tb, so I think 56 will be sufficient for my use case even if I indulge myself into adding all kinds of super sentai and tokusatsu shows to my collection, which would probably grow it a couple TBs.
Server specs => OS: Debian 12 | GPU: Arc A380 | CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X | 64GB RAM | 56TB