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

submitted 11 months ago by pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev to c/technology@beehaw.org

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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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[-] flak@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

[-] tokyorock@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

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

[-] flak@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago

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

[-] tokyorock@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] flak@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months 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.