Subj : Arch btw
To   : Accession
From : DaiTengu
Date : Thu Nov 27 2025 10:39:35

  Re: Arch btw
  By: Accession to DaiTengu on Wed Nov 26 2025 10:07 am

 Ac> What is the cost for a lifetime account/setup to any of the providers
 Ac> you're using?

 I think the two main indexers I use are NZBGeek (I posted the black friday subscription prices in another message), and NZBPlanet.net 

NZBPlanet has a "lifetime" subscription plan that's œ40  I think I originally signed up for it about 5 years ago. There is a "free" plan to which gives you 5 NZB downloads a day, otherwise there's "VIP" for œ12 a year, or "Platinum" for œ16 a year. (I'm too lazy to do the conversion)

I don't think you need an invite to use it, but I can give you one if you're insterested. 

 Ac> Also, where have you been shopping for your NAS related stuff? I'm not
 Ac> looking to spend thousands on a homelab, or anything. While the NAS itself
 Ac> isn't so bad, most of them come diskless, and that's where you're going to
 Ac> end up spending a small fortune on disk space.

 That's a rabbit hole.  Right now RAM prices are through the roof so that's going to be like half your cost if you get a refurbished server.  I've been eying up www.theserverstore.com for a replacement NAS box, and they're quite flexible with customizations.  Especially since I can get parts (like RAM) from work. I just can't bring myself to spend $1500 for what I want right now, knowing I still have to source parts on top of it.

I did just buy a new 12TB SAS drive to replace a failing 4TB disk in my NAS last week from ServerPartDeals.com. I got a Seagate Exos X18 12TB drive for $170, and it shipped basically overnight.  For spinning disks, these drives are incredibly fast, and if I have the money I want to replace all my old 4TB and 6TB disks with them. (I might be able to slim down from 16 disks to about 8)

Anyway, hope you have a happy Turkey day!

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