brickfrog, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago)

Most people just use a NAS (self built or one of the pre-built types) & stuff a bunch of hard drives into it. Or just stuff a bunch of hard drives into their desktop(s).

Sure there are people outfitting rack(s) of server(s) but generally that’s just the truly dedicated people going that route.

For what it’s worth hard drives nowadays go up to ~22TB so your 34TB example would only need two massive hard drives. A compact NAS or small desktop would work fine for that example.