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What are you spending a significant amount of money on hardware? A used PC is ~$50, assuming you don't already have one. Spinning rust is ~$10/TB:

https://www.amazon.com/HGST-Ultrastar-HUH728080ALE604-3-5-In...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/125797516426

It can be done for less than $100, done well for less than $300.

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Part of it is that I'm running a gaming VM on it and passing through a GPU to that. Plus I have another GPU for transcoding my media to HEVC. Lots of RAM for all the containers as well.

I also wrote my own container that I use for all my development so I like to keep it snappy for that.

I have about 20TB of platter storage (WD Reds) + parity, and 2TB of SSD cache (an additional 2TB SSD passed into the gaming vm)

It slowly adds up. I started with a Raspberry Pi and a USB hard drive as storage.

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