wondering if it would make sense to buy some bluray-r discs in order to offload some storage off my server while i figure out exactly how i want to set it up and what i actually want on it vs. just in storage

its honestly probably MORE expensive than just getting a hard drive-- verbatim has a 25 pack of 25GB discs for $33, or a ten-pack of 100GB from Sony for $55-- but the upfront cost is less, so it might make more sense?

i guess it depends on how likely it is for hard drives to go down in price in the near future...

okay i think i talked myself out of it. spending a quarter of the price on 1/12 the storage just doesn't make sense, even if it did mean i could start working on it now instead of waiting and hoping things don't fail in the meantime -_-
@emaytch It’s been a while since I priced it but maybe Amazon AWS Glacier or Backblaze B2?
@jfew im not particularly interested in cloud storage atm, and definitely not amazon
@emaytch I’d really love to get my hands on an affordable tape drive.