I think it's around 20 TB of data and yeah the processing isn't a big deal it's just the cloud storage fees aren't really worth it for data I maybe look at like once a year. I have a local NAS and searching through the data can take a long time even with pretty advanced indexing and it's basically entirely disk bottlenecked. I also want to frequently reprocess the data with new techniques and that again is disk bottlenecked.
It's just old family files and documents so it's not really worth me spending a ton of money on. But it was exciting watching hardware costs come down and seeing how much more I could do with it every few years but that is kind of dead right now.
I got a 1TB SSD go for like $100 in 6 years ago and that same spec SSD is now $200+ which kind of sucks. I can't really afford to give my NAS my hand-me-downs anymore lol
It's just old family files and documents so it's not really worth me spending a ton of money on. But it was exciting watching hardware costs come down and seeing how much more I could do with it every few years but that is kind of dead right now.
I got a 1TB SSD go for like $100 in 6 years ago and that same spec SSD is now $200+ which kind of sucks. I can't really afford to give my NAS my hand-me-downs anymore lol