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STR posted:My storage unit is going from... $49/month to $149/month. I'd be looking real close at what you're storing. Even at $49/month it adds up fast and after a while it's likely cheaper to buy replacements than to store whatever it is you're storing, especially if whatever it is still has some value and can be sold off on Craigslist or whatever rather than stored.
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It's a lot of sentimental stuff that just won't fit in our current apartment (1 bedroom with not much storage, though a huge bedroom for a 1 bedroom apartment), along with some furniture that's waiting for us to move into a larger apartment once our lease is up. And some tools that I just never got moved to the new place. The furniture is from family, and it's old, solid stuff that I'd like to hang on to. It's not worth much, money wise, unless you find the right person, and some of it was hand built from scratch by my great grandfather. The $49/mo was very doable. But since I'm out of work for the next month (between intensive outpatient rehab and multiple AA meetings a day - still collecting 2/3 pay), and my insurance company ain't doing gently caress all about Brokeback yet, I at least have a way and some time to get everything out. To give you an idea of how little storage space we have at the apartment:  Except the W/D closet (stackable with a coat closet next to it in that picture) is a full size laundry room that holds a full size w/d... with about 1/3 of the room blocked off by the washer and dryer (they sit in the door opening) with that 1/3 of the room off to the side.  (partly taken up by the water heater anyway) To actually get to that section of the laundry room or to the water heater, you have to yank the washer out. I climb on top of the washer to get to the shelving back there (apparently there's only 2 apartments in the complex with the full size w/d hookups in this floorplan - mine and my next door neighbor's).Some of the stuff will have to wind up in the garage, even though I absolutely HATE storing anything in the garage that isn't car or bike related. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 18:50 on May 30, 2021 |
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the spyder posted:Hurm, today is not my day for cars. I’m a little terrified to sell out spare KIA, because it’s, you know, the spare running car!
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Bajaha posted:I'd be looking real close at what you're storing. Even at $49/month it adds up fast and after a while it's likely cheaper to buy replacements than to store whatever it is you're storing, especially if whatever it is still has some value and can be sold off on Craigslist or whatever rather than stored. I rented a storage unit, moved all my stuff there, took a long hard look, and came to the realisation that a third could be thrown away (or would become redundant, like shelving), a third could be sold and the rest was essentially worthless and could very much be reacquired (if ever needed) for only a couple of months' rent. Storage in urban areas is stupid expensive and much of the crap we hold on to isn't really needed.
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STR posted:My storage unit is going from... $49/month to $149/month. Oh god no please. I'm renting a drat 10'x30' unit to help my pops clean out the garage.
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May 30, 2021 19:51
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We had a unit for 3 months during the move last year and couldn't have moved without it. So they do serve a purpose but long term you're throwing money away.
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I split a 10x20 with my roommates at my last rental, but that's because the three of us had 5 cars and 3 motorcycles, plus all sorts of tools and car parts. With a 22x22 garage, we needed the extra space just to store the bikes in the winter. But our rent was ridiculously cheap for a 3br/2ba townhome with garage, so the extra storage within walking distance was worth it. Now all my stuff from the storage unit fits in my garage. We did rent 10x30 worth or climate controlled storage when we sold and bought, but only because we had 4 months of time between the sale and the closing on the new place. That was ridiculously expensive (about $300/mo) but worth it for the short term.
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May 30, 2021 22:29
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 See you in 351 more miles.
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Nice.
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StormDrain posted:
excellent work 
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 All of my shits in a 15x25'. stacked bottom to top, front to back. Was 160/mo till this month, now 200.. Got nowhere to put it in my tiny rear end 160sq-ft house on wheels. I hope to buy a house with a garage within a year. Goodfucking luck with that though.
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Nice.
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Coredump posted:Oh god no please. I'm renting a drat 10'x30' unit to help my pops clean out the garage. Mine's 10x10, climate controlled, though like much of Austin, they lost power for 4 days during the winter freeze (luckily I didn't have anything in there that could be damaged by cold, and none of the fire sprinklers or pipes popped). Started out at $31/month last year, which is just insanely cheap. Going to look into how much a storage unit at my apartment costs. It wouldn't be climate controlled, and they only put a knob lock on it (so easy to break into, just like my garage), but adding a wireless sensor for my alarm would be a whopping  if I got one within range (433 MHz I think, so it'll get some distance, and I can set it to just do a 24/7 alert w/out siren easily enough). It'd be in one of the garage foyers - hopefully I can get one in the one that's attached to my garage.
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StormDrain posted:
I'm hoping that your oil pressure is 42.0 psi, volts is 14.20 and your current fuel level is 6.9 gallons
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STR posted:Mine's 10x10, climate controlled, though like much of Austin, they lost power for 4 days during the winter freeze (luckily I didn't have anything in there that could be damaged by cold, and none of the fire sprinklers or pipes popped). Started out at $31/month last year, which is just insanely cheap. You need a barndominium out there in Austin. I think that would be the optimum AI goon dwelling. Basically get a prefab steel building and then build a house within it. So your house is protected by an exterior steel shell and you get good amount of storage space/sq ft for the dollar. I really wish the metal recycling biz near me would open back up so I can start trying to take some random poo poo from here to get recycled and clean up some clutter. In other news I have a non car person friend who has continued to make excellent car purchasing decisions. First car was a champagne colored Toyota Corolla he kept for forever. Second car was a early 2000's 4 cylinder Camry he kept to 250,000 miles and this weekend he traded up to a 2020 Honda Fit with 6,000 miles on it. Coredump fucked around with this message at 00:58 on May 31, 2021 |
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May 31, 2021 00:55
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You guys should price out cloud storage over 1TB sometime if you think physical storage units are high.
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Goober Peas posted:You guys should price out cloud storage over 1TB sometime if you think physical storage units are high. Ask me about running several PB of it. It’s spendy.
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Krakkles posted:A shop quoted me $650 to change the fuel filler neck on a 2000 Mustang ... lol. I mean, I didn't want to do it myself, but I don't $650 not want to do it myself. The part is $70 on rockauto, a transmission jack to make lifting lowering the tank easier is $1-200 at harbor freight, and having been in there recently/before, I can't see it taking me more than 2 hours.
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Goober Peas posted:You guys should price out cloud storage over 1TB sometime if you think physical storage units are high. Office 365 gives you 1TB via OneDrive  **smugness not called for just a chance to use my day job knowledge.
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Oh you used up your whole 100GB of storage in your Salesforce Unlimited instance? Well we can help you with multiple solutions to offload that storage for 6 figure annual licenses or give you more storage for a 6 figure annual fee!
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the spyder posted:Ask me about running several PB of it. It’s spendy. We move several PB a month  I don't recall off-hand how much cloud storage we have (a lot, but not like, video hosting a lot) but the most expensive S3 bucket wasn't the one with the most storage, it was the one that we made a fuckton of requests to and S3 charges per request.
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Coredump posted:You need a barndominium out there in Austin. I think that would be the optimum AI goon dwelling. Basically get a prefab steel building and then build a house within it. So your house is protected by an exterior steel shell and you get good amount of storage space/sq ft for the dollar. I really wish the metal recycling biz near me would open back up so I can start trying to take some random poo poo from here to get recycled and clean up some clutter. Oh sure, let's just get some land in Austin to build one on.
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luminalflux posted:We move several PB a month My most expensive storage right now is cloud based database/BI - everything else is pennies compared to that. On prem still is the sweet spot for latency with my apps. I think I have ~10PB on prem and god knows how much in AZ. I don't pay that bill.
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We’re a little two-bit outfit running around 200TB on-prem and I also had a minor stroke when seeing what that would cost in the  .
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bolind posted:Then he must be dead. RIP Cat Terrist, the crazy cat lady of Subarus. Whose this Cat Terrist you speak of? Goober Peas posted:You guys should price out cloud storage over 1TB sometime if you think physical storage units are high. Even NetApp on prem is cheaper and that poo poo isnt cheap at all. That said we're shovelling in some 60 bay Supermicro SANs and I dont even want to think about how much all that disk would cost in the cloud. We're def doing petabytes a month...? Just finished doing a disk swapout on a SAN from 2TB drives to 16TB. Took a month or two because -> remove disk --> Put in newdisk --> let ZFS resilver --> Waaaaaaaaaaait a day or two -> next disk for a 96 bay system and then realise that is one system with over a petabye and the rack is full of those and exactly how many racks is in the DC again??
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CAT INTERCEPTOR posted:Whose this Cat Terrist you speak of? Jealous of that. My personal is 12 bays, a mix of 2TB to 6TB each drive slowing migrating them all up. Looking to snag another Storageworks when I can and populate with the older drives for mucking around. Everything spare/superceded ends up as offline backups. (anyone with some surplus D2600s let me know) Humphreys fucked around with this message at 10:09 on May 31, 2021 |
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Coredump posted:You need a barndominium out there in Austin. I think that would be the optimum AI goon dwelling. Basically get a prefab steel building and then build a house within it. So your house is protected by an exterior steel shell and you get good amount of storage space/sq ft for the dollar. I really wish the metal recycling biz near me would open back up so I can start trying to take some random poo poo from here to get recycled and clean up some clutter. As awesome as that looks, land here has gotten stupid expensive. A single wide mobile home in rough exterior shape/pretty decent interior just sold for $200k up the road from me, though it had a (large) carport, a shed, and was on a 1/2 acre. Would have been perfect for one of those, though! I'm sure whoever bought it is knocking it all down. It was in the oldest part/least desirable part of the suburb I'm in (predates the incorporation of the city), and was only on the market for a few days. There's 1/4 acre and less lots for sale in better neighborhoods for $200-300k, cheapest home in my town on Zillow right now is $300k and went on the market 3 days ago. I wouldn't be surprised if it's already sold for way over asking (~1500 sq ft 3/2) Mustache Ride posted:Oh sure, let's just get some land in Austin to build one on. And one of those is in a HOA, the other already subdivided into 8 lots, so probably also in a HOA.  I'm just outside of Austin proper (CP), we're lagging SLIGHTLY behind Austin a little in pricing, but not by much. Leander is getting ridiculous too, but I don't think they're land locked like Austin and CP (... might be wrong on that).
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new thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3969374
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