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Smart Storage Solutions for Family Photos and Recipes Without the Overkill
For storing family photos (even tens of thousands of JPEGs) plus a Mealie recipe database, half a petabyte of NVMe is wildly overkill—and at $79 K, astronomically expensive. Here’s why:
How much space do you really need?
• A typical photo runs 3–7 MB. Even if you snap 50,000 images, that’s under 350 GB.
• Mealie’s entire database (recipes, thumbnails, metadata) rarely exceeds a few hundred megabytes.
A right‐sized solution
• A simple 2–4 TB NAS (two 2 TB or 4 TB drives in RAID 1) gives you 1–2 TB of usable, fault-tolerant space—plenty for photos, videos and recipe data.
• Drives cost under $100 each. A small ARM- or Intel-based NAS box runs $200–$400.
Don’t forget backups
• Keep one copy locally and one off-site (cloud sync, an external drive in a safe deposit box, etc.).
• Versioning or snapshots protect against accidental deletion or corruption.
In short: go with a modest NAS (2–4 TB mirrored) plus an off-site backup. Your family memories and Mealie recipes will be safe—without breaking the bank.
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By jawbreaker.ioFor storing family photos (even tens of thousands of JPEGs) plus a Mealie recipe database, half a petabyte of NVMe is wildly overkill—and at $79 K, astronomically expensive. Here’s why:
How much space do you really need?
• A typical photo runs 3–7 MB. Even if you snap 50,000 images, that’s under 350 GB.
• Mealie’s entire database (recipes, thumbnails, metadata) rarely exceeds a few hundred megabytes.
A right‐sized solution
• A simple 2–4 TB NAS (two 2 TB or 4 TB drives in RAID 1) gives you 1–2 TB of usable, fault-tolerant space—plenty for photos, videos and recipe data.
• Drives cost under $100 each. A small ARM- or Intel-based NAS box runs $200–$400.
Don’t forget backups
• Keep one copy locally and one off-site (cloud sync, an external drive in a safe deposit box, etc.).
• Versioning or snapshots protect against accidental deletion or corruption.
In short: go with a modest NAS (2–4 TB mirrored) plus an off-site backup. Your family memories and Mealie recipes will be safe—without breaking the bank.
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