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My intention is NOT to create a clickbait title, but I have found a re-invigoration within me with regards to data - or in layman’s terms, data hoarding. I have always had around 8-10TB of data between videos, family pics and videos, and some games (not my entire GOG or Steam library yet, but maybe one day). All of this takes up precious space on my HDDs.

I recently upgraded from a 4-disk 8TB RAID-Z2 array which gave me 12TB of usable space to a 4-disk 12TB RAID-Z2 array with 18TB+ usable. The upgrade isn’t as huge as one would expect moving from 4x8TB to 4x12TB drives, but I still believe very much in redundancy.

Editor’s Note: When I first published this article, the https://audible-converter.ml/ shortcut method still worked. As of August 2023, that site is down. The method below using RainbowCrack still works perfectly.

Why You Should Care

As Amazon continues to expand their collection of books, music, and audiobooks, licensing disputes with publishers and authors will continue to cause problems. What this means for us as users is that we could lose access to media we purchased on Amazon’s platform. This has happened before and will happen again when you least expect it.

Editor’s Note: When I first published this article, the https://audible-converter.ml/ shortcut method still worked. As of August 2023, that site is down. The method below using RainbowCrack still works perfectly.

Why You Should Care

As Amazon continues to expand their collection of books, music, and audiobooks, licensing disputes with publishers and authors will continue to cause problems. What this means for us as users is that we could lose access to media we purchased on Amazon’s platform. This has happened before and will happen again when you least expect it.