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  • Smart idea starting out with a cheap printer as you’ll learn quite a bit more this way (tinkering and repairing) and find out if you really actually like the hobby or that it’s not for you without spending a fortune first. This can be extremely frustrating at times but also rewarding.

    I’ve been printing for several years and have never heard of a way to print with multiple profiles at once, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t possible as things are being discovered all the time and I don’t exactly stay up to date on every facet.

    I’d just start out one benchy at a time and learn from experience. Challenges will come, and that’s where you’ll learn.

    Also, keep your filament dry and get some cheap hygrometers to measure the filament’s moisture content (in a dry box, bag, etc) even brand new. This is one big cause of headaches.









  • I think it depends on what you’re storing. If it’s video then you’ll want bigger drives because you’ll fill your array of small drives up quickly and trying to manage 10 or 15 1TB HDDs will get out of hand quickly. Backing up isn’t super critical with large “Linux ISOs” since you can just torrent most everything again to replace missing files.

    For fast throughput of small files, I think smaller drives in an array win out and if these are important files, it probably wouldn’t be too expensive to buy a couple of large HDDs to backup the entire array.