My benefit of blogging/book-keeping
I wrote about saving money by procrastinating. Now I realised, that I keep off expenses by counting my monthly and yearly expenses. Maybe it is because of the yearly goals. Maybe this is also a benefit of blogging.
I my concrete example I would like to replace my old NAS (computer stuff, if you don’t know what it is) with a newer, but smaller version. Two hard disk slots are enough and it would cost around 156 Euros for the new NAS and 2x 260 Euros for the hard disks (6 TB). So maybe 680 Euros with shipping. My current capacity is 4 TB, so this is 50% more. And also power consumption would be much less (which saves some Euros each year).
But I constantly push the purchase away, because it would lead to a very expensive month (and I would like to stay below 2014’s expenses). Maybe I just buy a 8 TB Seagate Archive hard disk for 240 Euros instead.
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Financial Independence 1:16 on 2015-05-27 Permalink |
Hi eurfi,
I concur that booking keeping you alert and acutely aware about the expenses. However, sometimes it makes life a little bit sad as you always counting how much you have spent so far and what is remaining.
The trouble with Archive that if you are using NAS RAID with mirror copying, you are reducing reliability of the entire system.
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eurfi 21:57 on 2015-05-27 Permalink |
I like numbers, so counting my money (or expenses) does not make me sad. I admit, I sometimes just look at my numbers and I get a positive feeling from it 🙂
Thanks for the suggestion about the RAID mirror. I’m aware of this. I just ordered the Seagate Archive yesterday evening for 240 Euros and will use it as single drive. I will only store stuff on it, that I also have somewhere else (e. g. as backup). The really important files will stay on my old NAS (RAID 5).
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