I guess it should be, but I’ve never tried storing files in the DB.

It’s rather easy upload files to the file system with the Storage Facades, but that doens’t have an build in way to associate the files with models. That’s where the spatie media library comes in.

Are you set on storing your image in the database?

If not I’d recommend the spatie media library:

https://spatie.be/docs/laravel-medialibrary/v11/introduction

I’d choose which ever one is not PostgreSQL.

from 2 different accounts

So … block the all of the entire two accounts and be done with it?

Yeah and a new 12 bay NAS to put them all in. I had a 2 bay that I expanded with a bunch of USB drives before, but that was starting to get really messy. Basically took my entire thirteenth salary.

My first batch (6x 20TB) is at 8611 hours.

The 2nd batch (3x 20TB) is at 5612 hours