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Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump (www.404media.co)
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Title is a little sensational but this is a cool project for non-technical folks who may need a mini-internet or data archive for a wide variety of reasons:

"PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of Wikipedia, street maps, survivalist information, 90,000 WikiHow guides, iFixit repair guides, government website backups (including FEMA guides and National Institutes of Health backups), TED Talks about farming and survivalism, 60,000 ebooks and various other content. It’s part external hard drive, part local hotspot antenna—the box runs on a Raspberry Pi that allows up to 20 devices to connect to it over wifi or wired connections, and can store and run additional content that users store on it. It doesn't store a lot of content (either 256GB or 512GB), but what makes it different from buying any external hard drive is that it comes preloaded with content for the apocalypse."

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[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (3 children)

Not sure if this is allowed, but I had to see if this was true, and also if it was expensive- it isn’t!

(I do not work for, or with anything involved in this)

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That's a shockingly bad price, considering the storage. You could put this together yourself for less than half that price. Maybe even a quarter of the price, if you grab used stuff from ebay.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

That may be true; but not everyone knows how to.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

The people this sort of device is targeted to either already know how to do something like this, or they're the sort of people who would be eager to follow one of the many guides online. The prepper community is also a DIY community, by nature.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

I feel like the $190 they want for the Pi 4/microSD version would've been a reasonable price for the Pi 5/NVME version.

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 4 points 18 hours ago

I just purchased 18 TB of surplus disks for 200 CAD, the price there doesn't seem that good to me.