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I just hoarded this gif
I agree. I recommend most people don't go overboard, but they can still do their part.
Save the things you like and are relevant to you. Movies, shows, games, music, books, etc. You don't have to be an archivist. Storing data should be something that reflects you, personally, and it should genuinely be more enjoyable as a result.
It should feel good to preserve and be responsible for another copy of the information you like.
3tb of porn and growing.
momma always said, "do what you like you thick sumbitch, yer gon do it anyway."
she was right. I did it anyway.
Lots of people hoard data. The problem is keeping it in a working state. Think about how many people have old towers or laptops in their garage or basement never to look at those downloads or vacation photos again.
48TB rust in raidz2 reporting in
32TB right now.
Got +80TB coming in the mail!
And offside backup coming soon ™️
Heh... I'm actually rewatching Dragon Ball right now.
Awesome! I like the original series best by a decent margin. Soooo good.
Holy shit, you’ve nearly 20x’d me 🫡
Check again...
That's "free space". The 414 represents ~62% of my space (38% used). I'm at just under 700 for usable space. And 2 disks are out of the array at the moment because the backplane went stupid. Turns out that it's a pain in the ass to open server chassis to replace a backplane when you have to unmount 70 disks. And I'm pretty lazy.
6 x RAIDZ2 | 10 wide | 14.55 TiB
873TiB raw.
960TB raw.
This graph might be better...
lol yeah - I revised my comment from 10x to 20x after looking closer. You literally 20x’d me lol.
That is some thicc storage. Respect.
Let's just say that I do my part seeding Linux ISOs.
~72 TB uploaded the past 30 days.
I am unfortunately the epitome of a data hoarder. I still have files that I generated/created 30 years ago...
Damn, what sort of connection are you running? I feel like you’d be getting throttled, assuming throttling isn’t strictly illegal (side note: genuinely, thank you, People’s Republic of Massachusetts ❤️)
Fiber, 8gbps through Quantum Fiber (part of the Lumen/Centurylink family). No throttling here...
My bottleneck is the vpn that I have to have between me and the world... unfortunately. I only trust specific private trackers to not use it. I actually setup 4 seed boxes (VMs) in my garage to push more data out.
Proxmox cluster... and big storage truenas node.
And a dirty amount of networking... big cables on the right is QSFP, 40gbps 2x in lagg per server.
These pictures were just after a transplant to a new server rack. So everything is off... but the blinkin' lights are real.
Edit: Didn't turn off anything before I ran these...
108TB SHR reporting in.
8TB reporting for duty. 🫡😂
Seriously though. What's the best help to lend out say 2tb?
Edit:This is a serious question.
I think it was annas archive that has a page for what data they need mirrored the most based on your storage space available. After looking into it.
IpFS like ddh says makes the most sense probably. But you can archive a lot of raw text. Try to save what you think the Nazis would burn. I doubt archive.org survives many more years. Leaked archives of american research papers too.
A bunch of USB sticks and external drives turned on and checked from time to time with rare files I need.
Walking along I guess. Bringing some tea.
20gb strewn across 3 RAIDS, no idea what file system type they use.
14TB RAID1 setup reporting in.
324TB misc here for duty
The day the Internet Archive was being attacked and sued, was the signal.
They don't have to participate, but it's a good article to raise awareness for your non tech oriented friends and family.
This is a massive problem, but at the very least it's happening in an era of very cheap data storage.