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Does anyone have a complete copy? The seeds are very slow. I know someone willing to pay for this data. Shoot me an email.
by kanzure 8y ago
Does anyone have a complete copy? The seeds are very slow. I know someone willing to pay for this data. Shoot me an email.
- nneonneo 8y agoThe _whole_ thing? It's 54 TB, how do you plan on receiving it?
- userbinator 8y agoI think tape would probably be the best choice --- a single LTO-7 tape cartridge holds 6TB and costs <$100USD. Of course the drive is quite expensive, but HDDs are less reliable and more expensive per GB.
- beagle3 8y agoThe scale usually tips towards LTO at around ~100TB or so (give or take 20TB depending on where you are located and how good your negotiation skills are), and that's only if you can afford a tape downtime until you get a new one (in case it breaks), and to refresh the whole library come LTO-10 (because it won't even be able to read your LTO-7 tapes). It almost always makes better sense to back up to hard drives that carry their own connectors and "tape" with them -- I've recently found two disks from 2001 in storage. I needed a $15 IDE-to-USB connector because I don't have IDE connectors anymore. And there were 16 bad 512-byte sectors over one 20GB disk, and no bad sectors over one 15GB disk. Easily readable. I also had a couple of backup tapes from the same era inside the same box I found. The required drive brand is not even listed (it's not LTO), and I'd be surprised if (a) I can find a tape that can read them, and (b) if they still work properly. But I don't need them, because the drives they backed up are still readable .....
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- progval 8y agoTapes are only good for offline storage. If you want online storage, you'll need one drive per tape, and you would get huge lookup times.
- paulmd 8y ago> Tapes are only good for offline storage. > If you want online storage, you'll need one drive per tape, No, tape libraries exist, and would be considered 'nearline' storage. https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/storage/tape/library https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/storage/tape/library > and you would get huge lookup times Yes. This is not a good system for random access.
- progval 8y agoIndeed. But the initial investment is very expensive.
- paulmd 8y agoIt depends on your financial scale. A fancy tape library, sure, but if your company is in-sourcing hundreds of TBs of backups surely you are not destitute. Glacier is always cheaper. On the other hand I paid $185 for a LTO-5 drive a year or two ago (no library, manually operated). 1.5 TB on a $20 tape is still pretty good in my book.
- kanzure 8y agoWhat are you talking about? "I'll show up with hard drives and whatever I have to do. I'll rent the damn Amazon snowball truck if I have to."
- solarkraft 8y agoThen just get the torrent ... Adequate payment will be seeding 2x.
- icebraining 8y agoThe complaint is that the torrents are slow. Which I can confirm, the trackers seem dead and the DHT hasn't found anything yet.
- degenerate 8y agoCan't you just attach it to the email?
- aldanor 8y agoIt's just five 3.5'' HDDs (12TB ones), which would amount to about $2,000 or a little more.
- themodelplumber 8y agoWere they to help you, would that person not be opening themselves up to >avg legal harm?
- throwaway47861 8y agoSince this is technically very illegal I'd be inclined to view your message as a bait to capture and jail one of the very first people who managed to mirror the whole thing. No offense, just seems fishy.