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Sounds like WORM (write once read many)

NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
My own usage would be satisfied with that sort of storage, and it doesn't even need to scale past single digit petabytes, I don't think. I probably even only need single digit terabytes for rewritable, everything I put on the Synology I expect to keep for decades all the way up to forever.
- taneq 3y ago
  640 terabytes should be enough for anyone. ;)
  - lagniappe 3y ago
    Hi Bill :)
  - NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
    Realistically, I am probably never going to have more than about 20,000 movies. Right now, I'm above 5000, but as they become more obscure and less B movies and more Z- movies, I would lose interest. Currently, I'm getting them at low bitrates, only about 3 gigs each in 265. But if I were to do them from lossless 4K bluray remux, they'd go up towards 100 gigs each, never beyond that (I think). So, x30 for the increase in quality, and x4 for for quantity. I'd probably still get the low bitrate version for streaming, but it's inconsequential to the math. I currently have about 120 terabytes capacity (maybe more if I get the Synology expansion chassis, but I think I can only do another 5 bays that way). This means that (for movies), 10 petabytes would suffice for the rest of my life, and likely for the next couple generations. Even adding television into the mix, it looks like that's currently at half what my movie collection is taking up, so 15 petabytes. Music probably isn't worth factoring in. And my 5000 ebook library, while small, is only a few gigs. If I somehow raise that to a few million, still wouldn't notice. Anything that gets me into the middle hundreds of terabytes cheaply (or with good redundancy, affordable backups) is a godsend. Your 640 terabytes thing really is good enough for me to almost within an order of magnitude.
    - bee_rider 3y ago
      Maybe we’ll start publishing movies as 3D environments instead, so you can walk around them and see the film from any angle. I’m sure we can eat up lots of drive space with photorealistic models and textures for things that are normally hidden.
      - Dylan16807 3y ago
        Maybe, but right now your average movie isn't even going for 4K.

My own usage would be satisfied with that sort of storage, and it doesn't even need to scale past single digit petabytes, I don't think. I probably even only need single digit terabytes for rewritable, everything I put on the Synology I expect to keep for decades all the way up to forever.

taneq 3y ago
640 terabytes should be enough for anyone. ;)
- lagniappe 3y ago
  Hi Bill :)
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y ago
  Realistically, I am probably never going to have more than about 20,000 movies. Right now, I'm above 5000, but as they become more obscure and less B movies and more Z- movies, I would lose interest. Currently, I'm getting them at low bitrates, only about 3 gigs each in 265. But if I were to do them from lossless 4K bluray remux, they'd go up towards 100 gigs each, never beyond that (I think). So, x30 for the increase in quality, and x4 for for quantity. I'd probably still get the low bitrate version for streaming, but it's inconsequential to the math. I currently have about 120 terabytes capacity (maybe more if I get the Synology expansion chassis, but I think I can only do another 5 bays that way). This means that (for movies), 10 petabytes would suffice for the rest of my life, and likely for the next couple generations. Even adding television into the mix, it looks like that's currently at half what my movie collection is taking up, so 15 petabytes. Music probably isn't worth factoring in. And my 5000 ebook library, while small, is only a few gigs. If I somehow raise that to a few million, still wouldn't notice. Anything that gets me into the middle hundreds of terabytes cheaply (or with good redundancy, affordable backups) is a godsend. Your 640 terabytes thing really is good enough for me to almost within an order of magnitude.
  - bee_rider 3y ago
    Maybe we’ll start publishing movies as 3D environments instead, so you can walk around them and see the film from any angle. I’m sure we can eat up lots of drive space with photorealistic models and textures for things that are normally hidden.
    - Dylan16807 3y ago
      Maybe, but right now your average movie isn't even going for 4K.