>>9655 >BestBuy... I think it was like 26 USD per terabyte for a 5TB external HDD. It was approximately 19 USD per terabyte for an 18TB external HDD. (External HDDs between 5 and 18 TB = some price between those prices, but not much of a deal IIRC.) I have previously seen some in the last couple years insist that hard drives above 2 to 4 TB were unreliable, but was uncertain on valid that is. Are you having them delivered? I also wonder if that also might have a impact on lifespan.I say this though as someone who has had used drives that were shipped on pretty poor conditions, from ebay,last years!
>>9656 >"Long ago" I was operating data in a bad way (not very forward-thinking), though I did have good backups of some/most things, but not of all things, resulting in important stuff being lost. This is probably me right now. It is a disorganized mishmash of old drives and handmedowns. Albeit I don't think all data needs to be backed up in a paranoid way. also,I am more drawn to BTFS and DragonflyBSD's Hammer2 than ZFS, which might be a sin in some circles. Hardly messed with much out of ext4 and ext2... yes,I had some reasons to use ext2 in the modern day.
>Therefore, if I keep operating in a good way and keep paying for it. A tip: remember to have an offline "cold storage" local backup for all highly-used HDDs since that certainly warrants a backup; have local backups for everything else if you can. ZFS plus constant updates, yeah, I can see how that would kill a drive pretty quickly.
>So, perhaps I can seed this until I die: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:3850e42c8449a43e2959
>which is WARC: pbooru.com (897.92 GiB). Would be neat to get all torrents to a share ratio of 15 or more, which is what I try for on some or all of them. Maybe it'll take decades to share that pbooru.com torrent to a ratio of >10. How long have you had this WARC? Did you take it from when the backup site died? I do know that ponybooru went through a instance or two of mostly abandoned backup sites but I know little details on that other than running into the last one and peaking in at the mess that was left.
