For me it would be a full copy of wikipedia, an offline copy of some maps of where I live, some linux ISO’s, and a lot of entertainment media.

    • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Nothing, I never said any such thing. In your case your answer to my question would be “I would not have to wish, because I already downloaded everything I want”. This makes you wise.

        • golden_zealot@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Haha, I have an ok amount of data tucked away on disks as well, but I have a huge appreciation for people who do collect data as a hobby. In the contemporary, I fully believe that having people who take it upon themselves to do this is more important than ever, even thought it is often a thankless thing to do.

          So in this case, I would throw a thank you your way for doing that!

  • balsoft@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Honestly, I think I’m mostly set already (as I often go backpacking and there’s no internet there). I have offline maps for the country I’m in and neighboring regions downloaded in OsmAnd and mapy.cz (two sources just in case), Wikipedia in Kiwix, and my custom NixOS setup as a bootable ISO on a flashdrive. I’ll probably miss being able to watch science/maths edutainment on YouTube, but it’s not something I’d download.

  • ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    If you’d download the whole wikipedia be sure to download the whole commets section for each article to have a perspective on discussions on conflicting reasons for edits. Also include all the wiki media materials for all of the public domain literature, project gutenberg, entire archive.org, a good offline OS to be able to consume all of the information and you’re golden

      • ewigkaiwelo@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        You mean electricity bills for powering the storage? I guess buying 100pb worth of storage disks would be pretty expensive enough but since it’s an archive there is no need to keep it powered 24/7, just turn them on only when you need to. It’s just a hypothetical situation anyway, it’s a thing I wish to have access to; only an experienced sysadmin can actually maintain such great archive or its copy/backup

      • ralakus@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        Let’s assume you have all hard drives and in a setup with absolutely zero redundancy in case a drive fails.

        We’re using the Seagate Exos X24 (24TB) drive which is roughly $700 each brand new.

        You’ll need 4167 of them to store 100PB. Which puts you at $2,916,900 just for the drives.

        Let’s assume you already have the enclosures, racks, and servers for a small datacenter ready to go.

        A drive can use 4-9w of power when spinning so assuming all drives are active (to ensure quick data access and data repair) that’ll be roughly 27086w for all the drives at 6.5w per drive. Every month (30 days), that is 19502kWh of electricity used. 40 years is roughly 349,680 hours so that comes out to around 9,471,433kWh used.

        Assuming you get some damn good electricity rates at $0.12USD per kWh, it’ll cost $1,136,572 to run just the drives.

        So in total, assuming you already have a datacenter with the capacity to install all the drives that runs on absolutely zero power, you’ll spend roughly $4,053,472 over the course of 40 years.

        • ralakus@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          There is a much cheaper way that doesn’t use hard drives. It uses magnetic tapes, LTO-9 tapes specifically.

          Each LTO-9 tape cassette can hold up to 45TB of data (compression is used to store it on the raw 18TB).

          An LTO-9 tape drive can cost $10,000. Assuming you get the full 45TB per tape, you’ll need 2223 LTO-9 tape cassettes to store 100PB. Assuming you buy in bulk, you can get each tape cassette for $150 which puts you at $333,450 for the tapes.

          Since the tapes don’t use power when not in use, this concludes the total cost. None of this accounts for storing all 2223 tapes or maintenance to ensure data is still intact on them but this comes out to $343,450 in total to store 100PB using magnetic tapes. While the cost is much cheaper, it’s much harder to access the data as it’s not immediately available since you have to fish out the drive you need and plop it into the tape drive then wait for it to read.

    • metaStatic@kbin.earth
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      2 months ago

      I could honestly just re-watch most of my shows until the end of time.

      I will literally never get tired of Bee and Puppycat.