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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Travel-Sized says hoarding (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I’m in search of a small, travel-sized way to store massive amounts of data, primarily 4K remux movies. I’ll be going to Antarctica, where my internet will be limited. I’ve been told that they have plenty of standard-def movies, a handful of blue rays, and a small-ish collection of HD movies digitally. What they’re missing, they say, is full-bitrate 4K movies, and I want to bring some. I know these films can grow upwards of 30-50GB.

I have been looking at M.2 NVME drives… grabbing a few 2TB drives and enclosures seem like a good option, I think I should be able to squeeze about 40 movies on each (assuming 50gb) drive. Is there a better option? Spinning disk drives are not an option, otherwise I’d grab a 20tb HDD and be done with it. Edit: I see the typo in the title… I can’t change it… it’s supposed to say Travel-Sized Data Hoarding.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I have a media server built in an Apache 1800 case with four 2tb 2.5" ssds in it.

If I where doing this, I would fill a hard case with nvme drives or 2.5" ssds and put 4k remuxes if you're dead set on 4k, or 1080p remuxes, the ones on my server are 6-8 GB. Yes, you can get super high capacity ssds, but they are real expensive. The reason I have 2.5" drives in my box was price. I paid $50 for each one.