:chomsky-yes-honey:
:yes-honey-left: paying for software
:chad: paying for storage (for pirated software)
Gosh I remember when 500 gb hdds were the top tier "you're never going to fill all that" mode of storage. Now video games are fucking 100 gb themselves lol
Thank god for fitgirl repacks for a lot of reasons but especially thank god for helping me be able to fit more pirated games on my external storage lmao
Selective language packs are a godsend for saving more install space. I'm amazed that isn't used more frequently for actual legitimate versions of games.
I'm still having trouble realizing how much my 24TB NAS can hold. I literally filled it with every OK tv shows and movies I could think of, in 1080p (and with an homebrew netflix-like through jellyfin), every game I ever played or might want to play, hundreds of thousands of ebooks, and I still have like 40% free. x265 helped a lot, mind you.
Coming from a time in the 90s where my main hard drive was a 2.1GB one - and that felt like a lot at the time - it's insane, and amazing.
24TB NAS
how much does that cost (both purchase price and monthly energy cost)?
Energy I have no idea - but my guess based on the PSU is: very low. Total initial cost was a little above 1k€ though I did pick a very silent, high quality case as well as a very OK CPU (aiming with it both to perform transcoding with Jellyfish with no lags for sure and to add new services to the NAS - torrent downloading, hosting dedicated servers for games, etc.). This also includes a 256GB nvme drive for the OS (debian). I also wanted a small form factor so I had to get a good mini-ITX motherboard, and holy shit are those more expensive than their ATX counterparts (makes sense mind you: higher components density + lower demand), to the point where I slightly regretted it.
Anyway: price could go lower if you were willing to compromise on some of the above (just a larger ATX case and a slightly less beefy CPU would help by at least 200€; hunting for deals would allow you to shave much more if building it over weeks/months), though admittedly the main cost was still the four good quality 8TB drives IIRC, in RAID5 - with weekly emails reassuring me of the states of the array as well as an immediate alert in case of any suggestion of failure. Also added a SATA extension card and plan to add two more drives to it (the case supports it fine), raising the storage to either 32TB or 40TB depending on whether or not a spare is kept ready. Also pretty sure by removing some of the useless shit (SSD slots and the like) from that same case, at least one more drive could fit fine.
Mine is an old gaming pc bought off a friend (core i5 gen 4) with a bunch of drives in snapraid/mergerfs. That gets rid of the storage overhead and power consumption of real raid. The pc cost about $100 and the drives were a little over $80 apiece many years ago.
It costs about three dollars to run a gaming pc with ten disks 24/7 for a month. Once the video card came out it really wasn’t too consumptive. Even as a seed of its idling most of the time!
To help you save even more storage, look into CHDs or CSOs for compressing isos (PS1, PS2, PSP, Dreamcast) and RVZ for GameCube/Wii games. I'm not aware of PS3, Xbox/360 games, or any of the other Nintendo system's best compressed standards, so if you or anyone else reading are aware of them I'd love to know.
To fill up more storage, look into adding Audiobookshelf as a companion to your Jellyfin instance for audiobooks. Ever since setting up my own instance I've been listening to more and more audiobooks (theyre great for work/commutes for me).
I only play PC games, and I'm not that into audiobooks, but the ROM idea is a good one though, thank you; built a game console for my partner a few years back using Kodi and libretro (it's awesome, recommend both) and a discarded laptop with the screen removed, though I basically stopped at PS1 games IIRC. Mostly it was used for N64 games. Might want to make an updated version as a gift.
I also plan to keep a full backup of wikipedia and erowid, and possibly resume helping keep libgen alive with the spare storage I guess (you basically seed the torrents for it, helps it stay alive - takes a lot of storage though).
i know it's a whole old fart genre, but legit i was Mr. Fucking Computer Nerd and had got this insane deal for a 20 GB HDD. all my games, all my school bullshit, my mp3s, my warez, etc barely took up 10%. my 31337 haXXor friends were like, "whoa, what are you even going to do with all that?" more piracy, obviously.
50x that on a microSD is legit crazy town, though. you're basically LaForge now. bridge to engineering, prepare to download every episode of grey's anatomy in 4k.
A kid in an art coaching class said "those old phones with cords" and the entire adult class turned to dust, myself included.
Everyone gangster until the punch cards come out.
Who remembers those?
:chomsky-yes-honey:
Clock in
KA-CHUNK
Clock out
KA-CHUNK
Get told to meet management for punching them in backwards again or for punching the wrong lines
I was meaning the punch cards you used to code with. I’m that old.
I know the feel. I remember going out with my mom one black Friday to buy a 1GB thumb drive for $40 that I needed for school.
You kids have no idea. In the 90s, I had to store my uni work on a 3.5 inch floppy.
At some point in high school or uni we had to buy a floppy but idk when exactly
The kids here don't know we lived for years without even having a computer!
Sometimes I miss the days when the only computer I had access to was in the library and you had to book a time to check your email and do homework.
My c64 in the 80's used a 5.25 and i think cassette tapes, my neighbor's vic20 used cartridges.
Be careful, there are a lot of fake SD cards, even from supposedly reputable shops, that have their microcontroller reprogrammed to tell the OS it has an extremely large amount of storage, while in reality it's just repeatedly overwriting a much smaller amount of space. Sometimes the fakery is pretty sophisticated, complete with a spoofed file table that makes everything look like it's working fine until you actually try to retrieve any files from it. $99 is just on the edge of believability, 1TB usually goes for about twice that but it could be legit and steeply discounted.
it was a cyber monday amazon deal and they were out of stock by the time I tried to buy it
Anyone else old enough to remember zip drives ?
The Zip drive is a removable floppy disk storage system that was introduced by Iomega in late 1994. Considered medium-to-high-capacity at the time of its release, Zip disks were originally launched with capacities of 100 MB, then 250 MB, and finally 750 MB.
100 mb :walter-shock:
2003: I'm going to be able to fit all my music and photos on this!
2023: Downloading 2k gambo thrones at 150gb
4k is gonna hurt.
Micro sdcard? Damn. I was impressed when I got a terabyte nvme for a 100. That's amazing.
they're the size of a fingernail!!
11mm × 15.0mm
we live in the future but it sucks
Good game, everybody. We really nailed that cyber punk dystopia feel. Let's go back to caring about people now. Please?
Storage's evolution has really been insane, like close to SF-level, period. The SD card you describe is not far removed from an atomic-level storage - like three orders of magnitude at most.
When I was 14 I shoveled snow every for an entire winter to buy a single 500 GB drive :chomsky-yes-honey:
My first drive was like 80mb. The next was 300, then 1gb. The gigabyte one felt infinite.
wait until you need to have 1 exabyte to play the next Call of Revolution: Red Army 3 Electric Jamboree at the age of 90. has vr gloves that rub your hands for arthritis as you try to shoot people with your ak2077
