datahoarder

Not Dead Yet: WD Releases New 6TB 2.5-Inch External Hard Drives - First Upgrade in Seven Years (www.extremetech.com)

DVDs, Blu-rays, and VHS tapes: How long does physical media last? (qz.com)

My name is lars and I’m a hoarder. Too. (www.pcmag.com)

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/13631943...

Samsung boosts 1Tb V-NAND bit density by 50 percent (www.eenewseurope.com)

DVD’s New Cousin Can Store More Than a Petabit (spectrum.ieee.org)

Get Intel's legendary Optane 905P 1.5TB SSD at a discount in the US (www.rockpapershotgun.com)

[ExplainingComputers] Explaining File Compression Formats (piped.video)

I imagine a lot of people who are into data hoarding already know a lot of this but I thought the video was pretty neat. It briefly talks about the history of different compression formats and provides a brief blurb about why you may want to use one or the other....

CERN's Open Source Storage Systems (FOSDEM 2024) (fosdem.org)

3d Printz's Case Turns a Raspberry Pi Into a Neat, 10TB-Capacity Network-Attached Storage Appliance (www.hackster.io)

scraped media links from instagram and threads (gist.github.com)

I have scraped a lot of links from instagram and threads using selenium python. It was a good learning experience. I will be running that script for few days more and will see how many more media links I can scrape from instagram and threads....

Hobbes OS/2 Archive to shut down in three months – OSnews - Lemmy.World (lemmy.world)

Lost Doctor Who episodes found – but owner is reluctant to hand them to BBC (www.theguardian.com)

cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/4478496...

CERN's storage swells beyond the exabyte barrier for LHC (www.theregister.com)

Do SSD failures follow the bathtub curve? Ask Backblaze (www.theregister.com)

Anyone here use roboyoshi's datacurator-filetree? (github.com)

Anyone here use roboyoshi’s datacurator-filetree? What do you think of it?...

Too many users abused unlimited Dropbox plans, so they’re getting limits (arstechnica.com)

What the Hachette v. Internet Archive Decision Means for Our Library | Internet Archive Blogs (blog.archive.org)

Last Friday, the Southern District of New York court issued its final order in Hachette v. Internet Archive, thus bringing the lower court proceedings to a close. We disagree with the court’s decision and intend to appeal. In the meantime, however, we will abide by the court’s injunction....