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This is less useful than libraries of congress.
Yeah. My video collection tend not to be that long. Like 10mins normally.
I disagree. I very much want something like this at some point for media storage. One of these babies could replace all of my spinning disk drives.
Make sure you make backups - it’s better to have multiple small drives in case of failure than one big, but in any case 3-2-1 backups!
I meant the measure quoted
Then I guess I disagree for a different reason—the ballpark estimate definitely helped me conceptualize how far that storage would go for me.
It doesn't say the bitrate of said movies so it is indeed useless
It’s a ballpark average. The point is that it translates to “a holy shit ton of movies”. I need to store a holy shit ton of movies.
Buy a dozen and you could fit a good chunk of LibGen.
Almost two years of non stop video.
Honestly, that size of drive doesn't need a comparison. This isn't for your average user, so you don't need to dumb it down for them.
Yeah really. It's been years since I saw a 90m movie.