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If you knew the internet was going to be shutdown, damaged, or colossally enshittified what software would you archive for use locally and use for a neighborhood/town mesh network? Why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am specifically asking about software and needed libraries, not stuff like Wikipedia or the writings of Ernest Hemmingway.

To keep people from archiving all of github on thousands of shucked external hard drives cobbled together all Frankenstein-y to create a postapocalyptic data center assume a ~1TB storage limitation. Though I'm sure that person exists here on Lemmy somewhere :D

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

That's bonkers! How much physical space does your setup take? A room? A house?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I recently bought a 2U nas with 12 bays. 6x20T disks at the moment, but with 12 disks it could be configured as a single 200T array.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I have 90tb and it sits on a shelf 6' up in my laundry room (4x in server router/4x in external nas usb-c enclosure)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

20TB hard drives are around $300/each. 12 gets you there with excellent redundancy built in.

Toss them in one of these and you have 200TB, with redundancy and room to grow.

Not cheap to do, but the above would only run about 5-6k.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Mine is similar to this except it’s a rack mount case with bays that holds 15 drives (using 14 right now, 252tb -36tb for parity). All of my drives are 18tb and were bought refurbished in the 160-200 range depending on where prices were at.

To anyone looking to do this I strongly suggest reading about raidz expansion. You do not need to just go out and buy 15 drives, you can do what I did and get 2-3 drives many years ago then just keep popping in another every time it gets full and/or one dies

I’m at 80% utilization. Next project: disk shelf to add more drives