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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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Technically impressive! That’s a HUGE collection!
I am curious, though, as to your reason for doing this?.. Storing and maintaining 150 TB of small video files is going to be costly and time consuming…. While I do understand that it may be a good idea to archive some specific content that you may fear will otherwise be lost over time, in this case the volume is huge that you can never even watch all of it — let alone know if the content is something worth keeping?
No offense, everyone is free to spend their own time and money on whatever. But I do get curious what the plan is behind all this?