Looks super cool wish there was a version with more storage. 256/512gb is on the low side for end of the world
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Wouldn't something like this be potentially quite useful if you live in an area that could easily see a natural disaster that results in weeks without a connection to the outside world? Sure you could build a raspberry pi to do it yourself but not everyone is capable of doing that and its also a low power consumption device which is useful to keep your backup power going longer, ideally through a battery as a generator normally doesn't do very low wattage efficiently. Solar is variable and lower power demands means you can go smaller, or helps keep it more reliable.
I find prepper stuff has a fine line between reasonable preparation for something that may well happen and then you get into the crazies that think the world is ending and they are actually going to achieve anything in such a situation beyond dying alone.
As I live in the UK the most likely disaster is a couple cm of snow which will break most infrastructure, shops will run out of things like milk and bread for days. This happened a few years ago, I had to resort to making tortillas instead for my lunch.
My doomsday kit is just a bottle of SoCo and a camping chair.
What if we could calculate the bending of light around black holes and just hammer away data at space and pick it up again at a set interval.... No storage needed!
Am looking for research funding.
So your data storage is limited by how fast you can transmit it multiplied by the return trip around the black hole. Like an eternally rotating tape.
"Hey babe, what what temperature do I cook the chicken at?"
"Um... give me ten thousand years or so and I'll let you know."
Maybe I should just use these and cancel my internet
I remember when offline backups that were unaffected by EMP were everywhere.
They called them books.
Yeah okay, carry that amount of information in your go bag via physical books.
Hope you have a microscope.
microfilm is a real thing btw.
it was used for army intel for decades.
Explain how this fits in a go bag:
What's relevant to the army for office use isn't necessarily relevant for a shit hits the fan scenario go-bag.
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"And this here is my Wikipedia room."
And over there is my pornography stadium
I prefer to call it the masterbatorium.
It's a little off the beaten path.
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If you enjoy this sort of stuff make sure to support the Kiwix Project which like 90% of these commercial offshoots are based off of.
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It should at least be in a (sorta-)Raid1. What good does it do if it implodes?
It's a raspberry pi, the operating system microsd will be long dead before any of the data is corrupted. ;-)
(And probably before you'll ever need this thing.)
If you're concerned why not just have two of them? That's more secure, you can store them in different places.
Why not both?
Money. Raid 1 would make every Prepper Drive cost a lot more, since it would need double the storage space. Fewer people will buy them. Instead, keep them cheap and let the people who are truly concerned about redundancy solve the problem themselves by buying two.
You wanna tell me a 256/512GB SSD is that expensive?
I think to believe the prepper this targets are the same that build a bunker for 6 figures in their backyard.
In all seriousness: SSDs (even enterprise grade excluding brand tax) are not that expensive.
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It's should be a 3 drive raid 5 parity but you can only buy 1. Then when the world ends you must find the people that have the other two.
Imstant RAID-party generator for Doomsday
Sounds like a good plot for a novel.