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Who is data hoarder?
Data hoarder archive large amounts of digital data (terrabytes) that might otherwise be lost, such as old video games, videos and websites.
Why does they do it?
{{< spoiler "Spoiler" >}} Usually you start becoming data hoarder when something that you expected to be online and what you can freely access (e.g. bought video games/series on PSStore/Netflix) becomes inaccessable due to various reasons:
- Owner deletes data - outdated information, personal choice, hosting platform policy change
- Platform policies - if content/account violates guidelines it gets removed (e.g. for hate speech, misinformation, or copyright infringement...)
- Legal reason - content may be removed due to legal issues, such as DMCA takedown, court orders, political stuff
- Technical issues - drive on server may die and sysadmin forgot to try make disaster recovery beforehand, cloud sync errors
- Archiving - platform may decide that this content no longer relevant/needed - so they move it to more harder to access place
{{< /spoiler >}}
HowTo Data Hoard
- Buy a lot of drives, raw 10TB would be a good start
- put drives in your PC (not bad idea)
- build/buy NAS
- build Ceph cluster if you bald enough
- Use 3-2-1 backup strategy for important data
- Download everything that you've ever needed in life and never delete
- HowTo download site?
- HowTo download youtube videos?
- be a good boy and don't violate any local copyright law
{{< source >}} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_hoarding https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/yzb5m0/this_meme_speaks_to_me/ {{< /source >}}