If the internet went away indefinitely, what things would you wish you had downloaded before it happened?

[legendsofanus@lemmy.ml]

Man I have never thought about it because of feeling so at ease with the digital video game stores and just downloading what I want whenever I want without keeping a physical library that would take up space. Same with books.

If the internet died tomorrow, I would have the stuff I'm playing or reading or watching downloaded but I would be out of luck for anything else until it came back. Maybe it's time to start a backup, get a big HDD or something

[ralakus@lemmy.world]

Let's assume you have all hard drives and in a setup with absolutely zero redundancy in case a drive fails.

We're using the Seagate Exos X24 (24TB) drive which is roughly $700 each brand new.

You'll need 4167 of them to store 100PB. Which puts you at $2,916,900 just for the drives.

Let's assume you already have the enclosures, racks, and servers for a small datacenter ready to go.

A drive can use 4-9w of power when spinning so assuming all drives are active (to ensure quick data access and data repair) that'll be roughly 27086w for all the drives at 6.5w per drive. Every month (30 days), that is 19502kWh of electricity used. 40 years is roughly 349,680 hours so that comes out to around 9,471,433kWh used.

Assuming you get some damn good electricity rates at $0.12USD per kWh, it'll cost $1,136,572 to run just the drives.

So in total, assuming you already have a datacenter with the capacity to install all the drives that runs on absolutely zero power, you'll spend roughly $4,053,472 over the course of 40 years.

[ralakus@lemmy.world]

There is a much cheaper way that doesn't use hard drives. It uses magnetic tapes, LTO-9 tapes specifically.

Each LTO-9 can hold up to 45TB of data (compression is used to store it on the raw 18TB).

A LTO-9 tape drive can cost $10,000. You'll need 2223 LTO-9 tape drives to store 100PB. Assuming you buy in bulk, you can get each tape cassette for $150 which puts you at $333,450 for the tapes.

Since the tapes don't use power when not ik use, this concludes the acquisition cost. None of this accounts for storing all 2223 tapes or maintenance to ensure data is still intact on them but this comes out to $343,450 in total to store 100PB using magnetic tapes.

[randomvideos@programming.dev]

The file size doesnt matter

Imagine how much money you could make selling access to specific websites

You should start downloading it right now in case the internet goes down

[applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Those naked pictures of your mom

[stinky@redlemmy.com]

For what

[friend_of_satan@lemmy.world]

I've never used arch but their docs are so helpful. Been referencing them for years.

[tetris11@lemmy.ml]

Oh please, you can find those in the yellow pages

[crabandbroom@lemmy.ml]

Yeah same here lol. Already got Wikipedia and backup copies of all my books, as well as enough TV and movies to last a good long while. Also an entire offline copy of Project Gutenberg.

[crabandbroom@lemmy.ml]

For the Wikipedia part, it's surprisingly simple. I just used Kiwix and grabbed a copy, it's only about 100gb or so. You can also use it to get offline copies of other stuff, like Project Gutenberg.

[acefuzzlord@lemm.ee]

All the images I have bookmarked on multiple devices from e621, any game I've been even possibly hesitating on pirating, all my Steam games (I don't trust Inwouldnhe able to get in and install them if I could even get into my account to begin with at that point), and downloading every single song I have saved on yt and Newpipe because I'd never see them again.

A whole slew of things.

[corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca]

Nothing.

If the Internet went away, we'd have a little time before batteries we're not viable even if replaceable, as distributing those batteries would get problematic.

We would have had no time to withdraw cash as cash, an important thing since banks will fall over at least enough to trigger an economic collapse.

No, we're all gonna need to learn how to fight, and live without hospitals and drugs and probably electricity.

We have bigger problems than ensuring we can look up the capital of Rwanda on this cached Wikipedia while we listen to The Cure.

[softestsapphic@lemmy.world]

internet =/= electricity.

[elfpie@beehaw.org]

A copy of scratch then.

[elfpie@beehaw.org]

Extra RAM.

[hatchetharo@pawb.social]

i already download all my favs from e6 and FA lul

[sir_kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

True but he's got a point. If the internet suddenly went away, there are likely bigger problems to deal with.

[hyphlosion@lemm.ee]

The Gutenberg Project, as well as those free online classes for things.

[fsxylo@sh.itjust.works]

Similar to "if the government can't cash your check, we're all fucked"

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

The amount of data required for that would be immense. From what I’ve been able to find it’s over 200 petabytes.