• Please review our updated Terms and Rules here

The large archive of various mirror sites and consolidated information on retro computers - mirrors.pdp-11.ru

I’m ready to expand Retrolib.info — the additional disk shelf is already purchased and waiting — but I don’t have the budget to buy the drives for it.

Goal: 12× Seagate ST2000DM008 (2TB) → about +18TB usable capacity for the archive (mirrors, disk images, manuals, software).

Best way to help: send a physical HDD (in Russia, HDD prices increased dramatically due to sanctions and shipping/logistics, so a drive is often more valuable than the same amount of money).

If shipping is hard, you can sponsor a drive via PayPal: $175 = 1 HDD equivalent.

Details + live progress: https://retrolib.info/donate.maxiol

Every drive directly translates into more preserved and publicly accessible history — thank you!
 
SuperMax said:
I’m ready to expand Retrolib.info — the additional disk shelf is already purchased and waiting — but I don’t have the budget to buy the drives for it.

Goal: 12× Seagate ST2000DM008 (2TB) → about +18TB usable capacity for the archive (mirrors, disk images, manuals, software).

Best way to help: send a physical HDD (in Russia, HDD prices increased dramatically due to sanctions and shipping/logistics, so a drive is often more valuable than the same amount of money).

If shipping is hard, you can sponsor a drive via PayPal: $175 = 1 HDD equivalent.

Details + live progress: https://retrolib.info/donate.maxiol

Every drive directly translates into more preserved and publicly accessible history — thank you!
Click to expand...

You can serve data from optical media as well. Using dual-layer recordable DVDs you can store around 8.5 GB. It's a decent backup medium even if their write-once nature and limited access speeds make them not ideal.

Likewise proper magnetic tape for data storage can store a lot of data even if it isn't particularly speedy access.

With enough RAM you can setup a ramdisk and use that to serve a rotating/request-specific set of files from archival media.
 
Istarian said:
You can serve data from optical media as well. Using dual-layer recordable DVDs you can store around 8.5 GB. It's a decent backup medium even if their write-once nature and limited access speeds make them not ideal.

Likewise proper magnetic tape for data storage can store a lot of data even if it isn't particularly speedy access.

With enough RAM you can setup a ramdisk and use that to serve a rotating/request-specific set of files from archival media.
Click to expand...
This isn't about archival storage - it's about expanding the capacity for hosting the project.
 
SuperMax said:
This isn't about archival storage - it's about expanding the capacity for hosting the project.
Click to expand...

I'm simply pointing out that there are other ways to deal with limited storage than just adding more hard drives.

I.e. you can have an indexed archive and search tool so that desired/requested files can be pulled in and served on demand.

There's no reason that every file you have has to be instantly available 24/7/365.
 
Al Kossow said:
I assume you've done a reliability evaluation of bottom of the barrel Seagate drives.

There isn't that much of a difference in price with 4tb from someone else.
I have never had a IBM/Hitachi/Toshiba (change in ownership) 4tb generation drive fail.

I never had a 2tb Seagate that DID'T fail
Click to expand...
The 2TB drives were chosen deliberately – this is the maximum drive size supported by the HP MSA20 enclosures.

I currently have a total of six HP MSA20 enclosures (72 HDDs) in my server room, and I have no reason to consider the DM00x drives unreliable.
I also have DM001 drives stil working.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top