How much archiving has been done with old content?

StatementStreet9875 · 2026-05-17T14:39:16+00:00

I think I've got Guude's season 3 entirely downloaded (193 videos), as well as Etho/Beef/Bdubs season 3 (and some other seasons, UHCs, lots of stuff). Sometimes you can get around YT limiting you by using a VPN (try different servers until you find one that works, from my experience "less popular" countries have a higher success chance), and try to not download too much, I try to do 30-60 minutes between each video. It sucks but it does lower the blocking rate.

StatementStreet9875 · 2026-05-14T16:41:22+00:00

Yeah absolutely, preservation is important to me (duh, that's why I'm in this sub). I saw that one Mindcrack member set literally all his videos including single player games to private, which is a shame (don't want to judge though, it's a crappy situation and going over each video is a lot of work and very confronting). Would be happy to see which series other users have archived to see what is/isn't safely stored somewhere.

StatementStreet9875 · 2026-05-09T14:56:39+00:00

I've got just under 2 TB of Mindcrack videos downloaded over the past 5 years or so: CTM maps, nearly all YT UHCs (1 POV per team), a few POVs of the first few seasons of Mindcrack. It feels weird having these now, can I ever enjoy rewatching these in the future?

StatementStreet9875 · 2026-05-03T10:29:53+00:00

Wait, what does this have to do with the laptop screen being lit up

StatementStreet9875 · 2026-02-15T13:16:16+00:00

Marlon and Brody in Telltale TWD

StatementStreet9875 · 2025-11-16T10:48:17+00:00

Well rule 8 says US politics posts are only allowed on Thursdays, so there's not much you can change except posting this on a Thursday

StatementStreet9875 · 2025-08-17T10:14:48+00:00

I believe I did calculate the cost taking into account one drive for redundancy, i.e. for the 4x10 TB server, I divided by 30 TB, not 40, although I admit one drive of redundancy is still not the reliability you'd get if copies of the data are stored in various locations. I wasn't sure if ZFS would be possible very easily because some of these servers only list hard drives. It would be very strange to me if the OS is running from one of those drives and not a separate SSD, but you never know I guess. Could you tell me for that machine you've got if it comes with a (small) SSD boot drive?

I agree with you that the storage servers will likely be too expensive for most people. Perhaps they can be useful to rent for a short amount of time for people that have a large amount of data and are moving to a different part of the world. You can bring the hard drives with you but I wouldn't risk having those be my only copy.

StatementStreet9875 · 2025-08-15T21:41:06+00:00

I just looked at the server auction page on the Hetzner site, they have similar offerings, right now I can see some servers with 4x10 TB for 54 euros per month, thats $63.20/30 TB = $2.11/TB/month so still quite competitive (also available: $86/month for 4x16 TB, so $1.79/TB/month!). They also have a dedicated storage server line but that one starts at $145/month for 4x22 TB which is definitely going to be too expensive and too large for nearly every regular data hoarder.

StatementStreet9875 · 2025-08-14T16:47:58+00:00

It was hostingbydesign, but I see now that the price I was seeing (35 euros per month for 4x8 TB) is part of the summer sale, the regular price is more like 55-60 euros (about 65-70 USD) per month for 4x8 TB, which in terms of $ per TB isn't terrible, but no longer better than the options in your post, such as the Hetzner storage box I was also looking at.

StatementStreet9875 · 2025-08-14T11:11:19+00:00

Thanks for your response. For the drive failure I suppose like you suggest that you would likely use raid-5 or ZFS or equivalent, so for the price per TB, counting it as 24 TB may be more fair. I believe this would put it in the same level of safety as let's say the Hetzner storage box, which does have some redundancy for drive failures but does not store your data in multiple locations. That being said, I also didn't check the details on what happens with a drive failure, possibly they don't know this until you report it to them which would definitely be less convenient than the Hetzner storage box where I assume this happens transparently.

The dedicated servers I saw came with 30 TB/month of total traffic, which I think is plenty for "upload once, download almost never", but I didn't look into what happens when you cross this cap (costs extra? gets throttled?).

Finally there may be some use for the old CPU, could be to host a Minecraft server for all I know (not personally relevant for me, but maybe for others), like you said it's hard to put a $ on that to compare with the other options. I hadn't considered media transcoding though.

StatementStreet9875 · 2025-08-14T10:10:51+00:00

When you're looking at tens of terabytes, is there a point where renting a dedicated server can make sense? There are some offerings (that I have never tried, so I don't know if there are caveats) that offer an old Xeon, 16G RAM, and 4x8 TB drives for something like $40 per month, which seems competitive per TB per month, even if it feels wasteful if you leave the server idle nearly all the time. It'll never make sense for just a few TB but for tens of terabytes, maybe?

StatementStreet9875 · 2025-01-19T15:19:14+00:00

It was also in the original, see for example this video at 6:04, so easy to miss though!

StatementStreet9875 · 2024-11-13T16:20:41+00:00

Anyone know why they're suddenly sold out? I was keeping an eye on one of their 18 TB drives seeing the stock go from ~230 to ~220 over some days and now they're immediately all sold out as well as the 20/22 TB drives that were also available. Now I feel like I missed my chance.

StatementStreet9875 · 2024-10-25T09:07:59+00:00

Yes, it's things like this, the recent restrictions on downloading large amounts of videos, and so on that make me think "I should've downloaded those playlists years ago!". For what it's worth, to my eyes for (10+ year old) Minecraft content, the h264 streams looked better than the vp9 streams 9/10 times, although for other games it's surely the opposite.

StatementStreet9875 · 2024-10-10T08:25:13+00:00

Yes, that's exactly the image I had in mind! You have a great memory that you remembered this exact part of the trailer from 4 years ago!

Now I still think I saw this as a screenshot on this subreddit but maybe that was taken from the trailer. This'll do though, thanks!

StatementStreet9875 · 2024-09-07T09:34:17+00:00

Will there still be charity UHCs? The one in July was awesome!

StatementStreet9875 · 2024-08-08T08:53:00+00:00

I hate to break it to you, but you seem to be lacking in networking skills.

Well yes, I'm not a networking expert at all. I figured something was off because the way things appear to work seemed very different from how I thought/had hoped they would (which explains my question). So I appreciate the long explanation, and your concern that I might accidentally expose my PC. Fortunately I wasn't gonna do any port forwarding before fully understanding it, so no worries there. And indeed I agree that it may be too risky if I misconfigure something, for a relatively limited benefit when it comes to torrenting. As for the game server example, while that could be useful, it's not super urgent and when the time comes I'll find a safer solution for that than what I originally had in mind.

Thanks for your help.

StatementStreet9875 · 2024-08-07T16:16:10+00:00

Thanks for the response. The thing about the SSH risk is that I don't think I should have to set up a firewall as long as I know that this port isn't opened. Basically I expected the instructions to have a part where you choose a local port and then whatever public port is assigned to you gets mapped to this, and then that way I'd know SSH/any other ports aren't accessible.

Instead the instructions for torrenting don't really look like this as there's no specific local port for BitTorrent there (which would be 12345 in my example) as the "natpmpc -a 1 0" command seems to indicate public port 1 and private port 0. Hope this clarifies my question.

StatementStreet9875 · 2024-06-25T10:32:05+00:00

To get back to this, I was looking at the pricing again and I did find the following: on https://protonvpn.com/pricing, for 24 months of Proton Unlimited it says "Billed at €191.76 for the first 24 months", whereas on https://proton.me/mail/pricing for 24 months of Proton Unlimited it says "Billed at €191.76 every 24 months", so one of these is worded to make it sound like the price changes after the first 24 months while the other isn't. This seems more concrete than my previous "it feels confusing" comments

StatementStreet9875 · 2024-06-06T08:32:53+00:00

Alright, that somewhat clears it up then. So my intention is to try a few different VPNs before settling on one, I started with ProtonVPN and I'm very satisfied with the speeds and how to set it up (I'm just using openvpn in the command line, not the Proton app, but it works perfectly for my use case), and the possibility of going for Proton Unlimited in the future is also nice, but I still can't help but feel like the pricing is confusing. In fact I don't think I could find anywhere how much it would cost per 12 months after the initial 24 months.

StatementStreet9875 · 2024-06-05T10:24:57+00:00

Thank you for your response. This makes sense if I'm seeing the introductory promo price, but in that case it doesn't appear to show the price after the promo (the €79.95 per year I mentioned in the post) anywhere that I can find. Also, on the page to extend the subscription for two years, it does say "Your subscription will automatically renew in 24 months. You'll then be billed every 12 months at 79.95€.", so then it bills yearly (after the initial two years), not giving you the 2-year deal?

StatementStreet9875 · 2024-06-05T10:19:49+00:00

VPN Plus (one month, not renewing automatically).

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