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PSA: Download on your hard drives, never trust online hosting. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 3 months ago by ModerateImprovement@sh.itjust.works to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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TLDR: Download your content offline before it gets lost forever.

From now on you should never trust online hosting, I started seeing a lot of piracy sources( Streaming websites, torrent indexes,.. Etc) get shut down.

So I highly recommend for all pirates to download anything they want offline to reuse and don't trust keeping it online, sadly for me, a lot of material had been lost as there is almost no online service or piracy service has it( I am talking about material that is 5-10 years old.).

I know that this is not the first time piracy websites/hosts gets taken down but this time feels different as it became aggressive and I feel that in the next months a considerable amount of content are going to be lost.

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[–] style99@lemm.ee 19 points 3 months ago (9 children)

12 TB drives are pretty cheap right now.

[–] RxBrad@infosec.pub 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Just bought a bunch of $75 12TB disks from GoHardDrive's eBay storefront.

Still running through the diagnostics, but nothing has jumped out yet, 48hrs in. Sure, they're 4 years old and have over a petabyte of lifetime writes. They also have 5 year warranties.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Aren't these old and abused disks...?

[–] pipes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

HDD usually don't have a limited number of writes like SSD do, if they are robust, maybe enterprise units, they can last a long time.

In a home environment some prefer using slower (5400 vs 7200), non-enterprise hard drives, maybe fewer drives with higher capacity, to reduce noise, power consumption and improve cooling (in enterprise settings this stuff is standardized and they don't care about noise, in my custom pc I might have forgotten to use the vibration dampeners or I mounted the disks vertically..every white box is different).

Also there are big differences between different models and makers. If they're cheap enough those helium filled enterprise drives can be one of the best options!

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

This is all true but I've seen my fair share of enterprise disks die after a few years of use.

In my case I'm using ZFS so a disk or two of varying types might not be the end of the world. In the 9 years I've had my NAS I've lost 3 WD RED 3B disks. Kind of surprise at my failure rate tbh

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