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Title is a little sensational but this is a cool project for non-technical folks who may need a mini-internet or data archive for a wide variety of reasons:

"PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of Wikipedia, street maps, survivalist information, 90,000 WikiHow guides, iFixit repair guides, government website backups (including FEMA guides and National Institutes of Health backups), TED Talks about farming and survivalism, 60,000 ebooks and various other content. It’s part external hard drive, part local hotspot antenna—the box runs on a Raspberry Pi that allows up to 20 devices to connect to it over wifi or wired connections, and can store and run additional content that users store on it. It doesn't store a lot of content (either 256GB or 512GB), but what makes it different from buying any external hard drive is that it comes preloaded with content for the apocalypse."

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[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Is it also hardened against EPM's?

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 5 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Wrap em in foil. Boom protected. But kinda moot if there's no power.

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 6 points 10 hours ago

I was hoping it would be one of those drives built to last hundreds of years. Oh well.

[–] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (4 children)

Not sure if this is allowed, but I had to see if this was true, and also if it was expensive- it isn’t!

(I do not work for, or with anything involved in this)

[–] golden_zealot@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 hours ago

I just purchased 18 TB of surplus disks for 200 CAD, the price there doesn't seem that good to me.

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[–] Apple87sagan@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Just ordered mine!

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