Post B56y3WuGHFGcWt1nUG by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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(DIR) Post #B56sWCXEUt4s1OXqM4 by Herman_Hetherington@poa.st
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> The dataset, which allegedly contains more than 10 petabytes of sensitive information> Cyber security experts who have reviewed the data say the group is offering a limited preview of the alleged dataset, for thousands of dollars, with full access priced at hundreds of thousands of dollarsat $10 per TB that would be $100k for storage> An account calling itself FlamingChina posted a sample of the alleged dataset on an anonymous Telegram channelThinking you're anon on Telegram in the big 2026? There are real places to hawk this data. Sounds like BShttps://www.cnn.com/2026/04/08/china/china-supercomput...
(DIR) Post #B56sWCmpYtYQnlqIfQ by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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10$/TB on what planet?I don't think even something like ipfs or whats that crypto that pays you for storage and bandwidth? storj? (if that even is still a thing?) has 10PB You can get 5$/TB on shit like Wasabi but the data could only be pulled once or the bill would be in the hundreds of millions and they would absolutely notice 10PB of data on a single user account
(DIR) Post #B56smObtMzMc6aRk0W by Herman_Hetherington@poa.st
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I'm talking just buying physical storage.
(DIR) Post #B56smOwo7E5t9SERbk by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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20TB drives on eBay going for 500CAD amazon 700CAD+ or you can shuck them from external for 600$+ thats like 25$/TB for used and abused and put away wet drives. where you seeing 20TB for 10$/TB?
(DIR) Post #B56t3uZdmaqSA5kHGy by Herman_Hetherington@poa.st
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I was rounding down a bit from $11 but this was mostly just a floor to show how ridiculous selling this for 100s of thousands was. Obviously running and maintaining that hw has additional costs and I wouldn't necessarily expect them to hold it themselveshttps://diskprices.com/
(DIR) Post #B56t3un6yVcWps32Gm by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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holy fuck can you imagine the power required to run 334 3TB Seagate drives -- thats without any kind of backup just the raw data LMFAO No way
(DIR) Post #B56xnUso25U9cWhbDU by Infinite_Justice@poa.st
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Don't worry.If it's seagate, you wouldn't have to run them long - only until they break.
(DIR) Post #B56xnV7LA36yLbVCs4 by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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I mean, the same can be said about any manufacturer
(DIR) Post #B56y3Wkgqpbw3CY9ZI by Infinite_Justice@poa.st
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Yes but to a lesser extent.
(DIR) Post #B56y3WuGHFGcWt1nUG by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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Not any less than Toshiba, which is very quickly becoming a very enterprise-driven driveI replaced My "I can stand to lose this" array with Seagate EXOS enterprise drives that were pulls from dells with <10 hours power on time for dirt fucking cheap. Somebody dumped hundreds of them on the market at the same time around ~180 USD each so I blew my load on them. Everything I care about is on an array of HGST helium drives. I've never lost one of those, lost tons of WD and only one seagate personallyedit: forgot the drive failure chart
(DIR) Post #B56yJtCPA4HUInJbXs by Infinite_Justice@poa.st
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He lost a bunch of WD. 🤔
(DIR) Post #B56yJtTQ8ntN9ZHC4G by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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I just recovered poast's media off a RAID with two identical WD drives that failed within 11 hours of eachother maybe 3 months ago
(DIR) Post #B56yWk48QkEHjwZko4 by Herman_Hetherington@poa.st
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I think the bad Seagate rep is more historic. Same for WD being reliable. 10 years ago this was true
(DIR) Post #B56yWkE3pqAYEjDgHI by Infinite_Justice@poa.st
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Seagate was a complete disaster around the time that maxtor bought it, which was purely expected.
(DIR) Post #B56yWkMvItG4gDMl5k by Herman_Hetherington@poa.st
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I think you have that backwards.
(DIR) Post #B56yWkaOUo29LzfW5Y by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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tfw had a maxtor diamondmax 20GB drive, that thing was so slim and quiet compared to everything else. it was wild time back then manSeagate has caught up and exceeded expectations. WD is having a lot of issues and lest we forget the CMR/SMR bullshit
(DIR) Post #B56yqElqUgxyTKJieO by Herman_Hetherington@poa.st
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Good drives and hilariously bad financial decisions
(DIR) Post #B56yqEvltmuEy6xe7c by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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Back then the only place in my home town was a city over at a military surplus hilariously enough. My parents bought us an IBM (at the time their canadian brand of the Aptiva was called Ambra) full black vcr pizza-box shaped desktop with a cyrix media GX processor in it. within a week or two of the warranty expiring the CPU died so we went out to the city to the surplus and they tested the CPU and then took it and a screw and screwed it to one of the joists near the test bench and said "you need a new CPU" and to this day it's still screwed to that joist. I remember that day like it was yesterday and I was like 8 or 9 at the time, Cyrix MediaGX 266
(DIR) Post #B56yxg5HLFQfD5xFRY by Infinite_Justice@poa.st
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A 20GB drive?Did it come with a free mangle for drying your clothes?
(DIR) Post #B56yxgUnoLqUUFtdE8 by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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My first "real" PC had a 2.1GB drive in it. It was partitioned exactly in half and had the original Fallout on it, no idea how it got installed. Cyrix 133MHz 16MB ram
(DIR) Post #B56z6taCWURTgLoVPs by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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this drive. I still have it. I think it's in my desk at my moms house. Next time I see her I'll see if I can find it. It still runs, tooit was like 2/3 the normal height of a standard 3.5" HDD at the time, no idea why
(DIR) Post #B56zX7374u7Eyaq2aW by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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oh, thats the 10GB version, same shit but 20GB*
(DIR) Post #B5708zR3pmPcMo6Jto by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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actually come to think of it we were the first family in my friends group I knew to have internet that wasn't dialup. we skipped it entirely because my family was so behind with everything. we signed on with Rogers Wave @ Home I think in 1995? Do you remember that @Herman_Hetherington? There was ONE company in North America that was distributing WAN over COAX and it was Wave@Home so if you had whatever cable company in the US it was Cable Company Wave @ Home, and then they all dropped the Wave part and it was just Company @Home until some merger with Yahoo then everything was Yahoo@Home. Back when they still offered NNTP for free 😠They fucked up the roll out with the original LANCity modems (pic related) so every one of them was unlocked so if you had a 10/100 ethernet card in your computer you got the full 100mbit up and down for like, 6 or 7 months before they pushed an update to fix it but people had backed up the original firmware so you could downgrade it and restore the same speed for another like 2-3 years. shit was so ca$h. second pic also related, me and my bitch during 1995
(DIR) Post #B570NLXCT294xZon20 by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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(not that you could utilize it because PATA drives were 66MB/s peak avg 45-50MB/s but still)
(DIR) Post #B570ottwnfClMjb4cK by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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Seagate and WD have swapped this position for as long as I've known either company. HGST is a WD product but -- and hear me out -- this is their only enterprise product worth putting any kind of trust in. their helium filled 0 friction drives absolutely mint, I've got first gen helium drives running still with perfect SMART. I am not shilling HGST, but I will buy them where available. I am however shilling for helium-filled drives because zero friction is definitely an added bonus to longevity in 24/7 enterprise operations
(DIR) Post #B570xPdufc6i7u9ivg by Herman_Hetherington@poa.st
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I'm in Oz so while we did get cable here around that time, the two companies who cabled streets were both very expensive and capped downloads pretty low so unless you needed the ping it wasn't worth getting. DSL came around 2000 so that's what my family hopped on at blazing fast 128kb.I do remember the company that cabled my street had Optus@home interestingly enough
(DIR) Post #B570xQEQTrJXx9EsqG by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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Yeah that company was huge. Looks like it was a joint venture with Optus according to their wiki page https://wiki.poast.org/wiki/@Home_NetworkYou'd think it would be longer considering they pioneered bringing it to the home user
(DIR) Post #B571doj7nZNk5NoVY8 by Infinite_Justice@poa.st
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saves on datacentre floorspace as well because you can have one rack floating above another
(DIR) Post #B571dpCu0rCXZjkHxo by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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Good thing Poast uses all enterprise NVMe. Cold storage is spinning rust because storing 10 copies of 1TB of text and 3 copies of 5TB of media in multiple offsite locations is very costly (this is just Poast, not considering the several dozen TB Poast TV uses or the fuck huge database of Poast's Matrix Server)
(DIR) Post #B572VEGbZWV8e1wUuu by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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give.poast.org patron.poa.stbtw if you dont already donate because the cost of storage is just as insane as ram now thank you and God Bless
(DIR) Post #B573BhyFWWtYvrc1zs by galgadotisawhore@poa.st
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What is the recommended amount that a user should donate? I have made a couple of yearly donations but am not sure if it's enough.
(DIR) Post #B573BiB0l56TZRaDtA by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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brother anything helps. 5, 10, 15$. I am not here trying to break the bank for anybody but I do regularly have to remind people that it isn't free to run because unfortunately we don't ever meet monthly amounts. our operating costs I tried to fairly divvy up in the monthly 3000$/mo goal but we do have biannual and triennial bills as well that are hard to factor into that due to taxes and stuff. you wanna send a dollar a year? go ahead, there's literally like 15 people doing that. we get 74 cents of it but it's 74 cents we wouldn't have otherwise
(DIR) Post #B573NBsAgn5irCFENE by galgadotisawhore@poa.st
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Well I'll keep helping as much as I can. I love this place.
(DIR) Post #B573NC4DxyjTSZsrA0 by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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thank you friend and god bless you for carrying the bag for those who may not be able to or dont want to because of maybe anonymity or other issues. thank you, truly
(DIR) Post #B5747PH3CCKDk0v3Pk by A39IqhddUOQ2Phx7Zo.graf@poa.st
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if that was you who just made a donation friend, it is appreciated