The antifa torrent server draws 136w (not bad for 8x data center HDDs constantly chugging and a Bulldozer era AMD CPU).

0.136kWh x 24 x 365 = 1.191MWh per year.

That would cost about $179 if I had to pay for my electricity.

But instead, of my 91 solar panels, THREE of them, powers this server for the year.

The last HDD is installed! The antifa torrent server is now complete. 8x 14TB HDDs, for 112TB of data preservation. Crowdfunded. Solar powered. T-girl powered. F the terrorist.

Next step is the disks must re-balance. Once that's done, I will sort through torrents, add some new ones, and maybe pull ones if room is needed for a higher urgency one.

The server is seeding while balancing.

Now those are some full HDDs

It does take a while to move around terabytes. But with this live pool, I can add, remove and swap drives with no downtime (except when the PC is off). RAID would be pathetic on this 112TB volume!! Drive pooling for the win.

Backing up AndroidFileHost. I need some help.

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/40695509

The last hard drive, drive eight of eight, has landed for the public information / antifa torrent server. 112TB of data will be preserved, and torrented around the world thanks to many generous donations.

EDIT: 100% good!! I'll swap this in once the previous round of duplication completes on drive #7.

UPDATE 08-20-2025: There is 2.77TB left to duplicate, then I'll put in the new drive 8. This should happen tomorrow.

The public data torrent server is currently offline as one of the remaining 6TB HDDs is removed and the new 14TB drive is in and file duplication is taking place.

The last 14TB drive will land today, get scanned, and then swapped into bay 8, and then duplication will recur.

After that the server will be back online and seeding.

What happens if I lose power during resilvering of QNAP NAS?

https://lemmy.radio/post/8892435

Filled it up

If I started doing nothing but playing all the #videoGames, watching all the #movies and #TVShows, and reading all the #books that I have downloaded I would still die without ever finishing half of them.

I'm like a dragon that hoardes pirated media just to sleep in it.

Two things I wanted to share again:

• https://codeberg.org/jessienab/AwesomeListOfMusicRetailers

A collection-in-progress of music retailers offering music in high quality, accessible, and permanently ownable formats. More important than ever when streaming sites keep removing music or even lack music you want.

• https://codeberg.org/jessienab/MontrealQueerSocial

A collection-in-progress of various queer/LGBTQIA+ oriented and focused social groups, meetups, recurring events, etc. within the Montreal (Tiohtià:ke) and Greater Montreal area.

More additions to the Queer Social list GREATLY APPRECIATED!!! Especially from transmasc + non-lesbian/sapphic/transfem spaces and folks!!!

I can't wait to see my uploads exceed downloads !! This isn't too bad. #resist
#fascism #datahoarder #digitalpreservation #archive

I just downloaded every single #torrent from #SciOp and am ensuring that all of them are now in the #antifa torrent server.

btw does anyone want the complete 1.2 gigs of torrents from SciOp in one ZIP package?

1 big SSD or multiple? New NAS build.

https://programming.dev/post/34607766

And now for our annual ‘Tape is still not dead’ update • The Register

https://lemmy.world/post/33373593

My ISP is probably sending the Men in Black after seeing today's stats

Rebuilding the media library = 1.39TB downloaded in ~35 hours. My pfSense dashboard looks like I'm running a small datacenter (which... technically... )

RIP bandwidth cap myths, at least for now...

47 new torrents from https://sciop.net/datasets/ have been added to the antifa server!! 159 torrents are seeding.

So I just ran some encoding tests for #AV1 with #Handbrake, just to see how adjusting some various settings affects the outcome. I've named the files according to the options I changed. The ones with "film grain" options had the following added to "Additional options".

film-grain-denoise=0:film-grain=FOO

This is a particularly difficult scene in Django Unchained that is prone to banding with AV1.

Source was an 8-bit 1080p Bluray.

Link: https://cloud.marcusandash.net/index.php/s/6CZ9kMnrX94LRyr