Doomsday Prep

[Natsoup]

If I wanted to do some "Doomsday Preparation" and, thinking ahead, preserve media that I consider valuable (movies, Tv series, books), How should I start? Right now these are the options I'm considering:

 

- Buy many DVD-RW and save movies and shows in 720p

- Buy a decent printer and print books from PDF files or transcripts (only one copy of each book for safekeeping)

- Buy large hard drives and keep everything there

 

Only problem with the last option is that it takes more specific hardware to extract data. First two would be very costly though. Any other ideas or improvements upon my own?

[Anghammarad]

When thinking about a doomsday you should take into thought that electricity will be gone. 

 

If you have solar energy and some backup batteries you could download the whole wikipedia onto a harddrive/laptop. Then while solar power regenerates your backup batteries you can for example keep a laptop charged. 

 

But then, you will also need food and water, without both every stored data may be obsolete because well, you won't be around anymore to use it. 

 

If you live in a big city you are screwed by default. 

[Tedster]

8 minutes ago, Natsoup said:

Only problem with the last option is that it takes more specific hardware to extract data. First two would be very costly though. Any other ideas or improvements upon my own?

What do you mean with this?

[Bustapalapeno]

How "doomsday" are you thinking here? Will you have reliable electricity, and will you want to use it to watch GoT for the 33rd time. 

[Natsoup]

Just now, Tedster said:

What do you mean with this?

I mean that most laptops will need an adapter to read hard drives unless I use all 2.5' drives while most PC's and Macbooks will have a DVD drive

 

1 minute ago, Bustapalapeno said:

How "doomsday" are you thinking here? Will you have reliable electricity, and will you want to use it to watch GoT for the 33rd time. 

GoT for the 3rd time, yes  but no reliable electricity. Solar is being used in this scenario

[Natsoup]

3 minutes ago, Anghammarad said:

When thinking about a doomsday you should take into thought that electricity will be gone. 

 

If you have solar energy and some backup batteries you could download the whole wikipedia onto a harddrive/laptop. Then while solar power regenerates your backup batteries you can for example keep a laptop charged. 

 

But then, you will also need food and water, without both every stored data may be obsolete because well, you won't be around anymore to use it. 

 

If you live in a big city you are screwed by default. 

Wikipedia is not a bad idea. I don't live in a big city so no worries there. Solar is the way to go here.

[Tedster]

Just now, Natsoup said:

Wikipedia is not a bad idea. I don't live in a big city so no worries there. Solar is the way to go here.

Yeah - and it's not all too difficult to archive the entirety of either. Of course they probably don't want you doing it, but it's easy.

[Guest]

Buy a bucket of blue paint and paint whatever it isn't blue yet to blue. Works perfectly for me I guess. Blue is <3 blue is lyf

[Tedster]

2 minutes ago, Natsoup said:

I mean that most laptops will need an adapter to read hard drives unless I use all 2.5' drives while most PC's and Macbooks will have a DVD drive

 

GoT for the 3rd time, yes  but no reliable electricity. Solar is being used in this scenario

Ah. Well you should have some nice enclosure things with you. Also perhaps you should be storing any storage drives in enclosures anyways as they would be more survivable.

[Natsoup]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

Buy a bucket of blue paint and paint whatever it isn't blue yet to blue. Works perfectly for me I guess. Blue is <3 blue is lyf

Dex are u ok

[Tedster]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

Buy a bucket of blue paint and paint whatever it isn't blue yet to blue. Works perfectly for me I guess. Blue is <3 blue is lyf

Wow, even your member title thing fits!!

[Natsoup]

3 minutes ago, Tedster said:

Ah. Well you should have some nice enclosure things with you. Also perhaps you should be storing any storage drives in enclosures anyways as they would be more survivable.

DVD a bad idea?

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Natsoup said:

DVD a bad idea?

yes, you need a Blu-Ray

[Tedster]

1 minute ago, Natsoup said:

DVD a bad idea?

I'm not saying that DVDs are a bad idea, I'm just saying that more mediums is more better.

You should have things stored on optical disks (and if you're going optical I should really suggest bluray discs for their higher capacity), on hard drives that are nicely secured, and perhaps even on tape.

If you're storing TV shows and movies or whatever, you should consider encoding them in HEVC for while it'd take longer to do, they'd take up much less space.

[Natsoup]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

yes, you need a Blu-Ray

 

1 minute ago, Tedster said:

I'm not saying that DVDs are a bad idea, I'm just saying that more mediums is more better.

You should have things stored on optical disks (and if you're going optical I should really suggest bluray discs for their higher capacity), on hard drives that are nicely secured, and perhaps even on tape.

If you're storing TV shows and movies or whatever, you should consider encoding them in HEVC for while it'd take longer to do, they'd take up much less space.

 

Isnt blu ray stupidly expensive

[NinJake]

Figure out how to weaponize anything and everything for self defense. When people want to come steal  your GoT dvd, use it as a ninja star to take them out!

[Tedster]

4 minutes ago, Natsoup said:

 

 

Isnt blu ray stupidly expensive

Per gigabyte? Let's find out!

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Verbatim-BD-R-Blu-Ray-Disc-Pack/dp/B0047V24MA/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1496152742&sr=8-5&keywords=blu+ray+m+disc

250GB for 11 pounds and eighty-three pence.

Twenty-one pennies per gigabyte.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Verbatim-43549-4-7GB-DVD-R-Silver/dp/B000BEZYLA/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1496152886&sr=8-3&keywords=blank+dvd

470GB for 19 pounds and forty-eight pence.

Twenty-four pennies per gigabyte?

 

Bluray is cheaper in this case?. Regardless, you'll go through drives more quickly with DVDs, and swap out more frequently, and you're more likely to break DVDs if there are more of them...

 

However, perhaps you should only be looking at M-Disc stuff.

 

 

 

[SorcierX]

Not sure why you think "doomsday" is coming, but, if it is, you've got more important things to think about than backing up your data.....like, food / water, a bunker with means of waste disposal. 

 

But, I'd just buy a couple / few Passport Drives, that's probably your best bet TBH, if you ever get out of your bunker, they will rebuild, USB will still be a thing and Passport Drives are relatively cheap. 4TB for $120 on Newegg.

[FloRolf]

24 minutes ago, Natsoup said:

Solar is the way to go here.

But what if the machines took over an you darkened the sky in order for THEM not to use solar anymore?

That's the more likely Doomsday to happen.

[SorcierX]

1 minute ago, FloRolf said:

But what if the machines took over an you darkened the sky in order for THEM not to use solar anymore?

That's the more likely Doomsday to happen.

Unrelated, but why are you running an AIO and not OC'n a 2600k? seems like a waste.

[Tedster]

Just now, SorcierX said:

Unrelated, but why are you running an AIO and not OC'n a 2600k? seems like a waste.

Might be something better suited to a DM conversation than this thread

[FloRolf]

3 minutes ago, SorcierX said:

Unrelated, but why are you running an AIO and not OC'n a 2600k? seems like a waste.

ITX case, ya know...  Sad story but right now with 30°C outside and my GPU folding 24/7 i'm reaching Idle CPU Temps of 60 or even 70°C. There's literally NO headroom for overclocking ^^

Oh and also my Chip is one of the few Sandys that sucks. I can only get to 4.7 but that's already on a quite high voltage.

[Natsoup]

Is this 1250gb for $15?

https://www.amazon.com/Optical-Quantum-OQBDR06LT-50-Blu-Ray-Recordable/dp/B009KXE4VO/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1496154955&sr=8-5&keywords=Blu+ray+m+disc

@Tedster

[Tedster]

1 minute ago, Natsoup said:

Is this 1250gb for $15?

https://www.amazon.com/Optical-Quantum-OQBDR06LT-50-Blu-Ray-Recordable/dp/B009KXE4VO/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1496154955&sr=8-5&keywords=Blu+ray+m+disc

@Tedster

Sure looks it....

[Natsoup]

36 minutes ago, Tedster said:

Sure looks it....

Definitely a good idea

 

thanks for pointing this out.