Store them on punch cards. They are cheap.
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What are you talking about? Windows ISO?
I personally have had good luck with NOS drives from eBay. Not going to spam the seller here and it's possible that I've just received wiped drives that went through a SMART reset. But they show zero signs of physical wear, even inside the screw holes.
My budget allows for new now so I no longer have to rely on discount NOS. But it's an option for someone on an extreme budget.
You can throw them in an off-the-shelf NAS, or build your own using something like Unraid or TrueNAS. I use TrueNAS and it works great for me but the learning curve may be steep for some. Both TrueNAS and Unraid work well on old hardware so if you've got that old first-gen i3 from 15 years ago, it will be more than enough horsepower to run the NAS.
screw hole
LOL
Get an HDD for it. Internal or external, depends on you.
Alternatively, you may store it in Backblaze personal.
How much are we talking about? I mean, Backblaze B2 or Wasabi might be a good option. Or hetzner if you're in Europe.
I’d also like a Bentley and a house for free if someone can help me out.
…and a rocket ship.
Free? Encrypt it, split it into chunks and upload onto something like bitbucket. Or, if you're not scared of the law, straight up turn that stuff into torrents so everyone else can enjoy it too
Free? Encrypt it, split it into chunks and upload onto something like pastebin. Or, if you're not scared of the law, straight up turn that stuff into torrents so everyone else can enjoy it too
- Roll your own budget NAS
- Find the cheapest dollar per terabyte storage you can
- Profit
We all want a large amount of free space. But unfortunately it doesnt exist. Build a nas
If you upload your stuff to torrenting sites, you could consider that a free back up.
The problem is even if there was some sort of free cloud storage, it would be unreliable. If you've been around, Google cloud used to offer a lot more but has since cracked down- sometimes with relatively little warning.
Lmoa terabox offers 1TB for free (you can get premium for free by watching x amount of ads, collecting coins daily, convert coins to premium plan, premium is needed for faster upload / download, and ability to upload a bit bigger files and video files (you can zip videos and bypass blocking of video uploading when you don't have premium), good to know: it's a bit sussy Chinese, used to be known as dubox.