We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB), grouped by popularity.

This release includes the largest publicly available music metadata database with 256 million tracks and 186 million unique ISRCs.

It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.

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[–] BlueRingedOctopus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Considering the Price per TB is 10-11 US dollars, it's gonna cost $3500 max

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

10US dollar per TB?? 🤣🤣 More like 30/35€ per TB for a good graded HDD!

Let's not talk about SSDs or nvme which are more in the 120€/TB.

I always hear people say that storage comes cheap nowaday... I'm still looking for that cheap HDD on amazon... It has been 10 years 🤣🤣

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

$10/TB is a bit low, but not far off. Serverpartdeals has refurbed enterprise/NAS drives at about $15/TB right now, and thats with the AI pressure driving up prices. I recall seeing 18TB drives around $12/TB a few months back.

The above is well loved vendor in the IT space. Much better place to buy from than Amazon, as they actually guarantee their inventory is legitimate.

[–] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 5 points 2 weeks ago

US of A often has way lower hdd prices compared to Europe.

Take the serverpartdeals price and add shipping and import tax.

[–] BlueRingedOctopus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

It seems this post was locked down for some reason so I couldn't reply sooner.

Here you go -

$10.61/TB - HGST Ultrastar He8 HUH728080AL5200 | 0F23268 | 8TB 7.2K RPM 128MB Cache SAS 12Gb/s 512E 3.5"

$10.83/TB - WD-40 Ultrastar HE12 12TB SAS 512E

$12.65/TB - Seagate Expansion Desktop 26TB, Externe Harde Schijf, 3.5"

$13.63/TB - Seagate Expansion 22TB External Hard Drive HDD - USB 3.0

If it weren't for AI creating a shortage of drives, these prices would've been even cheaper

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Is it that cheap now?? I would kill for 10tb

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's nowhere near that cheap.

[–] rainwall@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Here you go mate. They dont have 10TB in stock, but the do have 20TB refurbs at around $15/TB.

[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Thx