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Just in time for me to want to upgrade the home server storage.
I guess I'm gonna have to salvage old hard drives and deal with the tiny space.
Just finished ripping about 150 of our DVD collection and space was filling up, went looking for HDDs and was surprised at the prices. Now I know why.
I just finished fixing my storage setup and was ready to add more... 😭
I have an invention that.. well, you be the judge; What if we take some cheap paper.. and put holes in it ? If we place the holes in a certain way, they will resemble digits and we could store information via holes in a paper 'card' !!
No more ram/storage problems! ..oh, and very organic btw !!
Hm, we probably need a family member to do the punching/reading of holes, but doable.
Whaddoyuthink - is it a killer invention or what ?
I'd like to see a single movie stored on punch cards. It would be massive.
Not to mention the time it would take to ingest that data