Title is a little sensational but this is a cool project for non-technical folks who may need a mini-internet or data archive for a wide variety of reasons:
“PrepperDisk is a mini internet box that comes preloaded with offline backups of Wikipedia, street maps, survivalist information, 90,000 WikiHow guides, iFixit repair guides, government website backups (including FEMA guides and National Institutes of Health backups), TED Talks about farming and survivalism, 60,000 ebooks and various other content. It’s part external hard drive, part local hotspot antenna—the box runs on a Raspberry Pi that allows up to 20 devices to connect to it over wifi or wired connections, and can store and run additional content that users store on it. It doesn’t store a lot of content (either 256GB or 512GB), but what makes it different from buying any external hard drive is that it comes preloaded with content for the apocalypse.”
It should at least be in a (sorta-)Raid1. What good does it do if it implodes?
It’s a raspberry pi, the operating system microsd will be long dead before any of the data is corrupted. ;-)
(And probably before you’ll ever need this thing.)
If you’re concerned why not just have two of them? That’s more secure, you can store them in different places.
Why not both?
Money. Raid 1 would make every Prepper Drive cost a lot more, since it would need double the storage space. Fewer people will buy them. Instead, keep them cheap and let the people who are truly concerned about redundancy solve the problem themselves by buying two.
You wanna tell me a 256/512GB SSD is that expensive?
I think to believe the prepper this targets are the same that build a bunker for 6 figures in their backyard.
In all seriousness: SSDs (even enterprise grade excluding brand tax) are not that expensive.
It’s should be a 3 drive raid 5 parity but you can only buy 1. Then when the world ends you must find the people that have the other two.
Imstant RAID-party generator for Doomsday
Sounds like a good plot for a novel.