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I'm looking for a diskspace of possibly 1TB online

Edit: my idea is to use it like as an external harddisk for everyday stuff. Encrypt the disk, put my filesystem on it, mount it as external drive kinda. Never worry about backups or lost data etc, as the provider would take care of it

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[โ€“] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 121 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Since you didn't mention your requirements, I'll assume data integrity isn't super important. In that case, allow me to introduce you to /dev/null as a service. It's free and has unlimited capacity.

[โ€“] DarkenLM@kbin.social 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now we just need to invent a way to read the Void of Nothingness to retrieve the data and bam! Infinite storage.

[โ€“] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's easy, just read from /dev/urandom. The access speed is super slow, but eventually you'll find your data

[โ€“] zero_iq@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk man, I think it might have some reliability issues... I tried restoring my data and all I got back was a badly-typed copy of the complete works of Shakespeare.

[โ€“] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

Try running: sed 's/blurst of times/worst of times/g'

[โ€“] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

This gave me a hearty chuckle. Thank you for showing me that wonderful piece of software.

[โ€“] secret_ninja@feddit.nl 9 points 1 year ago

This is hilarious. I love it haha

[โ€“] Asudox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the website, it was a funny read.

[โ€“] u202307011927@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd never expect to find an answer like this lol. Thankyou

[โ€“] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Happy to help! Let me know if have any other technical questions :)