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IGB Library

#Publikationsmanagement in der #OnePersonLibrary

Liebe #LISCommunity, aufgrund unserer #LeibnizEvaluierung war es etwas still hier in den letzten Wochen.

Heute haben wir eine Anfrage unserer Wiss., die im Kontext des #Informationsbudget|s steht.

Wer kennt sich mit #Zotero #DataStorage aus? #FDM in #Bibliotheken

Unser internat. vernetztes Team möchte eine institutsbasierte Lizenz etablieren, ich begleite gerne die Prozesse, es gibt aber viele rechtl. & admin. Fragen.

zotero.org/storage/institution

www.zotero.orgZotero | Your personal research assistantZotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
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Anna Saultron🏳️‍🌈

And my external hard drive died ... Great years of Work and memories lost so to a seemingly big I can't locate because the drive reacts but it sounds horrible and the PC doesn't recognizes anything...

Hopefully my USB sticks survive long enough til I can buy a new solid state this time... :/
1 TB of backups, works and or memories lost...
4 Month ago it just worked fine I guess the storage area got hotter as I expected or it's just its natural time to die after 13 years of service.

Remember to backup AS OFTEN and as MUCH as you can and not only on one medium.

#BackUP#Data#IT
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nemo™ 🇺🇦

🚀 Meet the world’s largest external SSD: Glyph Blackbox Plus U.2 with a staggering 30.72TB capacity! 📦💾 Bigger than most HDDs, palm-sized, and built for pros needing ultra-fast, massive storage. Perfect for content creators & data-heavy workflows! ⚡️🔗 #TechNews #SSD #StorageRevolution #DataStorage #GlyphBlackbox #newz

Read more 👉 techradar.com/pro/i-found-the-

TechRadar pro · I found the world's largest external SSD, and at 30.72TB, it is even roomier than the biggest hard disk drives out thereBy Efosa Udinmwen
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Sanjay Mohindroo

Learn about servers, their history, and how they have evolved to meet the needs of modern technology. Discover the many ways servers are used in today's world and gain a better understanding of their importance in the digital age. #servers #technology #datastorage #cloudcomputing #virtualization #digitalagency #digital
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Medium · A Guide to Servers: Their Usage, History, and EvolutionBy Sanjay K Mohindroo
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WYM Mod

Ryan Browne reveals Seagate’s ambitions to reshape the AI landscape with a groundbreaking 100-terabyte hard drive by 2030, a leap from the current 36-terabyte model. BS Teh highlights the urgency to meet AI data demands while emphasizing sustainability through increased storage density and renewable energy. Seagate aims to balance innovation and environmental responsibility amidst fierce competition. Discover more about their vision: cnbc.com/2025/05/07/seagate-to
#Seagate #AI #DataStorage #Sustainability #EnvironmentalImpact #Technology #RenewableEnergy

CNBCTech giant Seagate sees hard drive capacity tripling by 2030 on booming AI demandSeagate has been touting itself as more of an AI player in recent years amid the rise of foundational models like those being developed by OpenAI.
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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

@johncarlosbaez Ooooh!

So ... I've had a theory of ... stuff ... for a while, one aspect of which goes a bit like this:

Phenomena for recording or transmission of information have a modifiable regularity which can usefully generated, preserved or transmitted (for recording or signalling systems respectively), and detected.

Think of Schroedinger's "aperiodic crystals", a notion I'd first encountered ... maybe four decades ago. (Not sure if it was Hofstadter's Goedel, Escher, Bach or perhaps Jeremy Campbell's Grammatical Man, but mid/late 1980s, regardless.)

This means that there are certain phenomena which immediately suggest themselves as recording media or transmission channels. The regularity of a smooth stone, clay, or papyrus, parchment, or paper surface, for example, which can be etched or inked. Vinyl and polycarbonate can be etched with analogue waveforms or digital bit-patterns. The regularity of a magnetic medium whose polarity can be reversed. The regularity of a waveform, be it audio, radio, or optical. And the transmission channels of speaking tubes, RF waveguides, or fibre-optic strands.

EMF, masers, and lasers in this view are fairly readily apparent as possible transmission media, I realised after the fact.

And the extreme regularity of graphene suggests that it might be usable as an extremely thin, small-structured recording medium. The challenges I'd seen for this were how it might be transformed, whether or not those transformations were regular over time, and whether or not the transformations were nondestructively detectable. That is, can it be written, preserved, and read over time.

And this suggests to me that it might be one such method for doing so.

(I'm not the first person to think of graphene as a data storage medium. Though I'm not aware that there's been any successful practical demonstration as yet.)

Incidentally, transistor memory is sort of a curious exception to my recording-medium notion in that it consists of states which are (destructively) read, and which aren't particularly reliable, though they can be sustained through a destructive read/rewrite process.

And if not graphene, then perhaps something similar to it in which a regular lattice can be disrupted.

Related notion: the symmetry between records and signals as existing in space-time and energy-matter respectively:

  • Signals act to transmit an encoded symbolic message from a transmitter across space through a channel by variations in energy over time to a receiver possibly resulting in a record.

  • Records act to write an encoded symbolic message from a writer across time through a substrate by variations in matter over space to a reader possibly resulting a signal.

toot.cat/@dredmorbius/10638852.)

Toot.CatDoc Edward Morbius ⭕​ (@dredmorbius@toot.cat)This musing follows on a set of earlier thoughts on the symmetry between *signals* and *records*. **Signals** act to *transmit* an *encoded symbolic message* from a *transmitter* across *space* through a *channel* by variations in *energy* over *time* from a to a *receiver* resulting in a *record*. **Records** act to *write* an *encoded symbolic message* from a *writer* across *time* through a *substrate* by variations in *matter* over *space* to a *reader* resulting a *signal*. Again, there are hybrid forms as well, e.g., endocrine and chemical signalling systems are based on *records* (the encoded chemicals) but distribute much as *signals*. **Edits:** Lightly updated definitions: "reader" rather than "receiver" as end-chain for records, and resulting in their complements, as well as formatting. 2023-5-11.
#graphene#recording#RecordingMedia
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grassymage

To me, data protection is pretty important. I live in the US, where our privacy laws are subpar at best, normally non-existent. We generate a huge amount of data, only for our companies and government to sift through and correlate it to our every action and location. It’s creepy, and flatly antidemocratic. So when I heard of protonmail I was pretty intrigued.

When I first signed up for the service, it was when Proton was just an email provider. Nothing fancy, not much optional storage and no drive, pass or VPN. It was a simple email provider from CERN that tailored to privacy, designed by scientists. So I decided to give it a try and created a free account. At first I simply used it to send my most important emails to. (Swiss data protection is lightyears ahead of the USA) I felt no hesitation beyond the first time switching, and I honestly was highly impressed with the level of security provided in an email. Google never gave me the option to permanently block a sender and oh lordy am I happy for that! (Many ad companies in the US don’t stop sending you emails daily or hourly, even when requesting to unsubscribe. Once they purchase your email information is non-stop D:)

In short, I enjoyed the free model and never exceeded the space. That was until this year, 2025. When data protection laws in the US essentially stopped being enforced and twitter was purchased by a very extremist neo-Nazi. Two major data hacks also leaked information from both twitter and our Social Security Office. I took a hard look at Google and all my accounts across the internet and asked: are my 18000 photos worth saving on Google? Is the free storage at my university worth it, despite the incredibly lax security Google put into it? A lot of institutions were also hit with major DNS or hacking attempts, some successful in exposing faculty and student information. I kept a lot of my personal information online, so the answer was unequivocally no for me.

I decided to break out my credit card and looked more heavily into the Proton suite. In a way I knew I was going to go with Proton; the identity/ dark web protection was particularly lovely, but I still wanted to browse my options. Most were American, which still didn’t solve the problem of data being hosted in America. Ultimately I purchased a proton unlimited subscription because, again, Swiss privacy laws are light years ahead of the US.

While the drive and other apps did take a bit to load at first, and uploading all my photos was a headache from Google (Googles fault, not Protons), I was extremely satisfied with the service I got. Drive got much snappier once it caught up to itself, and gliding through to tailor some pictures into albums, crop them and give them custom labels was a breeze. The true gem though is Proton Pass. Its service helps to protect your email and data from the dark web, and alerts you to any leaks. It’s also a great password book; so much so I feel safe storing a good chunk of my information on it. You can organize your data and passwords while also enabling a high degree of security. I myself use 2FA on anything I can, and am very glad to know even if someone gets my log in info, they will still need the particular device I use to authenticate log ins.

Ultimately, the decision to move ones data from public companies like Google and Apple are personal. But if you value privacy, security and the ability to control our own data and not be turning into a profit profile, then I would argue Proton Suite and its services are more than worth the money. Yes, to get privacy you need to spend money, but lets be honest with ourselves: has any of the “free” services actually been free? Is it worth giving away every private, intimate moment with your loved ones, your co-workers and your tastes and preferences for the “free” account? I would strongly argue no. We have a right to be forgotten online, we have a right to control our data and personal information about ourselves. That’s why I paid over $100 USD to move to a better, more privacy focused digital provider; and I’ll never look back.

https://grassymage.vivaldi.net/2025/04/16/why-i-paid-over-100-usd-to-switch-to-proton/

Cafe Ooof · Why I paid over $100 for ProtonA post on data privacy, proton and personal right to have privacy in your own home while understanding it costs money.
#Datastorage#Digitalsecurity#Proton
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) announced Monday that the General Services Administration converted 14,000 magnetic to digital records, and claimed the process saved a million dollars a year.

@DOGE on X: The @USGSA IT team just saved $1M per year by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes (70 yr old technology for information storage) to permanent modern digital records.
The problem is, magnetic tapes are regarded by storage and archivist professionals as being a stable, reliable, and safe medium for long-term data storage. Just because it’s a 70 year old medium doesn’t mean those records needed a massive overhaul to digital, that it will save any money in the long term, or that the new storage method is better.

Casual storage enjoyers might hear tape and think fragile spools of plastic that can rot or wear out. But digital storage is not necessarily a better option if you’re trying to keep information for years; digital storage rot, or “bit rot,” can affect a hard drive over years of storage, making the data corrupt or inaccessible. This happens when the electrical charge inside a solid-state storage device—like the kind of digital drive we can assume DOGE is talking about—leaks and causes the drive to lose performance."

404media.co/doge-gsa-magnetic-

404 Media · Another Masterful Gambit: DOGE Moves From Secure, Reliable Tape Archives to Hackable Digital RecordsDOGE claimed it saved "$1M per year" by converting 14,000 magnetic tapes to digital storage.
#USA#Trump#Musk
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Harry Sintonen

So, it seems that my 2.5 yo Seagate Exos X20 drives are reporting some quite insane read amounts:

Device Statistics (GP Log 0x04)
Page Offset Size Value Flags Description
0x01 ===== = = === == General Statistics (rev 1) ==
0x01 0x008 4 24 --- Lifetime Power-On Resets
0x01 0x010 4 22429 --- Power-on Hours
0x01 0x018 6 76426225523 --- Logical Sectors Written
0x01 0x020 6 667681744 --- Number of Write Commands
0x01 0x028 6 48054400526096 --- Logical Sectors Read
0x01 0x030 6 2915801075 --- Number of Read Commands

If those numbers would be correct that'd mean the drive would have been reading average 304 MB/s for the whole 2.5 year lifetime. I find this somewhat implausible. The drives max out around 285 MB/s with sequential read.

Did I hear "But surely Seagate's own openSeaChest drive utilities are better and report the correct values!" from the crowd?

Here's the relevant part from openSeaChest_Info -i:

Annualized Workload Rate (TB/yr): 9624.71
Total Bytes Read (PB): 24.60
Total Bytes Written (TB): 39.13

So, equally confused.

EDIT: Earlier I confused some numbers due to PB vs PiB being so different.

smartctl -x output from the Seagate Exos X20 drive showing some insane amount of blocks read: "Device Statistics (GP Log 0x04) Page Offset Size Value Flags Description 0x01 ===== = = === == General Statistics (rev 1) == 0x01 0x008 4 24 --- Lifetime Power-On Resets 0x01 0x010 4 22429 --- Power-on Hours 0x01 0x018 6 76426225523 --- Logical Sectors Written 0x01 0x020 6 667681744 --- Number of Write Commands 0x01 0x028 6 48054400526096 --- Logical Sectors Read 0x01 0x030 6 2915801075 --- Number of Read Commands"
#Seagate#Exos#datastorage
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