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Re:Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job by ivank on Sunday February 01, 2015 @11:16AM (#8980413)
I'll assume IA has 20PB+ of unique data today, going by https://archive.org/web/petabox.php

Let's guess that the average person can contribute some 300GB of their disk space. If IA wants to keep a minimum of 5 copies on the network (probably a safe number given how many people will be constantly dropping out), they need (20x1024x1024x5)/300 = 349,525 people contributing their disk space. That doesn't seem even close to attainable.

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Re:Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job by cma on Sunday February 01, 2015 @12:41PM (#8980821)
If the goal is perfection rather than triage.
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Re:Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job by true_religion on Sunday February 01, 2015 @10:38PM (#8982616)
That's not even a million people.

I originally thought that wasn't a lot of people. However, Folding@Home (which ought to be the most well known share-processing power group) only has 179,234 computers in its network.

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