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2:24 am oyveyo pew pew
2:32 am oyveyo i wonder how much paper it would take to print a hard copy of my entire hard drive... let's do the math... if a single monochrome page pixel represented a bit on the drive, and i used both sides of the paper.. that's 800kbit per side so 1.6mbit per page divided by 8 is 200kbyte per sheet and my HDD is 250GB so that's 1.25 million sheets of paper
2:32 am oyveyo using 100dpi print settings
2:32 am oyveyo and a usable area of 8x10
2:33 am oyveyo how much would that much paper cost... and how much toner would i use? hmmm...
2:36 am oyveyo it's $1800 for a pallet of paper, which is 200k sheets... that's $11,250 just for paper
2:37 am oyveyo roughly 6+ pallets of printer paper
2:38 am oyveyo which is 6 metric tons of paper
2:38 am oyveyo that's a small forest
2:39 am oyveyo i'm not even going to go so far as to calculate the toner price... i've already hit my paywall just on paper
2:39 am oyveyo it's definately cheaper just to ghost the HDD to another drive as a backup
2:40 am oyveyo i'm not even on drugs folks
2:42 am oyveyo amazon will give me free shipping on 6 pallets of paper
2:44 am oyveyo so the backup process would be a nightmare... printing over a million double-sided pages... but the restore process would be even worse... scanning over a million pages back into the computer
2:45 am oyveyo i don't think i have that many years left to live to complete 1 backup/restore cycle
2:45 am oyveyo hmm, if my printer can do 8 pages per minute...
2:46 am oyveyo it would only take 108 days to print out my hard drive
2:47 am oyveyo assuming constant feed and no jams
2:48 am oyveyo maybe i could actually do it in a "reasonable" amount of time... say backup/resture within like 2 years
2:48 am oyveyo i should start a gofundme for the project

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