[hyperbovine]

Also, marginally less likely to suddenly vanish in a poof of lawsuit one day. See Napster.

[jacquesm]

But storage costs have dropped by orders of magnitude since then and 'personal copies' of SciHub are a definite possibility.

[IronBacon]

I've read somewhere a couple of years ago that SciHub was about 35TB of data, quite big but still manageable.

[jacquesm]

It's a bit more now, going on 80T or so. Still quite manageable. A large NAS will do.

[m1el]

I just happen to have a 80T NAS that I plan to use as a sci-hub mirror, is there a way to download it? libgen torrents are dead.

[jacquesm]

email?

[IronBacon]

So if the 35TB figure was correct a few years ago, I didn't expect now to be more than doubled.

Do you happen to know if it's only SciHub or it also includes Libgen? If it's only SciHub that's a lot of papers... ^__^;

[jacquesm]

Just scihub.

[snaky]

$800, considering $200 for one 10TB HDD.

[mirimir]

Well, there are torrents available, if you have the storage.

I'm confident that there are many backups. And the data could be hosted in takedown-resistant ways. It arguably is already, in Russia. Given the current political situation, I doubt that Putin would sell them out.