How about ICMag Cloud Services ?

[St. Phatty]

I've been bumping up against hard drive limitations, related to taking hi-res slow-motion videos of animals.

Then when I tried to fix it by buying some external 8 TB hard drives, they BOTH got the "system error, need to run disk check" message. This is when they have about 3 TB on them, so it's something other than a 2 Terabyte limitation.

Any chance ICMag could offer Cloud Services, where people pay money to store files on ICMag ?

I say that and realize, "OK, what about bandwidth". Well that depends on the user.

 

[Creeperpark]

It's all about incoming or outgoing money. If it costs them maybe not but if it makes money then maybe. Draw up a business model with a guaranteed profit margin and present it to the boss. You never know Friend. Great idea.

 

[StevenHXF]

I manage a number of NextCloud instances for clients and the biggest cost is storage. We could spin up a scalable filestorage system and run it from the ICmag.com domain easy enough, the issue is that people will not want to pay what it would cost for us to make the service profitable. In answer to your question, there's no way we could get people to pay what it would cost us. Now if cost isn't an issue and people just want a secure place to store files, a NextCloud instance with files encrypted at rest would do the job. Issue is that it costs $$$$.

I did consider using the expertise we have available and offering internet services to companies in the cannabis space, the idea being we try and find businesses that don't want to race to the bottom in terms of prices but instead want a solid, secure and professional service. Maybe one day.

 

[St. Phatty]

Maybe I average a 1/2 hour a day, using an app named "Agent Ransack", to find all the files larger than 200 Megabytes.

So if there's a file that's 8 Gigabytes and has some good sections of animal video or bird sounds, I then use good old Moviemaker to extract the good section, so I can delete the bigger file.

 

[St. Phatty]

Well I learned one thing about how to deal with the Hairball video files that I was dealing with.

The raw video files have to be re-rendered as soon as they come in, without investing any other time in them. That compresses a 9 Gigabyte raw file down to about 400 Megabytes.

I wonder if TV studios like NBC do this.

I imagine they are more disciplined about shooting just for a 1/2 hour webcast, so they aren't dealing with a 2 hour video from a trail cam set out to record Quail or something.