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Ask HN: If you had 15TB of Storage and NO bandwidth costs - What would you do?

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Back story, my brother and I own a data backup business and we are in the process of migrating to a new data center in Souther California. As part of our migration strategy we will be left with a Sun Microsystems Server running Open Indiana with 15TB of direct attached SAS storage.

Basically we have a nearly unlimited amount of bandwidth based on our current consumption, and we are looking for ideas for what to do with the machine.

We would be open to almost anything - if you can come up with a cool idea for how to use the gear or if you have a project that needs storage, let m know and we can see if we can work something out.

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srid68
Hi,

       I am Singaporean Indian (srid68 at gmail) (Currently on Holiday Travelling in India) will be back in Jan to Singapore. I am interested in your offer.

       I am currently working on a Cross Platform Mobile App Framework (very old Prototype at www.arshu.com) using Mono for Android and I would like to use that Framework to create a Proof of Concept Photo Album Site.

       Basically users Upload a Zip of Photos, Specify Start Date, Expiry Date and Password if any and Download a Android Native App Album. We charge for every download of the Android App to the Uploader/Downloaded

       If interested, please send me mail.
Jun8
Large storage and very high bandwidth immediately brings to mind video applications. How about this idea: Indievault, i.e. make available movies that cannot be distributed through the usual channels. This year more than 4K movies applied to Sundance, only a handful (I believe <100) got in. Contact these directors and get them to make their content available on the system. Conservatively assuming 1GB for a movie (some will be shorter than usual) you can make all those available and then some.
ForumRatt
PORN! is the first thing that comes to mind....
Allaun
Well, You could offer various distributions to host. You would be surprised at how much bandwidth gets eaten when you host a repository for a distribution.
ohashi
I remember someone on Reddit opening up an S3 bucket to the world for a while and letting anyone up/down-load anything.