Yeah, but won't you need enough electricity to power a monitor, keyboard, and mouse for this to work?
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That doesn't take much power, a solar panel or two should be more than sufficient, or you can rig something up w/ a defunct ebike (just run the motor backwards to generate electricity).
If the monitor draws even 20W, you're gonna be tired of that eBike generator solution really quick.
You'd be charging a battery, not running directly off the bike. Still, solar panels are extremely cheap these days. I picked up a 120 watt panel for 50 bucks recently, it could keep something like this running for hours each day.
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It sounds like you can connect with your phone, which reduces the energy footprint quite a bit.
A single rooftop solar panel can do that, and charge a battery for a little after dark use while you're at it.
A true prepper will get an eInk monitor and resist the urge to scroll until they read all the way to the bottom of the page, but even a normal monitor uses a small fraction of a solar panel. Keyboard? Near zero. Mouse? Near zero x10 but still near zero when compared with 200W. RasPi? less than a normal monitor.
Good idea for normal people that are not really knowing how and what to put on such a device
I was hoping it would be one of those drives built to last hundreds of years. Oh well.
Not sure if this is allowed, but I had to see if this was true, and also if it was expensive- it isn’t!
(I do not work for, or with anything involved in this)
I just purchased 18 TB of surplus disks for 200 CAD, the price there doesn't seem that good to me.
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My doomsday kit is just a bottle of SoCo and a camping chair.
It should at least be in a (sorta-)Raid1. What good does it do if it implodes?
It's should be a 3 drive raid 5 parity but you can only buy 1. Then when the world ends you must find the people that have the other two.
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It's a raspberry pi, the operating system microsd will be long dead before any of the data is corrupted. ;-)
(And probably before you'll ever need this thing.)
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Just ordered mine!