Archivists Are Trying to Make Sure a ‘Pirate Bay of Science’ Never Goes Down (2019)
I've seen estimates of the total sci-hub/libgen size at anywhere from 20TB to 75+TB.  Probably there are lots of dupes in there, and a dedicated dedup effort could reduce that size by a bit.<p>But taking the upper end:  A WD Black 10 TB platter drive[0] costs $329, which means it would take only $2700 or so to have enough storage space to archive what's basically the sum total of human scientific knowledge.<p>[0] - <a href="https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-black-desktop-sata-hdd#WD101FZBX" rel="nofollow">https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-...</a>