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.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.[0] - https://shop.westerndigital.com/products/internal-drives/wd-...