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I don’t know who needs to hear this but 128GB BD-R XL M-DISC is SOTA for consumer-available archival optical storage (for backing up your models)
If you’re trying to download and preserve your local LLMs in case of future availability issues due to AI-related politics, your best bet is either 128gb or 100gb Blu-Ray optical disks, more specifically BD-R XL M-DISC standard format which are archival-grade and built to last for like 10 of our lifetimes. And yes, cheap USB thumb drives are the other option, but they are considered volatile storage and could be affected by static discharge and other electrical issues. So if you’re worried a...
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