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

[bks]

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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[ForumRatt]

PORN! is the first thing that comes to mind....