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Peter Forret
Personal blog · blog.forret.com · on HN as pforretprogramminghardware
Peter Forret's personal blog at blog.forret.com covers programming and hardware. Since 2011, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked by commenters as sources: one post gives 2006 Flickr photo storage figures (about 15TB of new photos a month), another covers a 2011 review of Backify's 512GB backup service.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
because eloquence is, like, whatever
What Hacker News says?
I think you're grossly underestimating the size of the Web. Flickr alone were storing 15TB of new photos a month back in 2006: http://blog.forret.com/2006/10/a-picture-a-day-flickrs-stora...
Comment linking /2006/10/a-picture-a-day-flickrs-storage-growth/
on “Did the Microsoft Stack Kill MySpace?”Submitted Realistic daily range of an electric vehicle: 50% of EPA range as a story · 20 points
HN discussionFrom purely circumstantial evidence, this appears to be Backify's issue completely. It's run by Tarandeep Gill, who seems to have garnered a bit of a reputation. He was behind the "IE users are stupid" hoax. source: http://blog.forret.com/2011/10/is-backify-512gb-backup-for-f... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AptiQuant I'd avoid his other companies (AptiQuant and atCheap.com) as well.
Comment linking /2011/10/is-backify-512gb-backup-for-free-also-for-real/
on “Backify responds to LiveDrive contract termination”Submitted How Not to Suck at Supercharging as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt’s not that dramatic. The max TBW on those drives is actually much higher. https://blog.forret.com/apple/2021/02/22/ssd-wear-on-apple-s...
Comment linking /apple/2021/02/22/ssd-wear-on-apple-silicon-m1/
on “Apple M1 Macs appear to be chewing through their SSDs”Submitted Creating image reveal videos with ffmpeg and primitive as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Benchmark: Trimming Whitespace in Bash (2022) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running a CPU Benchmark on Apple Silicon M1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Educating the Chinese for Security as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted DIY project: my 1.5TB bamboo USB SSD disk bay as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Jumps in AI's Evolution as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Now I Can Just Print That Video as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Every country in the world in 1 (Unsplash) photo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web Services in the Console as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Binary confusion: kilobytes and kibibytes (2005) as a story · 1 points
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