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In May, Google made international headlines when it announced that it was going to offer free, unlimited storage for photos and videos. If you read Google's press release, you'll see that the free storage plan limits images to 16 megapixels and videos to 1080p resolution. But if digital images are simply collections of binary data and if all other files on your computer also just collections of binary data then isn't unlimited photo storage simply unlimited storage?
If only something existed that made this easy to do; you know, something that could bitmap all the things....
[ Ed's Comment: This link points to the author's own personal software solution, but I'm sure that others will come up with alternative ideas.]
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* Twilight1 will have to hang his Mozilla beanie dinosaur in effigy if
Netscape sells-out to Alot Of Losers..
(Score: 1) by tripstah on Monday June 29 2015, @11:59AM
Amazon also allows bitmaps on their cloud service. The image portion is free for "prime" members and they supposedly they accept files up to 2GBs. That would work out to a 16,000 x 16,000 x RGBA bitmap.
As for error correction, RAR includes parity information (it's one of the reasons I looped through it versus just splitting). By default B.A.T.T. encodes 10% parity information, but that's user configurable. If you want extra assurance, there's always https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAR2 [wikipedia.org].