diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index ad4d91d6..d5fdac01 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -283,12 +283,12 @@ For more discussion on managed and paid hosting options see here: -Re-Snapshot Button in Admin UI +The Re-Snapshot Button button in the Admin UI works by using hash-date trick. ### Storage Requirements -Because ArchiveBox is designed to ingest a firehose of browser history and bookmark feeds to a local disk, it can be much more disk-space intensive than a centralized service like the Internet Archive or Archive.today. However, as storage space gets cheaper and compression improves, you should be able to use it continuously over the years without having to delete anything. +Because ArchiveBox is designed to ingest a firehose of browser history and bookmark feeds to a local disk, it can be much more disk-space intensive than a centralized service like the Internet Archive or Archive.today. **ArchiveBox can use anywhere from ~1gb per 1000 articles, to ~50gb per 1000 articles**, mostly dependent on whether you're saving audio & video using `SAVE_MEDIA=True` and whether you lower `MEDIA_MAX_SIZE=750mb`. -**ArchiveBox can use anywhere from ~1gb per 1000 articles, to ~50gb per 1000 articles**, mostly dependent on whether you're saving audio & video using `SAVE_MEDIA=True` and whether you lower `MEDIA_MAX_SIZE=750mb`. - -Storage requirements can be reduced by using a compressed/deduplicated filesystem like ZFS/BTRFS, or by turning off extractors methods you don't need. **Don't store large collections on older filesystems like EXT3/FAT** as they may not be able to handle more than 50k directory entries in the `archive/` folder. - -**Try to keep the `index.sqlite3` file on local drive (not a network mount)**, and ideally on an SSD for maximum performance, however the `archive/` folder can be on a network mount or spinning HDD. +Disk usage can be reduced by using a compressed/deduplicated filesystem like ZFS/BTRFS, or by turning off extractors methods you don't need. **Don't store large collections on older filesystems like EXT3/FAT** as they may not be able to handle more than 50k directory entries in the `archive/` folder. **Try to keep the `index.sqlite3` file on local drive (not a network mount)** or SSD for maximum performance, however the `archive/` folder can be on a network mount or spinning HDD.