{
  "id": 31460,
  "title": "Size of Uncompressed Data",
  "url": "/competitions/noaa-fisheries-steller-sea-lion-population-count/discussion/31460",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2017-04-11T15:23:30.888506500Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 2,
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  "content": "<p>I have started the download and want to minimize nasty surprises in two days time. So...</p>\n\n<p>Is the large uncompressed data size also about 95GB? I assume that most of the data is jpg and that it won't compress much more, but confirmation would help me sleep.</p>\n\n<p>If so, will I need a minimum of 200GB free disk space (100GB for the compressed and 100GB for the uncompressed) for me to decompress the data?</p>\n\n<p>Not downloaded anything quite this BIG, before.</p>",
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      "id": "174467",
      "postDate": "04/11/2017 15:23:30",
      "content": "<p>I have started the download and want to minimize nasty surprises in two days time. So...</p>\n\n<p>Is the large uncompressed data size also about 95GB? I assume that most of the data is jpg and that it won't compress much more, but confirmation would help me sleep.</p>\n\n<p>If so, will I need a minimum of 200GB free disk space (100GB for the compressed and 100GB for the uncompressed) for me to decompress the data?</p>\n\n<p>Not downloaded anything quite this BIG, before.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "I have started the download and want to minimize nasty surprises in two days time. So...\n\nIs the large uncompressed data size also about 95GB? I assume that most of the data is jpg and that it won't compress much more, but confirmation would help me sleep.\n\nIf so, will I need a minimum of 200GB free disk space (100GB for the compressed and 100GB for the uncompressed) for me to decompress the data?\n\nNot downloaded anything quite this BIG, before.",
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      "id": "174471",
      "postDate": "04/11/2017 15:53:37",
      "content": "<p>Yep, that's about right - I think unzipped was around 100GB or a little over. So for unzipping, 200GB space is needed for the period when you have both zipped and unzipped on disk. The torrent was good - I think it took around 12 hours over wifi for me. </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Yep, that's about right - I think unzipped was around 100GB or a little over. So for unzipping, 200GB space is needed for the period when you have both zipped and unzipped on disk. The torrent was good - I think it took around 12 hours over wifi for me.",
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    },
    {
      "id": "174532",
      "postDate": "04/11/2017 21:43:44",
      "content": "<p>Uncompressed Data: 95,8 GB : 102&nbsp;935&nbsp;826&nbsp;432B\nThe torrents can be used because for example I'm seeder all time with my max speed (only 2,5MB)</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Uncompressed Data: 95,8 GB : 102 935 826 432B\nThe torrents can be used because for example I'm seeder all time with my max speed (only 2,5MB)",
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 174471,
      "author_name": "darraghdog",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/11/2017 15:53:37",
      "content": "<p>Yep, that's about right - I think unzipped was around 100GB or a little over. So for unzipping, 200GB space is needed for the period when you have both zipped and unzipped on disk. The torrent was good - I think it took around 12 hours over wifi for me. </p>",
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    {
      "id": 174532,
      "author_name": "tmkiii",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "04/11/2017 21:43:44",
      "content": "<p>Uncompressed Data: 95,8 GB : 102&nbsp;935&nbsp;826&nbsp;432B\nThe torrents can be used because for example I'm seeder all time with my max speed (only 2,5MB)</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    }
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    "174467": "I have started the download and want to minimize nasty surprises in two days time. So...\n\nIs the large uncompressed data size also about 95GB? I assume that most of the data is jpg and that it won't compress much more, but confirmation would help me sleep.\n\nIf so, will I need a minimum of 200GB free disk space (100GB for the compressed and 100GB for the uncompressed) for me to decompress the data?\n\nNot downloaded anything quite this BIG, before.",
    "174471": "Yep, that's about right - I think unzipped was around 100GB or a little over. So for unzipping, 200GB space is needed for the period when you have both zipped and unzipped on disk. The torrent was good - I think it took around 12 hours over wifi for me.",
    "174532": "Uncompressed Data: 95,8 GB : 102 935 826 432B\nThe torrents can be used because for example I'm seeder all time with my max speed (only 2,5MB)"
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