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this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
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If you're looking for data stability, look at how business does it. You can never guarantee reliability, so opt for redundancy instead.
Rather than just a single disk, Get 2 in RAID1 and replace a disk whenever it fails.
RAID sounds complicated, but it's actually pretty simple to set up. Most modern motherboards have support for it nowadays, you just add the 2 new disks in the BIOS and it will pool them together.