▲ 163 ▼ We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD (www.theverge.com) submitted 3 years ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@beehaw.org 87 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 3 years ago (1 child) If you have your data in one location, you have your data in zero locations. The 3 2 1 of data retention is important 3 copies of your data 2 local 1 off-site permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] 0110010001100010@beehaw.org 18 points 3 years ago (1 child) The 2 stands for on 2 different mediums. So HDD and tape for instance. Or HDD and SSD. Or SSD and DVDs. Whatever combo you choose that fits your needs. This (minimizes) the chance of loss of both. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Yaeger@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago I’d love to use tape but so far couldn’t bring myself to make the Jump cause of the upfront cost of the drive. Other than that it would sound great to have tapes of my digitized bluray collection so as if my nas should fail unrecoverably, I could simply setup a new one and copy back the data instead of having to digitize everything again. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 0110010001100010@beehaw.org 18 points 3 years ago (1 child) The 2 stands for on 2 different mediums. So HDD and tape for instance. Or HDD and SSD. Or SSD and DVDs. Whatever combo you choose that fits your needs. This (minimizes) the chance of loss of both. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Yaeger@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago I’d love to use tape but so far couldn’t bring myself to make the Jump cause of the upfront cost of the drive. Other than that it would sound great to have tapes of my digitized bluray collection so as if my nas should fail unrecoverably, I could simply setup a new one and copy back the data instead of having to digitize everything again. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Yaeger@feddit.de 1 point 3 years ago I’d love to use tape but so far couldn’t bring myself to make the Jump cause of the upfront cost of the drive. Other than that it would sound great to have tapes of my digitized bluray collection so as if my nas should fail unrecoverably, I could simply setup a new one and copy back the data instead of having to digitize everything again. permalink fedilink source parent