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We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD (www.theverge.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@beehaw.org
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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Not your problem... until the hosting provider publishes a press release about some recent fire or flooding in the data center that "only impacted less than 1% of our customers"... and you turn out to be among them.

For "super important" stuff, I keep closer to 10 copies spread around in different places. Normal stuff is 321, and everything else is temporary.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    eh, I've never hit that issue but I also have a copy of everything locally.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    I have. Both server and backup lost, and all I got was a complimentary 1 free month. Not a fun time uploading everything again from the single local copy.

    Now something similar is going on with Google for Business, where they've switched from "unlimited storage" to "actually, $300/10TB/month". Like that's going to happen (there are $100/100TB/month bare metal out there), but now I have to decide what to delete, what to keep, and what to downgrade from 321, to "temporary" single copy.

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