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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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Does a hard drive like this need special software to work with a Mac/ PC? (alien.top)

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Alternatively, does anyone have a better/ cheaper suggestion for an 8TB drive?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Funny enough I bought a SATA drive from an e-tailer new as a spare and when I went to open it up months later realized that they had mistakenly shipped me a SAS drive of the same capacity (18TB). So it’s well beyond the return / exchange period despite the shipping error. I have equipment to run it but it kind of threw a fork in my plans because I was going to get rid of said equipment. All for that $300 spare drive.