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My 8 year old HDD died
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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.
I have two internal SSDs in both my PC and in my Laptop.
One SSD is used for OS and files as normal. The other is used for automatic versioned backups of user files (not the OS) on the first SSD, every time I boot.
I also have two multibay USB DAS. Mergerfs and snapraid. One DAS is used mainly for media file storage and for backups of important folders on my PC and Laptop, as well as backups of my phone (mostly photos) and tablet. The other DAS is used mainly for backups of the other DAS.