Data Hoarder

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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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Are used hard drives ok? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you don’t have the money for the most amount of terabytes there is but you can find it in your budget if you buy it pre-owned.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I’d say have backups, but then, I’d say have backups anyway. The bathtub curve is real.

More to the point: I don’t get why people can spend so much money on giant pools of storage and then get uptight when told they should get dedicated backup devices.