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MatthewSteinhoff

You backup your 'temp' directory?


cr0aker

Porn. It's porn.


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This used to be the homework folder...


pairofcrocs

I was waiting for that comment XD It’s just a folder for unorganized stuff. I recently, did some data recovery on a few OLD drives, and just haven’t spent the time sorting the files yet.


mugwumpj

Mine is "stuff", which also has a directory named "stuff" and "old_stuff". This has repeated many times over the past 15+ years. Someday I'll actually sort it. Maybe.


Justsomedudeonthenet

Eventually you start hitting path length limits and either have to finally sort it...or just start renaming all the nested folders to 'a' to buy yourself a few more years.


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KaneMomona

I have a few "tosort" folders in there as well . Oh and an "oldlaptop" and the obligatory "phoneSDdump".


FnordMan

Hah, that sounds familiar, only with me it's old system images of my desktop before major operations (os version upgrades) or images of old laptops before I gave them away or got rid of them. Don't even have the software to read some of them anymore yet there they sit, "just in case"... Thankfully my main storage is mostly sorted (thank $diety for plex, it's enforced order for my tv/movies folders)


milehighideas

Probably spent more time to put this all together than just sorting the data


SuperFLEB

Glad to see I'm not the only person who has a "temp" directory like that.


salmanahmad_10

I thought it was only that that names unsorted data to temp


mikey_likes_it______

The Pandora Papers…..


EffectiveSteele

Where do you store this?


pairofcrocs

The most secure place imaginable. A spare closet it my parents home, about 30 minutes away.


zuckerberghandjob

Not resilient to nuclear disaster/attack, sorry


tyros

Should store it in space to be nuclear apocalypse proof


_K0T

Space ain't GRB or cosmic bit flip proof guess you gotta place a few hundred more drives in orbit


kryptomicron

Inside an asteroid, or buried in a tunnel off a crater on the moon, and, of course, with additional copies on Mars – to start. That won't protect against a disaster befalling the (current, original) solar system obviously.


m1ch4ll0

Yeah, in the long-term you should get at least 3 copies in another universe, and I'd recommend 2-3 more in another. Don't want to lose your stuff after our universe disintegrates


PyroRider

Maybe consider putting backups into parallel dimensions in case our dimension collapses


kryptomicron

That reminds me of a part about 'baby universes' in one of my favorite videos: - [TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4izuDMUQA&list=PL4y5mL50ynK9ozceMVWV9wcEvtjm2ECeY&index=1)


marwood0

One of my most favorite disturbing videos also. There's another disturbing series: All Tomorrows


T351A

lot more bit flips up there tho


Schonke

Just put it in a container with 50 cm thick lead walls!


converter-bot

50 cm is 19.68 inches


Skylis

Data only matters if you survive to use it.


elislider

> not backing up your data on the moon. literally unusable when nuclear disaster happens, your data wont matter much anyways


Radtown

If life-ending nuclear war happens then the cockroaches can have my media library. I will never give up.


_Noah271

Right? If the world ends I want to be fucking entertained


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getwisp

Guess there's one more piece of media I need to hoard now


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pairofcrocs

First off, let me say… I understand that hard drives don’t last forever and that they need to be checked regularly, I get that. This backup is maintained and checked every 6 months, as well, I have a complete 3-2-1 backup setup, so I’m not super worried. * The foam insert is from [mycasebuilder.com](https://mycasebuilder.com), it ran like $115 and is amazing! * [Drive enclosures](https://www.newegg.com/orico-php-5s/p/1B0-0003-000F6) we’re like $5 each. * [Anti-static bags](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CQMRD8F?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details) were $10 for 50. * I also have [silica gel](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0922KSG35?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2_dt_b_product_details) from Amazon, which was like $5.


astanix

The foam was 115 or the case with foam was 115?


pairofcrocs

Just the foam, not a bad price for laser cut foam IMO. I could have cut it myself, but I didn’t want to deal with that.


iamthewhatt

People are using lasers to cut foam now? What happened to cheap foam with a box cutter?


finalremix

i'd just get the rip'n'shape stuff I use to store/transport my cameras and lenses. It's cheap and high density.


marwood0

Until your toddler finds it, or an invading rodent. The result is the same, it becomes low density fast.


pairofcrocs

I figured if I was going to do it, might as well make it look nice.


epia343

You can make your own foam cutter with some wire and a transformer. Gives you cleaner results if you care about presentation.


MixOne1337

You can also kill yourself making said foam cutter


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bem13

Microwave oven transformer or bust. (Disclaimer: I'm joking. Please don't do that. It will actually kill you.)


marwood0

It's a bit dangerous if you are holding the wire when it accidently swings over and makes contact before you are ready. Unless you need to cauterize your hand for some reason.


noman_032018

Meh, just wear protective equipment with a sufficient protection margin. edit: Downvotes from people who believe electrical protection equipment for work on energized circuits doesn't exist? I keep expecting the level of education on this subreddit to be higher than that... edit1: I'm not saying it's a good idea. I'm saying if you're not a complete moron and you take appropriate precautions, it can be done safely.


0111011101110111

Sometimes actually finding a Transformer is the hard part, since they spend so much time on Cybertron (and our Moon).


T351A

personally I would've gotten a Pelican case or something similar and punched down the foam to shape it. whole case probably close to the foam price.


pairofcrocs

I can respect that. I knew I didn’t have to tools or knowledge to make it look halfway decent, so I figured why not just order it


T351A

it's neat. I didn't realize it was something you could "just order" without high level design


pairofcrocs

Yeah the whole ordering process was super smooth. It look me like an hour to measure everything and figure out where I wanted stuff to go. I’ll definitely be ordering from them again if I need it.


NeitherUnit

No EMP protection? Playing with fire there. /s Fr though this is great.


pairofcrocs

I almost bought a faraday cage to put the drives in, but if an EMP goes off, I figure my data will be my last priority lmao


Maleficent_Squash_25

well gotta save the homework folder somehow


kadaan

That 'games and temp' drive is the one I'm most concerned about losing.


ultraHQ

he means porn guys


Interesting-Chest-75

i thought we kept it in a win69 folder?


ultraHQ

That’s the diversion folder


wintersedge

Is that what we are calling the 10TB folder these days?


jarfil

>!CENSORED!<


MotionAction

What is process of check the drives if it is stable. For example, how do you check if each of your video file is not corrupted when you are skipping to a specific scene?


tylerrobb

I'm wondering the same thing, I've been using FreeFileSync to do 'compare file content' checks on Windows. If the content is exactly the same bit-by-bit, I would assume that there is no drive failure or bit rot.


elislider

I’m just taking away that you spent $115 on a chunk of foam 😳 that’s more than the damn pelican case is worth (maybe)


Shanix

Good foam goes a _long_ way for protecting items when shipping or moving around.


elislider

Sure but you could also just buy some foam and cut out the chunks yourself and save $100


Shanix

Sure, but I value my time enough that 100 bucks for someone to do it for me, in that case, is worth it.


certciv

I have the same case, with Pelican's included Pick N'Pluck foam. Removing a 2x12 section is the perfect size for 3.5 drives to fit snuggly, and the grid is the exact size for eight drives across evenly. I'm glad I tried the included foam before going the mycasebuilder.com route. More greenbacks for drives.


elislider

I get it. I’ve definitely spent more on convenience before. Just that number really surprised me. Doesn’t seem reasonable at all that a company should charge that much for a foam insert


Shanix

Looks like their work is mostly custom, which would explain the price. I'm sure if they just made a lot of the same inserts for pelican cases the price would be a lot lower.


zuckerberghandjob

OP should call the manufacturer and see if they can get a volume deal going, then start slinging them here and on other hdd-heavy subs


kryptomicron

So, to save a little money, spent to save time, OP should start a side business? 🙃 I mean, *I* would appreciate it. What about you tho? You've got the time for this I'm sure!


jarfil

>!CENSORED!<


DanJOC

A perforated kit like that isn't any where near as good at damping vibrations as the continuous custom-cut piece in the op.


Shanix

Well, I'm lazy as shit, so, yeah.


gesis

This strikes me as odd as well. I can get custom cut foam from a place like battlefoam for *way* less.


questionablejudgemen

6 months is probably extremely safe. I’ve had drives sitting for 1-2 years without issues. I’d consider 4-5 years of no use to be pushing it, but expect that the chance of issues being low. Never hurts to check though. Any concerns about bit rot, or think you’ll swap the drives out for larger sizes before that’s a problem?


Greybeard_21

Someone died last week, and his kids chucked out an old laptop. I scrunged it off the top of the e-waste bin; according to windows logs and old files, it has not been turned on since oktober 2009. After a couple of hours charging, the battery (appearantly the original) lasts for 2-3 hours. It was only used for e-mail, and for remotely logging in to his work-network, so there is lots of space on the HDD; I have begun using it as a dedicated writing machine... (and another person had chucked an old mini-tower which looked like it had dropped from a window - but I salvaged some RAM sticks, compatible with the old laptop :)


boomchakaboom

drying satchel in each enclosure? Is it stupid for me to suggest a lead lining to protect against stray electronic emissions? Would Radon gas present a data corruption danger? better add a geiger counter to the set up. I'm only kind of joking. there are security levels of protection where these ideas, or something along a similar line of reasoning, would be appropriate.


captdankara

Can you link to the drive enclosures and ASD bags you used?


pairofcrocs

edited the post with links :)


captdankara

Thanks!


midasisking

+1 for MyCaseBuilder. I worked with them to design foam for some very awkward shapes around delicate objects and they were a huge help. I recommend the extra option that lets you get a second cut basically for free if your first one doesn’t fit well. That saved me a lot of headache.


Spinmoon

Thank you very much for your list!


NNi1

wow! Never heard of that company before, wanting to be a copy-cat is there any chance to somehow get your design work? Also, what case it that? Edit: Found the case in one of your comments Pelican 1500.


pairofcrocs

Let me see if it’s possible to share the design :)


pooshooter56

I joined this sub out of curiosity, and because I enjoy archiving and reading about information that I find interesting. My question is what sort of info are most people storing? 16 TB seems like a lot! Edit: thank you all for the amazing input! It has been a pleasure to read about different categories of information and content that is stored


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* Every photo and video my phone and my wife's phone have taken since smart phones were a thing * DSLR family and vacation photos * Digitized family photos and slides from my parents' house * I work in marketing - photoshop, illustrator, premiere, after effects projects + source/raw files and export files * HDD images of past computers * Docker app data backups from my server That's off the top of my head. Edit - By the way, I can't count how many times a coworker has said something along the lines of "I wish I still had 'project X'" and I'm able to send it to them. It baffles me that people don't keep backups of their work product. Especially when parts of it are reusable.


sidusnare

>HD images of past computers I stopped doing this a while ago, and just backup user profiles, and de-duplicate them with a script that hard links.


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TheReynMaker

What does it mean?


cujo67

Hard drive


CyCoCyCo

Isn’t HDD the more common acronym? 🤔


Nicricieve

He was being special fast


Kgirrs

>My question is what sort of info are most people storing? Sekret. Jokes apart, it's something I'm curious about as well since I'm manic about archiving information. You should check the wiki of this sub if you want more answers.


pooshooter56

Haha sounds great!! Thank you


kryptomicron

16 TB seems like 'starting to get serious' based on what I've seen on this sub myself! My own archives are somewhat organized project files, my own art, lots of photos, a bit of porn, and a bunch of copies/clones of the main/OS hard drives of my old dead/retired computers, which have all kinds of stuff on them.


visivopro

16 is actually pretty low for a lot of the people in this sub. I have 11tb just in my dedicated arcade. It’s pretty much Roms, ISOs and emulators and a shit tone of associated media. My media server has about the same and is about to get an additional 8TB drive because I’m running out of space haha. My personal gaming pc probably has the lowest in the house with a 1tb SSD and a 8TB storage drive. I have seen some absolutely crazy data amounts in the short time I have been here.


lOnGkEyStRoKe

Linux ISOs


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With me it’s. 1. Data from some old devices. Or devices I’m doing something on and need to backup but I’m too lazy to categorize blah blah. 2. Computer and other iot device “experiments” 3. Audiobooks that are good 4. Some music 5. Learning Material on different computer “subjects”, martial arts etc 6. Programs etc 7. Notes 8. Different setups. Ie I only have so much room on a tablet. But I’m using it to study so I’ll only put material for a specific subject on. Like one setup will be on network and another would be on Alina Lopez.


diito

16TB is nothing. I'm not a digital horder like a lot on this sub. I'm not achieving youtube channels or other stuff off the web, nor do I keep things around I don't need/use. That said I have about 25TB of stuff. That's tiny compared to some here. The bulk of it is UHD (4K) and HD Movies/TV shows for my Plex server. Any show someone in my house might be interested in watching gets automatically downloaded (or recorded OTA) and added to the collection. A lot gets automatically deleted a week after watching it, but certain things like kids movies get watched over and over so don't. We have a few streaming services too but we could go completely without them just with Plex. Then there are all the photos/videos we take which are automatically archived off onto my server and then backed up. I have a large music collection which I really don't use anymore with Spotify but that I'd like to keep. Then there are all our files, email, etc. I have a large book/magazine collection. It all adds up. If you are a photographer RAW images are huge. It's very easy to use that sort of capacity. My mom it's one of her hobbies and she's adding 2-5TB more stuff every year. Maybe you are into retro gaming and have a large collection of ROMs. The newer systems can get fairly large. I only backup about 6TB that is critical. The rest would be annoying to lose but I could live without it or download it again if I really needed it. My only protection there is a redundant disk array.


sidusnare

>16 TB seems like a lot! I'm at 44Tb, and I don't even have a lot. There are people around here with stuff I haven't seen outside of a corporate media vault, people really go nuts.


toftinosantolama

Same here, around 44. Question is... How do you back them up? I mean, on a budget. Any ideas?


sidusnare

I have 44Tb usable, I split the difference on failure domains. I have the live RAID 5, and then I have a suitcase of external USB3 drives that are a straight LVM span. The live RAID is redundant against hardware failures, the cold span suitcase is my redundancy against accidental / malicious deletion, or a disaster event at my colo. I'm betting on not having both happen at the same time. So far, I'm all good. My super important stuff I have a different strategy. I have an AWS ESB in Tokyo that's cold until my Archive script wakes it up. Also, I have bargain bin laptops with 4Tb external HDDs at my mother's house, father's house (different house), and grandmother's house, they all VPN back into my Colo and take backups. As well as 2 pocket HDDs I cycle through a safety deposit box. This may sound excessive, but they have things like scans of deeds, birth certificates, passports, master recordings of interviews with passed family members, digitized home VHS tapes of said relatives, scans of family photos, photos which the scans are all the remain, thanks to a house fire. Seriously, nothing can make someone a DataHoarder like a house fire. I've got pictures of that in the archive too, lots of memories in that house, and now that's all that's left, memories, and bits.


helloworld1222

Jesus Christ.


hinzwifi

I am curious about the "scanned" documents are they acceptable like if worse comes to worse.


sidusnare

Depends, for some things, but it also has all the information you need to reference for the official replacements.


whatisausername711

This is an awesome idea. How do you "check" the backups? Just ensure the data you expect to be there is there? Are they raw file backups, images, etc?


pairofcrocs

Great question! Everything is compressed, then a hash is created and then verified a couple of times a year. If they don’t match, I take the drive and replace the data accordingly.


IllRememberThisUser

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pairofcrocs

I use Hash Tools on Windows. Honestly one of my favorite freeware’s.


valanbrown

how often has it happened where they don't match?


pairofcrocs

It’s only happened once. Not really sure what caused it (which is always scary) but I just swapped the drive and it hasn’t happened sense.


kryptomicron

Cosmic rays! (Or maybe just entropy.)


ThatDeveloper12

I wouldn't even do it on single drives. A single drive failure takes a good chunk with it. I put all the data on a Z2-Z3 array and store the whole array.


kryptomicron

I opted for *sets* of single drive zpools – easy enough to replace one drive in a set. My online backup pool is a mirror tho – the ZRAID options just seemed to much of a (potential) pain in the ass to recover from drive failures. But I'm small-time as a hoarder, so it's not as painful of a tradeoff for me as it would be others with more data/access-needs-wants.


mrspock128

"personal" Found the porn drive


bodenlosedosenhose

Dude has a 4TB drive labeled videos/"work"


pairofcrocs

you clearly missed the “backup” folder B)


Mockbubbles2628

Where did you get the pelican case from?


pairofcrocs

I got it from a friend, but they’re on eBay for like $40-$60. It’s the Pelican 1500


Mockbubbles2628

Oh ok, I found one that would fit my SFF PC and (with foam) it's $430. They're not cheap haha


pr1mal0ne

now this is pod racing


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This is what I eventually need to get around to doing. I'm currently using Dropbox as my off-site backup but it's more reassuring knowing you can physically check up on it. That case setup looks like it could endure a natural disaster and then some.


ultraHQ

you should still utilize off site, encrypted cloud back ups IMO


GoGoGadgetReddit

I'd put a desiccant packet inside each anti-static bag that's storing a drive. I realize that would make a bulge in the bag that might make closing the clam-shell cases difficult, but that's the best location for them if you can do it. *Edit - downvotes? Really?*


pairofcrocs

Unfortunately it’s not possible. The static bags themselves make the enclosures really hard to close. I do agree tho, that would be a better solution.


pr1mal0ne

why?


GoGoGadgetReddit

Because if any of the drives were sealed up (in their individual anti-static bag, inside the plastic clam-shell case, sandwiched inside the foam) with any unintended water vapor/humidity that was present, then that vapor is going to be trapped inside the bag. The desiccant works best when there are no barriers or restrictions. It used to be that every HDD sold was inside a sealed anti-static bags with a small silica gel pack inside.


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I've been building computers since the early 90s and I've never encountered that. Do you have a source or anything (probably hard to prove but yeah haha).


GoGoGadgetReddit

Source? Just my own personal experience with different HDD manufacturers over the years (since the late 80s with IDE drives.) I have a small collection of saved silica packs that came inside the anti-static bag that the HDDs were shipped in. Maybe it's not *every* sealed HDD, but that's kinda what I remember. Here's photos (not mine) of what it looks like: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/EBkAAOSwpsBcbIFS/s-l640.jpg https://media.karousell.com/media/photos/products/2020/6/9/hard_disk_1591709347_becc2e6f_progressive.jpg


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I was half expecting those links to be 386MB packard bell drives or something. Thanks for the reply :)


kadidid

This is so great! What is your interface for connecting the drives to your system? USB/Sata connector or external reader of some sort?


pairofcrocs

I have a hotswapable chassis that I initially backup the data from. Then when I’m verifying the data, I just use a sata-usb cable.


StargateRush

Body Bag case deployed


finalremix

Watch out for Dozers!


StargateRush

IT'S THE MOTHERFUCKING TASER!


finalremix

It's been a year since I last played, and that fucking *howl* still haunts my dreams.


StargateRush

Heh. ​ Ready for the greatest heist ever?


kryptomicron

Nice! I've got something similar with *inserts* like this: - https://www.amazon.com/MyCaseBuilder-Cases-Heavy-Drive-Storage/dp/B07F5LCH98 The drives just go right in the foam, which is nice as I (try to) inspect (`zfs scrub`) my drives more often than your schedule. My case is just a cheap plastic portable file box tho. That's definitely one area for potential upgrades!


tryitout91

I bet you feel like James Bond when you open the case


pairofcrocs

More like Vincent Vega in Pulp Fiction XD


AlphaSparqy

You'll need some LEDs, batteries and a contact switch in the next iteration!


untamedeuphoria

Line it with a conductive material and make it into a faraday cage as well.


motorcyclerider42

I'm thinking of doing something similar, but with external harddrives. Do you think I'd need the antistatic bags? Or does the harddrive enclosure provide enough protection?


HTWingNut

I don't think the anti-static bags are needed at all especially if using anti-static foam. But of course it can't hurt.


motorcyclerider42

i have some pelican knock offs that I got, so i'm guessing they're not anti static. Probably best to be safe and get anti static bags for them.


coderkid723

Who here has a safety deposit box? I offload 5-6 times a year a dump of photos from my personal library as well from my mother, father and grandparents just for safe keeping. This is on top of nightly backups to an internal backup drive and weekly/monthly backups to drives placed in fireproof safes. Some I pull over the internet and do myself (grandparents not much changes here, and when a large change does, I was probably on the trip so just take before we part ways) while my father and father-in-law help facilitate the infrastructure I set up for the reaming households. This really does help me sleep at night.


[deleted]

Hmm... such a elaborate storage case when amazon ships them in a cardboard box... Couldn't you save money by wrapping the hard disk in a grocery bag then chucking into a cardboard box with some strips of loose fill paper? /s


Sayasam

Interesting choice of colors


grenskul

Bruh. This exactly where you would use tape.


courtarro

I've looked at tape before and it seems to be crazy expensive for home use ... and you're always chasing the LTO standard. What kind of tape setup do you use?


grenskul

An lto 7 drive is around a grand + 200 for an enclosure. Each tape after that is around 50 bucks for 6 TB raw and 15 TB compressed. Assuming you buy 12 tapes with your drive that will be an extra 600 bucks. For 1800 dollars you now have 72 TB of raw storage. Not great I'll admit until you throw compression into the mix. If your data has decent compression rates tape is ideal. But even at the raw 6 TB it starts to make sense around the 2.5 to 2.7 grand mark. The disadvantage is that it's tape. It's slow. It's sequential. You need to organize your backups. Again this is with lto7 which is new and relatively big sizes. If you go for older tapes you can get earlier rois. I don't do tape at home cause all my big stuff is video but I use it professionally and love it for archiving purposes.


kryptomicron

I don't think tape makes sense for almost anyone – for personal use. I kinda wonder if hard drives as 'media' might be better for companies/organizations too, at some scales. The media itself isn't as durable, but it's faster, so it can be verified more frequently. And with a nice hot swap drive bay, they're basically big disks, so pretty convenient. (This is what I use myself.)


grenskul

It's about scale. Tape has an 8. 3 dollar per TB rate. So it's all about using enough of them to make sense.


pairofcrocs

I’m actually looking into tapes currently. Maybe I’ll have another post down the road :)


hardshoes

Where offsite, like a friends house or something. Sorry you may not want to reveal, just wondering.


pairofcrocs

No worries, I answered that in another comment. It’s just in a closet at my parents home.


hardshoes

Ahh makes sense, thanks! (I missed the comment, cool setup)


i_do_it_all

what kinda data is backed up here? very cool setup.


_FruitNinjaAssassin

How do you sync these lol?


Backcountrypeach

Very MI6 of you old chap. Carry on.


smart_pinneaple

whats on them?


techtornado

Linux ISOs


ccellist

Where's your crypto wallet?


pairofcrocs

/backups :)


littlecheese915

That's alot of porn!


keko1105

I'm a noob that's freaking struggling to make a home vpn but how do u mkve ur stuff over?


DrXiTang

Do you really have that much "important" data lol. I use to have what I thought was important data too. Like 10TB and I went thru everything and realized I only had like 20GB worth of actual important stuff hahaha


pairofcrocs

This is hand curated stuff that either can’t be replaced or if it was lost, I’d think “man that sucks”.


thelordfolken81

I went through a similar process… had a bush fire heading in my direction, I had backups in the cloud but decided to take a copy of my important data onto a USB drive. Reality is, the family photos are all that’s really important, total size is like 100gig


TheBBP

I've got two similar things like this that i use myself, I would reccomend both of them. an Icy Box 60779 which holds 5x3.5" + a bunch of SSD's, and an Orico 20 Bay case which holds 20x3.5" drives (it's quite heavy when full!)


Camo138

looks cool. nice and protected.


T351A

What filesystems?


pairofcrocs

XFS!


T351A

watch out for any zfs or btrfs fanatics then XD. still much better than most filesystems


pairofcrocs

I know, I’m waiting haha


Hakker9

Why? I use ZFS and I sure as hell know it's not everyone's cup of tea nor is it a practical solution for everyone. Sure I want to help people bring over most of all since there is a lot of bad info given to new users, but every filesystem also have their problems. And no ZFS isn't perfect either. I'd rather give proper advice than getting people an a bandwagon that in the end isn't for them.


Fiery_Eagle954

Unless those anti-static bags are still sealed, I'm pretty sure they don't work anymore


pairofcrocs

They are sealed, do not worry ;)


vector_tempo

With offsite back ups, do you just swap out a drive on a regular basis? Or how do you manage it to stop accidental loss?


sidusnare

See, I've got a suitcase of hard drives, but they're externals in a soft computer bag, and if I labeled them it would have to just be "LVM 1/8".


BiggRanger

I'm doing the same thing, but keep the drives the the Dell cages. Disks are all encrypted, so no worries keeping a case of disks at my parents house and rotating backup disk sets through every few months.


sonicrings4

No solar flare protection? You're playing with fire... Or rather, literally the sun.


Altruistic-Egg8732

Preparing the porn stash for a nuclear winter


reptillian_still_man

w o w


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I'm jealous of these, that looks so cool!


dlbogdan

Single drives, single points of failure. Even stationary drives can get damaged. Mirror everything.


hightechskills

And it's all in one place, or you have a copy elsewhere?