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I've had a drive from every major manufacturer fail at some point. Brands don't matter, backups do. Buy hard drives in pairs and put an item on your calendar to

I've had a drive from every major manufacturer fail at some point. Brands don't matter, backups do. Buy hard drives in pairs and put an item on your calendar to pop the other one in once a month, sync it, and put it back in a fire-resistant safe.

votepaunchy 8y ago
> Buy hard drives in pairs and put an item on your calendar to pop the other one in once a month, sync it, and put it back in a fire-resistant safe. Alternatively, buy one hard drive and keep a copy in Amazon Glacier Deep Archive for $1/TB-month.
- anoncoward111 8y ago
  And then wait weeks and pay real money to pull it all back if you have 8TB :)
  - kalleboo 8y ago
    Yeah it's something like $700 to retrieve 8 TB
    - anoncoward111 8y ago
      Meanwhile for highly redundant tape cartridges, you can store that amount for maybe $100-200, but the device to read it back is about 10x more expensive used unless I am just struggling the find the real deals :/
    - votepaunchy 8y ago
      AWS Lighsail can transfer 1 TB from S3 for $5. And no fear of losing a second drive while you perform a network synchronization.