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I remember when SDD would suffer from catastrophic failures and weren't considered for long term storage (even in pro-home solutions). Now we have people compl
by woliveirajr 7y ago
I remember when SDD would suffer from catastrophic failures and weren't considered for long term storage (even in pro-home solutions).
Now we have people complaining that HDD aren't reliable (but I suspect we still can recover data from the plates in almost all HDD kind of failure)
HDD, SDD, external HDD and some cloud: trying to have all these working together with redundancy is my next goal.
- golergka 7y agoFor my pro-home solution (audio production), Dropbox solves all my backup needs. All my work folders are in Dropbox, and if my hard drive explodes, at most I'd lose a dozen of minutes of work.
- Wowfunhappy 7y agoNow imagine if you were doing video production instead of audio production. You'd need to spend a fortune to store all that in Dropbox.
- losteric 7y agoBackblaze?
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- icebraining 7y agoApparently $720/year gets you an account for "as much as you need". Not cheap, but then again syncing isn't backing up.
- currysausage 7y agoIt solves all backup needs, until it doesn't. https://petapixel.com/2014/07/31/cautionary-tale-bug-dropbox-permanently-deleted-8000-photos/ https://petapixel.com/2014/07/31/cautionary-tale-bug-dropbox...
- gruez 7y agoFor this reason I don't consider sync services to be a "backup". Because both sides always want to "sync" with each other, it's way too easy for a fuckup on your local machine to wipe the remote copy, or the remote server to wipe your local copy.
- skookumchuck 7y agoHow long does it take to upload 10T to Dropbox, and download it?
- cm2187 7y agoWhat I don’t understand is why don’t all SSD have capacitors/power protection.
- wtallis 7y agoIt's simply not needed. A majority of PCs have battery backup, and everyone uses journalling filesystems. The risk of large-scale data loss from a power failure is much smaller than the typical consumer cares about, and power loss protection capacitors make a noticeable difference in BOM.
- imtringued 7y agoJournaling filesystems don't help when the SSD firmware corrupts itself from power loss.
- wtallis 7y agoSure, but SSD firmware corrupting itself from power loss is basically impossible, since the firmware is never modified during ordinary usage.
- blattimwind 7y ago> journalling filesystems Journalling only protects the filesystems own structures, not user data.
- wtallis 7y agoAnd that's all that consumers need to have protected. Preventing catastrophic data loss is adequate for consumers. Consumers don't need to ensure complete transactional consistency for writes that are in-flight at the time of an unexpected power loss; they are conditioned to expect minor loss or corruption of data that is actively being modified when power is lost. Having at most a few MB of data at risk during the rare slices of time where a consumer PC is actively writing to the disk is an acceptable risk for these use cases.