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How do you backup your motionless piles of sand, then? /joke Perhaps all the data you care is on the cloud, but HDDs are still important for backups. Although
by segfaultbuserr 7y ago
How do you backup your motionless piles of sand, then? /joke
Perhaps all the data you care is on the cloud, but HDDs are still important for backups. Although it's the most acceptable scenario to use an inferior SMR disk. The real issue of SMR is RAID/servers, which, of course, is what the cloud is made of...
- votepaunchy 7y agoIf the cloud ever used RAID, the switch to erasure coding happened a long time ago. With Zoned Storage for SSD and HA-SMR for HDD we are Further seeing adoption of these novel technologies in the cloud.
- speedgoose 7y agoI do my backups in the cloud, which uses hard drives for slow storage but I couldn't care less about it. The terrible reliability and performances are not my problem anymore.
- jennyyang 7y agoWhat if you lose your job and can't afford to keep paying the monthly fees, or there is corruption in your backup? You won't know until you perform a disaster recovery.
- speedgoose 7y agoIf I lose my job I get notified in advance and then I get unemployment benefits for years. It's more than enough time to find a new job before I don't have enough savings to justify cloud storage costs. What if you connect your hard-drive and the data is corrupted or the drive isn't spinning? That did happen to me. I rather have people replacing the hard drives for me. Uploading corrupted backups to the cloud is the same than saving corrupted backups locally.
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- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago> Perhaps all the data you care is on the cloud, but HDDs are still important for backups. Or any bulk data storage, really.
- yellowapple 7y agoThere's still tape, or optical disks, or other SSDs / flash media. All have their drawbacks, but so do HDDs.