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I have HDDs running longer than most Google projects do. So that point is really moot.
by prox 5y ago
I have HDDs running longer than most Google projects do. So that point is really moot.
- whymauri 5y agoDitto. And when I felt it was near end-of-life, I just moved it over to a more stable SSD. I'm honestly thinking I'm going to have to backup my entire G-Drive externally and wipe it (for the security of my Google account). I mean, who knows what will trigger the deletion of your Google account these days... I guess the storage I pay for is just for e-mails.
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoIncidentally, I’ve had more SSDs fail - or misbehave - on me than spinning-rust drives now. And I don’t just mean cheap SSDs either, but an Intel Optane 905p I own results in hundreds of PCI Express bus errors every minute when plugged-in to any ASUS motherboard I own, while a SATA Intel 530 woke-up one day completely unreadable. And throw-in a couple of Samsung SSD failures too. It’s enough to make me anxious between backups: at least with spinning rust-drives we can transplant the platters and controllers (separately, even!) while SSD hardware recovery is almost unheard of.
- andrekandre 5y agothats interesting, its been the exact opposite for me... though the ssds i use are for backup and arent used very often for writing... i wonder if that makes a difference?
- genewitch 5y agoI keep SSDs less than half full and use trim, paranoiacly. Because of this I use an SSD for a year or two before I get a larger one, or an additional one (software and game assets keep getting larger!). I've never had even the cheapest mwave or microcenter special ssd die. Sata or nvme m.2, nothing. I also haven't had a spindle die in 15 years, ever since I started letting them sleep and using UPS to smooth out power. That noise you hear is me knocking on wood pretty frantically.
- prox 5y agoSounds like a plan, it’s actually cheaper in a sense. Today I saw my webhost had nextcloud one-click installs, that might be useful for those files you want accessible everywhere. I already pay for the space, so it doesn’t cost me extra.
- theodric 5y ago>assuming the emails you're sent won't also eventually result in the locking and banning of your Google account
- DaiPlusPlus 5y agoTry explaining RAID (not just RAID0/1, but RAID6 and RAID10) to an average consumer and expect them to maintain their own NAS - that’s a bit too much.
- prox 5y agoI have vanilla HDDs who do their job nicely for years now. The most important files are duplicated across a few HDDs.
- Ekaros 5y agoRAID is overkill and bad designs can cause more issues than it saves. Two or more external-DDs, copied regularly per how much they are willing to spend time and lose data. One stored in some other place if possible.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoA Synology NAS with RAID1 and a few terabytes is $400 to $500 including taxes. Seems pretty cheap for not having to back it up regularly. Although, the second location risk would remain.
- randomhodler84 5y agoUntil you get ransomed: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/synology-warns-of-malware-infecting-nas-devices-with-ransomware/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/synology-warn... You really want offline backups. Never recommend “not having to back it up regularly”.
- lotsofpulp 5y agoYes, I guess there is no easy way out.
- 20after4 5y agothe thing is, if you back up bad data to a RAID1, the mirroring isn't going to save you - you just wrote the bad data to both copies. RAID is not a substitute for rotating backups.