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For reference, I use FLAC instead of MP3. Your collection may be larger, but my ~12,000 FLAC files take less than 500GB. So I'd say it's a question of value: Yo
by 29083011397778 5y ago
For reference, I use FLAC instead of MP3. Your collection may be larger, but my ~12,000 FLAC files take less than 500GB. So I'd say it's a question of value: You could have redundant copies of your music for ~$300 CAD with a pair of Samsung T5 SSDs, or you could someday lose every email, contact, photo, document, Youtube playlist, and MP3 you use Google for.
I'm not saying it's likely, but it only has to be a one-in-100-million chance for it to hit a couple Google users.
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- forgingahead 5y agoHow redundant are SSDs actually? I've been doing offline backups, but the OCD kicks in and I start wondering how many I should actually have and how often I should replace them...
- entangledqubit 5y agoI think the general consensus is that you shouldn't just leave them on a shelf for more than a year and that there is some temperature dependency in there. If you really care about the data, two+ backups stored in different places is completely reasonable. Note that "places" is not limited by physical as trying to maintain independent dependency chains (e.g. a durable storage provider may decide to cut off account access so maybe a second independent storage provider using a different credit card makes sense) Your OCD may also be helped a bit by having some way to verify you backups (e.g. use ZFS and scrub regularly and/or separate hash manifests of the files).