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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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I just got 8tb drives for $35 each on ebay. Was that a good deal? (alien.top)

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It was for 5 of them. They were ultrastar drives.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Check that they're actually 8tb. Usually when drives that cheap are opened up, it's USB sticks that have custom firmware to pretend to have 8tb, and you'll really only have something like 8gb. It'll overwrite the data as you keep writing to it, so you may not notice it until a while from now. Even if they feel heavy. Some of them have weights added to throw you off. Take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/9wimlo/when_you_buy_a_cheap_external_ssd_from_china/

(Sorry for the reddit link, but that's where the images are)