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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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What's the world's Loudest EIDE/PATA 3.5" HDD? (alien.top)

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I grew up on the mid-1990s WD Caviar HDDs, and I'm wondering if there's anything that's louder at boot and data access.

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

Those quantum bigfoot 5.25" drives were pretty damn good with feedback. pide/pata were still quiet compared to some of the 2.1gb 50pin scsi disks I ran for a bit in some prosignia 300s.