Data Hoarder

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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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Was so excited for these eBay HGST drives… (alien.top)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Most of the time, drives from individual sellers, like here on r/homelabsales, package their products much better than places like Amazon. Last time I tried from them, and it was supposed to be their house refurbs, three drives came loose in one of those thin plastic bags with absolutely no type of padding anywhere to be seen. Those things were seriously torn up.

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