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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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Better to build a pc with multiple hard drives or buy a pc then add hard drives? Purpose strictly for data storage/backup. (alien.top)

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Im leaning more toward internal hard drives for storage since the external ones don't seem to last too long (good thing ive backed up). Anyway, im curious if its better to build a simple pc with 1 main and 4 added drives for storage or buy a prebuilt pc and add 4 backup drives. The drives will be 1tb each. Not looking for anything fancy, just simple but fast enough for reasonable data transfer. Thanks

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

if you're building a PC, then get a motherboard that has lots of m.2 slots that fits what you need as well as sata slots.

You don't have to fill them up right away.