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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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16TB of data on a 36TB server, nothing backed up. Advice? (alien.top)

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I'm running a plex server on a Windows 10 PC and I'm at the point where I'd like to protect myself from potential data loss. I'm using 16TB out of 36TB total.

I currently store my data on a mixture of SSDs and HDDs using Drivepool. One feature of Drivepool is that it will email me when a drive is removed. I'm very familiar with this because one of the SSDs is temperamental. It's fine for weeks/months, then disconnects randomly. Slide out the tray and slide it back it, and it works again. I would like to be in a position where one of my drives can fail/disconnect and can be addressed at my convenience while my server and its data remain accessible uninterrupted.

I can add more details regarding my setup if needed. There are definitely things I would do differently the second time around, but I'm not necessarily looking to start fresh right now. I do have a singular unused M.2 slot on the motherboard. I might want to add an NVME ssd in the future, then install Unraid OS or a Linux variant.

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Also, thoughts on moving a drivepool from one OS to another on the same system?

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

Buy the cheapest $/TB drives you can find (still from reputable places). Give them a 1 or 2 full write cycles to check, especially when 2nd hand. And copy all the data to them. It is the easiest and cheapest solution for media or large picture libraries.

At least you have an offline copy that way. If possible store it also in a seperate building.

For documents and my very best pictures, I use OneDrive.