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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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2nd hand hard drive (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have brought a 5tb hard drive from cex and it has 45000hours of power on time. Is this likely to fail or can I use it for a few years? I use it for movies.

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

You're on the flatline of the bathtub cover between most likely failure early on or late in life. How long is that line? 1 second, 1 year, 10 years? Unknown.

Mantras:

Any storage device/media can fail at any time, for any reason, with or without notice.

BACKUP, BACKUP, BACKUP! Ideally at least two, with one set offsite physical or cloud.