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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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How to label a Samsung Shield SSD? (alien.top)

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

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This is such a random and basic question, but I wonder if anyone can help.

I'm a videographer whose footage has been double backed up on HDDs for the past 8 years. I label each individual drive by taping a piece of paper to it which helps me identify it at a glance - (1-A, 1-B, 2-A, 2-B, etc)

Now I've bought a couple of SAMSUNG T7 Shield 4TB SSD's as they're currently on sale and infinitely better than my old cheap drives.

The problem is the Shields have this rubber coating to keep them rugged, but I can't find a way to label them. Tape and stickers slide right off. I even tried writing with a white out pen and it also doesn't hold to the surface lol. Anyone have any creative ideas?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Duct tape and a sharpie maybe?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Duct tape to the rescue! It worked. Thanks.