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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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Are used hard drives ok? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If you don’t have the money for the most amount of terabytes there is but you can find it in your budget if you buy it pre-owned.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All my hdd's I got secondhand, way cheaper and they all come with 2 year warrenty from cex.

That said, I do use them for cold storage mainly, so most of the time theyre sat on a shelf and powered up every few months, only lost one from about 25 drives in the last 5 years Ive been buying them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

same here, rocking 4x8tb exos, all disks spinning 24/7, no issues for 3 months so far, and the warranty is there