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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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Buy large capacity off the shelf backup drive or assemble one myself? (alien.top)

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

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I'm going to be setting up my first NAS soon and want to be sure that I have a backup solution in place as well. I'd like to store all of my files locally rather than using a cloud service for backups. I could either buy a premade backup drive (WD Elements, Seagate Expansion, etc.) or a large hard disk and an enclosure and assemble one myself. Can those of you with experience in this area please guide me? I'd appreciate learning about the pros and cons from expert data hoarders :) Thank you!

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

I don't think it matters that much. It's more important to have several backup copies and follow the 3-2-1 rule: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/. For backups, I would just go with a cheaper option.