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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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Looking for a multi bay enclosure that will run smoothly while missing drives. (alien.top)

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

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Currently upgrading a very janky DIY media server with more storage and am running out of usb ports. I would like to buy a large external drive enclosure but have been reading about problems running certain enclosures while not fully populated. Ideally I would like to get a 5 bay enclosure and install one drive in it, with the option to add more as my needs increase. Has anyone had any experience with a similar situation? Or am I just going to have to save and get everything at once?

Thanks.

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

Awesome, that was on the upper end of my budget but glad to hear it will work for my use case. Time to store some more 4k videos!

Thanks for your help.