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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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That's somehow fine, as there is a small seed of a real issue (although it's on the power supply side not on the drive side, and it's easy to understand and to contain) but to have people scaring themselves on Internet about 3.5" drives with USB directly on the PCB, even if nobody ever has seen one in the whole history of the universe, but you know just in case, like they would be appearing like some mutating viruses, and even more PEOPLE TRICKING THEMSELVES after reading all this fear mongering that "I really really feel like I've gotten one before" it's absolutely next level.