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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). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Good source for hard-drive in France? (lemmy.mariusdavid.fr)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I plan to start working on my small setup for personal use. While I'm already pretty on certain on what I'll use on the software side (2 different server with CEPH in network, with an erasure coding (k=2 and k+m=4))

I plan to start with 4 4TiB HDD (plus maybe a small SSD for cache). I already have two laptops with broken screen laying around, and would like, to minimize initial investement, reuse them, and just them into the USB's connection (and connect them with a switch via Ethernet, plus maybe an overlay network if it work well)

I would like to know if someone have recommandation for getting these hard drive? For tax avoidance reason, it is important for them to be internal HDD (as they are considerably less taxed than USB HDD for stupid reason)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

LDLC.com

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For tax avoidance reasons, amazon.de. Drives are cheaper over there because of the lack of private copy tax.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

B and H photography in New York? With their sales, I’ve found it cheaper to order from the other side of the world than to buy locally.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

20 years ago you could buy cheap computer hardware in Paris at the Rue Montgallet (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rue_Montgallet#Informatique). Surcouf died but I'm sure the small shops are still there.

If you need to buy on the internet, LDLC is good for me (as ParadeDuGrotesque said). You can either ship to your home, or send the hardware to one of their physical shop.