WhatAGoodDoggy

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It do be like that in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I recently tried to read a small number of 30+ year-old floppy disks containing code I wrote for the Atari ST and they're all unreadable. The disk surface is noticably degraded.

A mix of buying cheap disks, using non-standard formats to prioritise space over reliability, and waiting too long to duplicate the data.

Lesson learned.

Has anyone ever had drives that lasted for decades? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've got three drives in my NAS that are about 12yo

My 8 year old HDD died in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I've had one drive die on me and that was in a PC that was inside my house when it experienced a severe fire.

It lasted long enough for me to pull the data to another disk but on the next reboot it died.

These days I have a parity protected nas, a backup nas and and an off-site storage solution with my more essential data. Also cloud for photos.

Network upgrade! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think my first hub was in a transparent plastic case.

I reckon I might still have it, but alas I currently live 10000 miles away from the attic the hub might be in.

Couldn't afford the power bill anymore so I adapted and overcame. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Personally I wouldn't want to virtualize pfSense. It needs to be it's own piece of hardware so it isn't affected if you need to take the main server down.

WD drives. Do I really need to buy the NAS-specifix drive? in c/[email protected]
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WD drives. Do I really need to buy the NAS-specifix drive? (alien.top)
 

Hi. I'm in Australia and Amazon have both the 6TB WD Blue Desktop and WD NAS drives available, but the latter is 100 bucks more than the former (280 vs 190). They're both 5400rpm and have 256MB cache.

I run UnRAID at home, with the computer on 99% of the time. The drives are set to spin down after 15 minutes and I reckon at least a couple of my 8 drives spin up a handful of times a day.

What am I getting for that extra 100 bucks? What would I be missing out on if I bought the cheaper ones? I'd be thinking of buying 2 as one of them would be my new parity drive.

Thanks for any advice.

How much do you spend on maintaining your data hoard? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As little as possible. Almost everything in my NAS is hardware from other systems that I've upgraded.

UnRAID is great in that you can start off small and grow at your own speed.