So excited to consolidate my mess of drives and get a big boost to my storage.
Don’t forget to back up to other additional drives!
Consolidating all your data into one drive is very convenient, but if you aren’t backing it all up then it’s only a matter of time until you lose everything. If you’re gonna have a bunch of small drives hanging out you can use them as a backup. You could even set them up into a RAID, but I’ve never actually done that so i can’t vouch for it
So, oddly enough, I rarely ever back things up. I will back up things that I absolutely cannot afford to lose, but other than that my general thoughts are to leave my data in the hands of the HDD gods.
Sometimes it’s good to have an unexpected clear out… But only sometimes.
I’m also aware that this could entirely just a “me” thing.
Photo of storage device.
I got the 8TB version the other day since it was cheap, but it’s mostly for Jellyfin.
Not as appreciated nowadays but I still use spinning disk for bulk media storage
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More or less how my setup is. Ssds in the desktop and spinning disk in the nas. I’m also impressed with how massive they’ve gotten over time.
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I’m just a massive data hoarder who refuses to use streaming services.
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Just don’t go all the way cold. Both SSDs and HDDs need to be regularly powered to retain the data stored on them over a span of years. As long as you occasionally access the storage volume, you’re good, but if you’re planning on leaving a drive untouched and unpowered for more than five years, the data might not survive even if the drive does.
For that kind of long term resilience, there’s really only tape drives and optical.
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Obviously. I’m not actually recommending tape drives or optical, but rather that you simply do not leave your drives unpowered for 5+ years straight.
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It’s not necessarily the spin up that’s the problem, but the fact that a magnetised bit doesn’t last forever.
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Can i also have your husband?
Since this will only be the beginning bookmark this for later :P
Lol it’s so funny you say that. I got this because I’ve been wanting to consolidate 4 different drives in my gaming pc (about 5TB total). But as soon as I saw this I thought ‘why should I get rid of perfectly good drives? I can have 17TB instead of 12’. It feels like I’ve got the seeds of a bad habit growing lol.
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Now tell him you need another for mirrored backups 😆
