Hey gais, pretty much the title. So far I was buying HDDs every few years always having a backup, had some drives fail tho. Today I was visiting a local data centre and they are using these cool but expensive high TBW enterprise TLC SSDs, (Samsung, Micron, Kioxia).

I know shiz about data preservation, if I buy one of those, do you think they are going to last longer without failing? If I lets say give them a power up once a while?

But it’s probably still way cheaper to just swap bad sector HDDs.

  • good4y0u@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    For 20 TB of computer measured storage you need a 22 TB hdd. ( Due to the way hard drive manufactures market vs how computers read disk size, they use different base systems)

    I recently got 20 TB Seagate EXOs for $260 on eBay sold new by Newegg .(20 TB EXOs has 18 TB usable as read by Windows and Linux )

  • Jon_TWR@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Two 20 GB drives in RAID-1 with a 3rd 20 GB drive as off-site backup will give you a pretty good level of data security.

    It’s not 3-2-1, but it’s a lot better than just a single 20 GB drive. :)