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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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All in one build or dedicated Data Hoarder box? (alien.top)

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

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I'm looking to make a new PC, and I've been left with two options.

Make a larger ATX build, plenty of storage for the hoarding?
Make that sleek ITX that I have been eyeing up and just purchase a cheap used workstation and fill it with drives?

For my needs it doesn't need to be left on 24/7 so I'm not concerned with power consumption of the older Xeons, and currently I store everything on external drives which is fine but it would be nice to pop it all in one box, then back up. If you think the used workstation is a good option, any recommendations and one that can hold a fair few drives?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don't need it to be on your network and you don't need it to be on 24/7 and you don't need any running server services why not use a larger external enclosure? You could even get a 10 bay.

I like my SFF paired with externals for a not-always-powered-on archive and backup. I don't think I'll build a big tower PC ever again.

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

ooooh. special key