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

Cleared out my store's three units.

Pairing this with 8TB SATA SSD for disaster proof backups. After twenty years, getting all my data in one place...

... Well, except the 20TB overflow. That backs up to my $279 20TB's. Which hook into BackBlaze. They had better appreciate the loyalty. The 28TB backups sure cost them a lot.

I'm just glad I don't have more. Then I'd have to set up a NAS and, ugh, I'm just working too hard to enjoy doing that these days.

Only hiccup so far is either my 8TB Samsung 870 QVO died or the enclosure, a whopping 30 minutes in. This is why I backup meticulously in (at least) three separate locales, plus encrypted cloud.