I would definitely keep them warm, as in a running machine.
Drives on a shelf die more often than always-on drives.
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RamRabbit@lemmy.world 1 week ago
My suggestion: Buy 3x 28TB drives. Mirror the data to them. Then move them off site.
The off-site location could either be a family member’s home where you can then sync to the drives over the internet. Or in a PO box nearby that you retrieve them from time to time to re-sync the data.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 6 days ago
Scrollone@feddit.it 5 days ago
Really? Do you have any source on that?
If it’s true, I bet it’s only if they’re actually running without ever spinning down.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 4 days ago
Nothng ofdicial, sorry, wish I did!
Mostly personal experience. But that experience is also shared among a group of peers and friends in the SMB space where their clients think they can keep stuff on externals in an office safe only to find they’ve gone tits up nearly every time the pull them out a couple years later.
In the enterprise you’d get laughed out of a datacenter for even suggesting cold drives for anything. Of course that’s based around simple bit rot concerns, and why file systems like ZFS use a methodology to test/verify bits on a regular basis.
Scrollone@feddit.it 4 days ago
But what about Amazon Glacier? That’s exactly what they do. Cheap storage on cold drives.
EarMaster@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That is the cheapest option. Maybe the most convenient or most reliable option, but definitely the cheapest.