Comment on Cheapest way to back up a *lot* of data?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 week agoI would definitely keep them warm, as in a running machine.
Drives on a shelf die more often than always-on drives.
Comment on Cheapest way to back up a *lot* of data?
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 week agoI would definitely keep them warm, as in a running machine.
Drives on a shelf die more often than always-on drives.
Scrollone@feddit.it 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week ago
But what about Amazon Glacier? That’s exactly what they do. Cheap storage on cold drives.