• jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works
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        1 year ago

        Just don’t put anything important on there without a backup. You never know how good the refurbish is on those.

        I’m eventually gonna set up a proper RAID array with them to prevent data loss.

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          1 year ago

          Remember RAID is not a backup! RAID is for increasing uptime and only happens to help protect data (in some cases) as a side effect. Make sure you have backups of anything important or irreplaceable on that drive, preferably offsite!

          • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works
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            1 year ago

            It’s definitely not going to store anything important - that’s all done by Backblaze.

            It’s more for convenience so that I don’t have to download all my shows again if a drive fails.

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      1 year ago

      This is the situation I’m in but also using a QNAP which I’m going to decommission in favour of a proliant, but of course I can’t just swap the drives because of QNAPs damn proprietary FS

      My purchase of the month (and year) is the proliant. I’ll never touch QNAP kit again.

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      1 year ago

      Nice deals! Thanks for sharing.

      Does anyone knows of something like that based in Europe?

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      1 year ago

      I got a 12TB HDD for the same reason this year. Finally sailing the seas again and got my parents on it with overseerr. Very easy for older gen X to use.