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On 3/6/21 4:52 am, antlists wrote: |
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> On 28/05/2021 17:17, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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>>> Anything with spinning disk "is obsolete" they are trying to give it |
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>>> way because nobody is buying them (you can buy them for few dollars), |
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>>> don't expect it to last long. |
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>> I've never had a hard drive fail on me. That includes a 2008 core2 |
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>> duo that I shut down last autumn. Web surfing was getting painfully |
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>> slow, and really large spreadsheets were dying in 3 gigabytes of ram, |
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>> but otherwise it still worked. 256 G SSD is not enough for me now. |
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>> That takes us into 512 G SSD territory, which will be "adequate" for |
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>> now, but who knows about my future needs. |
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> I've recovered (or tried to) drives for other people, but again I've |
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> been lucky in that I've never lost one of my own drives. |
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> ... |
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> I'm planning to buy one of those shingled horrors - a Seagate BaraCuda |
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> 12TB - for backups. Use btrfs or LVM, and rsync in-place copy. A good |
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> idea in any case, but probably an even better idea if your main |
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> storage is SSD. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Wol |
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Bounght a 4Tb usb3 backup drive that contains an SMR baracuda - took |
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quite a few days to transfer the 2Tb from its predecessor. Backup |
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(Borgbackup on btrfs) is quite fast with small changes between backup |
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sets - miserably slow otherwise. I am still in two minds if SMR is |
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usable (i.e., will finish before the next run is due!) in my scenario. |
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