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In celebration of World Backup Day, March 31
In celebration of World Backup Day, March 31, I will be changing our
next to last 4 TB internal backup hard drive for a 8 TB hard drive stripped from an external USB drive. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/world...-up-the-world/ I ordered another WD 8 TB external USB drive from Big River yesterday to replace the last 4 TB internal drive. I will probably get to that in a month or so. Surely by the end of the year. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/ Lynn |
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In celebration of World Backup Day, March 31
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:54:08 -0500, Lynn McGuire
wrote: In celebration of World Backup Day, March 31, I will be changing our next to last 4 TB internal backup hard drive for a 8 TB hard drive stripped from an external USB drive. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/world...-up-the-world/ I ordered another WD 8 TB external USB drive from Big River yesterday to replace the last 4 TB internal drive. I will probably get to that in a month or so. Surely by the end of the year. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/ What do you do with the drives that you take out of service? At the moment, I've got 10 2TB drives in a cabinet drawer that I'm not sure what to do with, and I have a 15-drive mix of 2TB and 4TB drives in service that, if I upgraded to 8TB models, I could drastically reduce the drive count. Then I'd have even more pulled-from-service drives that I wouldn't know what to do with. All 15 of the 2TB drives were purchased in 2009 when the price dropped under $70, while the 4TB units were more recently purchased in 2014. |
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In celebration of World Backup Day, March 31
On 3/29/2018 2:06 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:54:08 -0500, Lynn McGuire wrote: In celebration of World Backup Day, March 31, I will be changing our next to last 4 TB internal backup hard drive for a 8 TB hard drive stripped from an external USB drive. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/world...-up-the-world/ I ordered another WD 8 TB external USB drive from Big River yesterday to replace the last 4 TB internal drive. I will probably get to that in a month or so. Surely by the end of the year. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/ What do you do with the drives that you take out of service? At the moment, I've got 10 2TB drives in a cabinet drawer that I'm not sure what to do with, and I have a 15-drive mix of 2TB and 4TB drives in service that, if I upgraded to 8TB models, I could drastically reduce the drive count. Then I'd have even more pulled-from-service drives that I wouldn't know what to do with. All 15 of the 2TB drives were purchased in 2009 when the price dropped under $70, while the 4TB units were more recently purchased in 2014. I either stick them in a drawer or repurpose them in a very limited manner. When the drawer gets too full, I take my hammer and screwdriver and punch a hole through the platters. Lynn |
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In celebration of World Backup Day, March 31
On Thu, 29 Mar 2018 15:51:31 -0500, Lynn McGuire
wrote: On 3/29/2018 2:06 PM, Mark Perkins wrote: What do you do with the drives that you take out of service? I either stick them in a drawer or repurpose them in a very limited manner. When the drawer gets too full, I take my hammer and screwdriver and punch a hole through the platters. OK, thanks for the info. I'll probably do something similar. You get to a point where it doesn't make sense to run so many drives. For me, at 15 data drives and an SSD in a PCIe bracket, the rig is full. I could easily add SATA ports, but there's nowhere to put more drives. I'm starting to lean toward migrating to a much smaller number of bigger drives. |
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In celebration of World Backup Day, March 31
On 03/29/2018 04:51 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
In celebration of World Backup Day, March 31, I will be changing our next to last 4 TB internal backup hard drive for a 8 TB hard drive stripped from an external USB drive. https://www.backblaze.com/blog/world...-up-the-world/ I ordered another WD 8 TB external USB drive from Big River yesterday to replace the last 4 TB internal drive.Â*Â* I will probably get to that in a month or so.Â* Surely by the end of the year. https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-...dp/B01LQQHLGC/ What do you do with the drives that you take out of service? At the moment, I've got 10 2TB drives in a cabinet drawer that I'm not sure what to do with, and I have a 15-drive mix of 2TB and 4TB drives in service that, if I upgraded to 8TB models, I could drastically reduce the drive count. Then I'd have even more pulled-from-service drives that I wouldn't know what to do with. All 15 of the 2TB drives were purchased in 2009 when the price dropped under $70, while the 4TB units were more recently purchased in 2014. I either stick them in a drawer or repurpose them in a very limited manner.Â* When the drawer gets too full, I take my hammer and screwdriver and punch a hole through the platters. All the drives I've taken out of service recently have bad sectors, which is why they were removed from service. Since they are formatted ZFS, I'm not sure that physically damaging them is worth the effort; I might just take them to the local computer-recycling store. Perce |
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