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   Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 00:49:38 JST Infoseepage

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   • Henrik Schönemann

   @lavaeolus Also, if portability is a factor, 8TB SSD option are actually more portable than the largest capacity single USB cable powered portable hard drives, like the Sandisk 6TB G-Armor series. I owned the 5TB version of this and despite the rubber bumpers, it died hard and experienced a constant clicking noise after it was dropped on a carpeted floor from table height ONCE. Precision mechanical systems are subject to physical damage far more easily than SSDs.

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     Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 00:49:38 JST Infoseepage

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     • Henrik Schönemann

     @lavaeolus I opted for replacing it with a 8TB nvme SSD and put it in a $30 USB-C enclosure.

     +very compact solution
     +much faster than HDD transfer rates
     +not going to suffer damage from minor physical mishandling

     -$650 for the 8TB NVME drive + $30 for enclosure.

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     Infoseepage (infoseepage@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 00:49:39 JST Infoseepage

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     • Henrik Schönemann

     @lavaeolus Hard drives are cheap, but not reliable. They can be a cost effective bulk storage solution for some applications when you've got multi-disk redundancy in a NAS, for instance.

     You can get a Samsung external 8TB SSD for ~$420 USD, which is going to be orders of magnitude more reliable than a single HDD.

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     Henrik Schönemann (lavaeolus@fedihum.org)'s status on Thursday, 06-Feb-2025 00:49:40 JST Henrik Schönemann

     #ForReasons
     I'm looking for cheap but reliable storage in the multiple TB-range (best would be HDDs) - does anyone have recommendations?
     (I'm based in Berlin)

     #fedihelp #SafeguardingResearch