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My face when I found out my 3TB data drive just died on me (burggit.moe)

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[–] Burger@burggit.moe 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of the stuff that I absolutely cannot lose at all are backed up on a private Gitlab repo. SMART unfortunately cannot predict when a hard disk mechanically fails. It could happen instantaneously without giving you any signs whatsoever.

It sucks because redundancy is expensive if you actually invest in a RAID setup. And it's not even considered a backup solution since filesystem corruption can happen, accidental deletions can fuck you over, etc.

[–] PinkBow@burggit.moe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It sucks because redundancy is expensive if you actually invest in a RAID setup.

Yep, buying that 2nd 10TB drive for the media center was painful... but less painful than it'd be to rip all those Blu-rays and torrent junk from nyaa again, so it was still worth it. And of course mdadm is working great.