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23 votes
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What is the most reliable and affordable form of storage medium to use as a backup drive for your computer?
I just had my backup hard drive die and while it did last a few good years, I just want to know what everyone else is using and what gets the best bang for buck.
30 votes -
Please help me understand and manage external hdd sleep
I have an external drive (3.5" hdd, SATA) in an enclosure (usb 3) (purchased separately), connected to a thunderbolt dock (OWC) connected alternately to an iMac and a macbook pro. The HDD goes to...
I have an external drive (3.5" hdd, SATA) in an enclosure (usb 3) (purchased separately), connected to a thunderbolt dock (OWC) connected alternately to an iMac and a macbook pro. The HDD goes to sleep, and causes problems. Freezes, weird internet access problems, kernel panics.
I have done some research, and can't seem to figure out:
how to know whether it is the drive, enclosure, or computer causing the sleep, although, fiddling with various settings on the mac seemed to have no effect, although it may have increased my battery usage :(
how to adjust settings on the drive, or in the enclosure.
How to determine what the sleep behavior of prospective drives will be.
As a workaround, I tried to write a zsh script to touch the drive ever few seconds. This kinda worked, but was a struggle to figure out appropriate permissions issues and how to make it run automatically.
I welcome all guidance, pointers to resources, clarifications, incantations, well-wishes.
8 votes -
Western Digital refused to answer our questions about its self-wiping SanDisk SSDs. Oh, and it’s also getting sued.
53 votes -
SanDisk’s silence deafens as high-profile users say Extreme SSDs still broken. SanDisk is ignoring lost data claims. It's time to ignore the company's SSDs.
71 votes -
Why are these external SSDs so different in price?
I'm talking about this 2 TB LaCie Portable SSD and this Samsung T7 2 TB SSD. They both have the same ~1 GB/s read-write speed, the same 3-year limited warranty, and the same USB 3.2 Gen2...
I'm talking about this 2 TB LaCie Portable SSD and this Samsung T7 2 TB SSD. They both have the same ~1 GB/s read-write speed, the same 3-year limited warranty, and the same USB 3.2 Gen2 connector. But the LaCie drive is $369, while the Samsung drive is $130.
Am I missing something? Or is it just luxury tax?6 votes -
Why millions of usable hard drives are being destroyed
18 votes -
Some SanDisk Extreme SSDs are wiping people’s data
10 votes -
No, you can’t get a 16TB SSD for a hundred bucks
5 votes -
Why lying about storage products is bad: An IBM DeskStar story
12 votes -
On WD Red NAS Drives: disclosure of Western Digital products that make use of Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR)
15 votes -
Backblaze hard drive stats Q1 2019
10 votes -
Eight ways sci-fi imagines data storage
8 votes -
Just what is intelligent storage? Here are three examples.
2 votes -
Factors that affect the reliability of SSDs, and how they compare to HDDs
5 votes -
Remember backing up to diskettes? I’m sorry. I do, too.
11 votes