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nomecks, in Do SSD failures follow the bathtub curve? Ask Backblaze

238 SSDs is hardly a good sample size.

quirzle,
@quirzle@kbin.social avatar

That's just what they've added this year. Total drive count is over 3k.

throwsbooks, in Do SSD failures follow the bathtub curve? Ask Backblaze

Ah, so Seagate still sucks!

running_ragged,

I think you’re reading that chart wrong.

Curcial and WD havea much higher rate on average across all their models.

The 800% is only because they had a single drive for a certain model, and it failed within 2 months. They have a lot of other Seagate models that are much older on average without any failures.

Seems like a shining recommendation to me.

CoriolisSTORM88, in Mixed device household - Needing help with storing photos and backups

Sorry for the double post, I don’t see how to edit a post with Memmy, but at some point I’d like to use Jellyfin or Plex. Is that something that needs to be separate, or can it be combined with the rest of this?

fury, in Mixed device household - Needing help with storing photos and backups

Take a look at hosting your own Nextcloud instance. It’ll replace Google drive, photos, docs, everything–there’s phone apps for iPhone and android. If you want to store your PC backups on it, that’s probably fine too. It might even work ok on the Pi 4 (though some parts it has integrations with may have trouble, like Nextcloud Office, since they may not have ARM binaries in their distribution).

It should work great on your local network and still be acceptable when uploading out and about (photos can auto sync if you turn that on on your Nextcloud phone app).

If 4TB is enough for your needs, I’d suggest getting another 4TB and making them a RAID1 pair using mdadm, and then probably also another 4TB to make backups of Nextcloud and Nextcloud data onto to keep offsite. You can never have too many copies of your data.

I’m not sure what to do about the variety of smaller drives. I can say I wouldn’t recommend consolidating them onto a single drive, because I did that once (many drives ranging from 60 gigglebytes to 300, onto one 1.5 TB drive) and then formatted or got rid of the smaller ones…and then dropped the 1.5 TB drive on the floor while it was running. Rip. But just like the above, a RAID1 array composed of two big drives would probably be fine.

Just make sure to set up some alerts for when a drive fails.

Nogami, in Mixed device household - Needing help with storing photos and backups

Look into unraid.

One upon a time I might’ve suggested FreeNAS/TrueNAS but now that unraid supports ZFS there’s not a really compelling reason except if you can’t afford the license fee (which is very reasonable $59-$129 for a lifetime license depending on the license you want. If you don’t want ZFS you can run a standard XFS file system that can be accessed by basically anything. Parity expansion and all the good stuff.

Just saw your additional comment. You can run dockers for Plex and more or full VMs.

They also sometimes do Black Friday discounts to buy a basic license and fully upgrade it).

Look at videos by spaceinvaderone for some examples of what it can do. I have two pro licenses and it’s easily the best computer purchase I’ve made in the last two decades.

paradox2011, (edited ) in Mixed device household - Needing help with storing photos and backups

Check out Immich for the photo backups. You can have multiple users with their own personal libraries. My family has Android and iOS backing up to my server right now, and its super nice to have it all consolidated.

Other than that, I second the nextcloud option. You can set the nextcloud app (which is available on all major OS) to auto upload pictures. Les Pas is a great way to view and manage a nextcloud photo library from Android.

wolfshadowheart, in Mixed device household - Needing help with storing photos and backups
@wolfshadowheart@kbin.social avatar

Just some other suggestions, there's also Syncthing (for backups and syncing devices) and PhotoPrism (like the user who suggested Immich, for gallery view.)

EugeneNine, in Mixed device household - Needing help with storing photos and backups

Second for nextcloud. Anything important on any of my devices is synced via my nextcloud.

Showroom7561, in CERN's storage swells beyond the exabyte barrier for LHC

Man, planning a 3-2-1 backup strategy for CERN must be a nightmare!

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Imagine the offsite storage

IphtashuFitz,

10 years ago I worked at a university that had a couple people doing research on LHC data. I forget the specifics but there is a global tiered system for replication of data coming from the LHC so that researchers all around the world can access it.

I probably don’t have it right, but as I recall, raw data is replicated from the LHC to two or three other locations (tier 1). The raw data contains a lot of uninteresting data (think a DVR/VCR recording a blank TV image) so those tier 1 locations analyze the data and removes all that unneeded data. This version of the data is then replicated to a dozen or so tier 2 locations. Lots of researchers have access to HPC clusters at those tier 2 locations in order to analyze that data. I believe tier 2 could even request chunks of data from tier 1 that wasn’t originally replicated in the event a researcher had a hunch there might actually be something interesting in the “blank” data that had originally been scrubbed.

The university where I worked had its own HPC cluster that was considered tier 3. It could replicate chunks of data from tier 2 on demand in order to analyze it locally. The way it was mostly used was our researchers would use tier 2 to do some high level analysis, and when they found something interesting they would use the tier 3 cluster to do more detailed analysis. This way they could throw a significant amount of our universities HPC resources at targeted data rather than competing with hundreds of other researchers all trying to do the same thing on the tier 2 clusters.

feedum_sneedson, in CERN's storage swells beyond the exabyte barrier for LHC

Did they find any other cool stuff out yet? I’ve not been following.

Celofyz, in What are my legal rights if my data is stored against my will?

privacy@lemmy.ml might be better place for this question

empireOfLove,

!privacyguides is also a good resource, it’s the technical successor to privacy guides on Reddit.

glad_cat, in What are my legal rights if my data is stored against my will?

GDPR or something. IIRC they must delete your stuff.

wmassingham,

Assuming they’re in the EU as well. If not, they probably don’t care at all.

Anders429,

Also I believe California has laws protecting your data privacy.

scrubbles, in NAS build, what's wrong with it?
@scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech avatar

Only thing I see is make sure you get the CMR drives. I got SMR and it really screws you. Check out this.

anandtech.com/…/western-digital-cleans-up-the-red…

You want something from column 2 or 3 in the image.

mumei,
@mumei@lemmy.world avatar

The ones I picked are part # WD40EFRX, so CMR according to that image you linked. It’s just that PCPP doesn’t call them WD Red Plus, but they are. In the end I think I’ll go with the IronWolf instead, since they’re not that much more expensive, but more loved by the community! Thanks

transientpunk, in NAS build, what's wrong with it?
@transientpunk@sh.itjust.works avatar

I think you could do better with your storage drives. Go to pcpartpicker and look at storage then sort by price/GB ascending. The very first entry is a 6tb drive for $57

mumei,
@mumei@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, those are cheaper but I also want reliability, so I prefer spending a bit more for the actual storage to get something known to be good!

transientpunk,
@transientpunk@sh.itjust.works avatar

Then use this: pcpartpicker.com/…/seagate-barracuda-compute-8-tb…

It’s cheaper, reputable, and double the capacity

mumei, (edited )
@mumei@lemmy.world avatar

edit: forgot to mention that I’m not USA-based, sorry! Wow, US prices are amazing. In my country that one is just a little less expensive, adjusted for capacity (the ones I picked are 4TB and 120, the Barracuda is 8TB and 205)! That’s a bummer haha but thanks for the suggestion! edit: let me check the 4TB though edit2: now that’s better, the 4TB is only 89 compared to 120 needed for the IronWolf

boothin, in NAS build, what's wrong with it?

There is a red asterisk on the ASRock website regarding ecc ram

mumei, (edited )
@mumei@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, the only thing they say is “For Ryzen Series APUs (Cezanne and Renoir), ECC is only supported with PRO CPUs.”. That’s why I didn’t pick a Ryzen with integrated GPU (I can’t find PRO models in my country). 2666 speed is supported, so those RAM I picked should work. Thanks!

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