SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews is powered by your submissions, so send in your scoop. Only 16 submissions in the queue.
SoylentNews
This discussion has been archived.
No new comments can be posted.
Where do you primarily keep your files?
|
Log In/Create an Account
| Top
| 74 comments
| Search Discussion
The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. We are not responsible for them in any way.
How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday February 25 2019, @06:11PM (6 children)
Do the external disks spin continuously? Do you wonder if there is some limited lifetime on these drives? Even if it is years.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @06:02PM (1 child)
Of course not (unless you count the fact that they follow Earth's rotation). How would a disconnected disk sitting on a shelf spin? Those aren't perpetual motion machines, after all.
You know the concept of backups? You know, it's not just data on internal disks that you can backup …
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday March 04 2019, @01:20PM
True, but "quantum".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 01 2019, @09:49AM (3 children)
No. The limit on lifetime is the number of spin-ups, and you would not want the life to be too long (if you are the manufacturer).
In my experience, H/Ds unused for 5 years have about 50% failure rate too.
If you value the data long term, keep it on tape - 3 copies, in 3 different locations.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 04 2019, @01:21PM
and in 3 different languages.
(Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Tuesday March 05 2019, @05:17PM (1 child)
> on tape - 3 copies, in 3 different locations.
At least one of them outside the US, where all your tapes and backups could be seized one morning because your neighbor's uncle has a dog who humped a kid's leg. The odds of getting them back -still working- are near lottery levels, and that will cost you half your retirement.
Land of the free !
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday March 18 2019, @02:13AM
We employed tape backup as a form of sneaker-net to move large (for the day) amounts of data around the country in the early 1990s. Manufacturer's claims for MTBF notwithstanding, we discovered in a very short time that triple backups were an absolute necessity if data were to be trusted to tapes. Lost data on tape was about a 1% occurrence for us, which translated to about 2 tapes a month that had to rely on their first backup, and one tape a year that had a double failure and relied on its secondary backup.
🌻🌻 [google.com]