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We just lost 3TB of data on a SanDisk Extreme SSD (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 years ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] Vortieum@sopuli.xyz 53 points 2 years ago (4 children)

NOTHING I have that is irreplaceable is on less than 2 drives nor are they ever connected at the same time. You're just asking to lose files if you only save them on one drive.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you have your data in one location, you have your data in zero locations.

The 3 2 1 of data retention is important

3 copies of your data

2 local

1 off-site

[–] 0110010001100010@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The 2 stands for on 2 different mediums. So HDD and tape for instance. Or HDD and SSD. Or SSD and DVDs. Whatever combo you choose that fits your needs. This (minimizes) the chance of loss of both.

[–] Yaeger@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

I’d love to use tape but so far couldn’t bring myself to make the Jump cause of the upfront cost of the drive. Other than that it would sound great to have tapes of my digitized bluray collection so as if my nas should fail unrecoverably, I could simply setup a new one and copy back the data instead of having to digitize everything again.

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know a lot of people who put their single copy of files on USB drives "for safety"

But in the case of the article looks like it was video shot and saved directly from the camera (professional cameras like the blackmagic save directly on USB SSDs), so there wasn't time to backup it

[–] RickRussell_CA@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

Looking at Blackmagic's pro-level cameras, they support external USB storage and dual SD Cards and dual CFast cards.

So there's certainly no requirement to use external USB storage.

But, they also say:

When shooting is complete you can simply move the external disk to your computer and start editing from the same disk, eliminating file copying!

Rather unfortunate advice.

[–] WtfEvenIsExistence@reddthat.com 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So are you a bot or no? Your account is marked as a bot. 🤔

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

A bot WOULD have good backup routines...

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago

I know a lot of people who put their single copy of files on USB drives "for safety"

But in the case of the article looks like it was video shot and saved directly from the camera (professional cameras like the blackmagic save directly on USB SSDs), so there wasn't time to backup it