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Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?

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[–] FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If the data doesn't matter: Put it on one drive.

If losing the data would cost you minor downtime: Put it on two drives (or storage arrays of some sort) in two locations.

If losing the data would cause major downtime: Put it on three drives (or storage arrays of some sort) in two or three locations.

If losing the data would cause life-disrupting issues for multiple people: Put it on as many drives as possible/feasible (or storage arrays of some sort) in enough locations that you can sleep well at night.

Edit: weird thing to get a bunch of downvotes, but you do what you want with your data

[–] vsis@feddit.cl 3 points 1 year ago

This is pretty good advice. I don't get why the downvotes.

[–] uhmbah@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, this is the way.