expired Posted by silentalarm • Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020 5:15 AM
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expired Posted by silentalarm • Oct 29, 2020
Oct 29, 2020 5:15 AM
14TB WD Easystore External USB 3.0 Hard Drive
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Purchases made October 13, 2020 through January 2, 2021 have an extended return period through January 16, 2021
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I find it hard to believe- but the email actually had those stupid blocks in the subject
Mine only refers to 10% if you use your BB Card:
"10% BACK IN REWARDS DETAILS:
*Get 2.5 points per $1 spent (5% back in rewards) on qualifying Best Buy® purchases when you choose Standard Credit with your Best Buy Credit Card. If you apply and are approved for a new My Best Buy® Credit Card, your first day of purchases on the Credit Card using Standard Credit within the first 14 days of account opening will get an additional 2.5 bonus points (an additional 5% back in rewards, for a total of 10%). Points are not awarded on promotional credit purchases. May not be combined with other My Best Buy offers. Does not include tax. Additional limitations may apply. Subject to My Best Buy Program Terms. Subject to change without notice."
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I've been putting off proper management of professional photo/video backups and it looks like I now have my drives. Just need to find an enclosure for them now
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Specifically getting:
Sorry, we're having a system issue, but it should only be temporary.
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Friends don't let friends use BTRFS.
If you want to use an advanced filesystem, use ZFS. It works and is stable. Has worked for years.
I would NEVER consider using a FS that has been "work in progress" for a decade. BTRFS was a good theory, but that's it.
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Hoping someone in this thread might be able to help me out with a technical question:
I currently have four 8TB external drives (WD's) that are about 80% full (I run a plex server). Currently I've been sweating because I don't have any type of RAID backup going on (If a drive dies, it's 8TB of lost data).
I just purchased four of these bad boys (RIP my wallet). So, what I'd like to achieve is backing up all of my current drives, with the hopes of having some extra left over for future expansion. I'm currently running my Plex server off the externals plugged in through a USB hub. I looked into a NAS bay drive but most only fit 4 drives which would be two drives and 2 for backup... which is nowhere near the amount of bays I need for what will now be.... 8 hard drives I'll have. (8 Bay NAS's cost more than my computer).
****So, now that I've given you the setup, a few questions:
1) Will it be fine to just have 8 external drives plugged into my PC via a hub? Is there a better way to do this? Shuck them and put them all in some type of enclosure? Not going to lie that many drives in external enclosures is going to take up a lot of physical space, lol
2) Anyone know of the best way to back up my current data and cross transfer it? I'll have four 8TB drives and four 14TB drives. Is there some "smart" software that will evenly spread my data across the 8tb drives or something?
3) Really, any other tips or tricks for handling the type of setup I have would be awesome. Also I realize I should probably seek out some type of tech forum for this instead of SD, but I just bought these (damn you SD!) and was here so figured people in this thread may be knowledgeable.
I appreciate any and all responses. Thank you so much!
(1) At first I bought a PC case [newegg.com] with 8 internal HDD bays. Thought that would last me for a while.
(2) Then I outgrew the PC case so I bought a RSV-L4500 [newegg.com] off Amazon for about $100. To utilize the extra internal drive bays I also bought an LSI HBA pre-flashed to IT mode along with two SAS-to-4xSATA cables. So with this HBA card added to your motherboard you get plug-and-play support for 8 more internal drives.
(3) Then I outgrew the RSV-L4500 (and I got tired of doing 3.3v mods to workaround power issues) so I bought a Netapp DS4246 [ebay.com] disk shelf that supports up to 24 hot-swap drives. I also needed to swap my HBA card for one that includes an external [ebay.com] SAS port to connect to the disk shelf. Then you need a special cable [amazon.com] to connect the disk shelf to the HBA. But again, everything is "plug and play". Note that the disk shelf is not quiet... it came with two redundant 580w power supplies, and it's built for datacenter use so the fans are beefy.
That might be more info than you're looking for, but my point here is that I wish I skipped the RSV-L4500 step and just went straight to the disk shelf. It's so convenient being able to pop a hard drive into the shelf, and not worry about power supply issues or anything like that.
Finally, I use Stablebit Drivepool [stablebit.com] to pool all of my disks into a single "drive". Makes organizing for Plex a breeze. I also enable file duplication on my pool, so I can lose any one disk and have that data automatically migrated and re-duplicated throughout the existing disk pool. Along with their Stablebit Scanner tool, all of my drives are fully scanned once every 30 days, and if it detects an issue it will even email you and start migrating data off the defective drive. It's not an efficient use of space; you can do better with RAID since you only need 1 or 2 disks for parity depending on how you set it up. But I like the simplicity of my setup and I don't mind having to have the extra storage space. I'm sure others feel differently.
Hope this helps. Good luck!
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