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12TB HGST Ultrastar DC HC520 SATA 6GB 3.5" 7200RPM Enterprise HDD (Refurbished: Excellent) on sale for
$74.99.
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About Refurbished Condition:
- These HDD is used by Datacenter Servers for about 5 years period.HDD was refurbished and data wiped with DoD Standard.
- It's fully tested & passed HGST factory diagnose software test with ZERO Bad sectors!
- Since this is a heavy duty enterprise HDD with 2.5M-hour MTBF rating.
Notable Specs:
- Ultrastar He12 Series
- 3.5" Form Factor
- SATA 6Gb/s Interface
- 256MB Cache
- 7.2K RPM Spindle Speed
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Locally you can do disk to disk backup
Locally you can use RAID and multiple drives
Remotely you can sync your data to a cloud provider like MS OneDrive, Amazon AWS, Google Drive, DropBOx, ect....
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If your "raid" setup gets hit by ransomware or you deleted something by mistake that's it for you.
I personally use windows server backup, nothing fancy.
Just a simple image based backup. It works and works well. I don't know what you'll be putting this on but you'll need a windows server for that.
I've had a raid1 fail where the drives were about the same age. When one of the drives finally died and during the rebuild process the other one bit the dust.
Total data loss because the client believed raid1 was good "backup"
I've been working in the IT sector for a while now, it is alarmingly shocking to see how many people have this false belief that raid is a good "backup plan"
So good luck with that one bit of advice.
I've had a raid1 fail where the drives were about the same age. When one of the drives finally died and during the rebuild process the other one bit the dust.
Total data loss because the client believed raid1 was good "backup"
I've been working in the IT sector for a while now, it is alarmingly shocking to see how many people have this false belief that raid is a good "backup plan"
So good luck with that one bit of advice.
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To further my example, i've once had a client get robbed. They had a local backup and was following decent procedures. The only problem: thieves cleaned the whole place, computer backups and all. They didn't want to pay for cloud storage because it costs too much. Well.......
I worked with a lot of small and midsize businesses and they cut corners on IT suggestions. I only give advice and unfortunately can't enforce them.
When they fail spectacularly...... pay day
The best strategy for most people who really give a damn is "3-2-1".
For everyone else who give even an once of shit about their data......I would say open your wallet and subscribe to backblaze. It used to be $5 a month for all you can upload data. For most consumers i think it's a great deal to let you sleep at night. I'm not familiar with their current pricing but i'm sure it's gone up.
Honestly most if this is probably a waste of keystrokes until you've personally suffered catastrophic loss of data i highly doubt people will follow this advice. It's a human problem.
To further my example, i've once had a client get robbed. They had a local backup and was following decent procedures. The only problem: thieves cleaned the whole place, computer backups and all. They didn't want to pay for cloud storage because it costs too much. Well.......
I worked with a lot of small and midsize businesses and they cut corners on IT suggestions. I only give advice and unfortunately can't enforce them.
When they fail spectacularly...... pay day
The best strategy for most people who really give a damn is "3-2-1".
For everyone else who give even an once of shit about their data......I would say open your wallet and subscribe to backblaze. It used to be $5 a month for all you can upload data. For most consumers i think it's a great deal to let you sleep at night. I'm not familiar with their current pricing but i'm sure it's gone up.
Honestly most if this is probably a waste of keystrokes until you've personally suffered catastrophic loss of data i highly doubt people will follow this advice. It's a human problem.
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I've had a raid1 fail where the drives were about the same age. When one of the drives finally died and during the rebuild process the other one bit the dust.
Total data loss because the client believed raid1 was good "backup"
I've been working in the IT sector for a while now, it is alarmingly shocking to see how many people have this false belief that raid is a good "backup plan"
So good luck with that one bit of advice.
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