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SanDisk Extreme SSDs are “worthless,” multiple lawsuits against WD say (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Gnubyte@lemdit.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Hazdaz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Serious question:

How do you guys handle backups and how often do you do it?

I know I'm not doing particularly well. Once in a blue moon I'll copy over files from my main drive onto my secondary drive. But I'm not doing anything fancy - literally copy the Documents and a few other folders and that's it. I'm not compressing anything. I'm still keeping that secondary drive connected to my PC so if I got a virus, all that data could be infected. I also store some files on my Gdrive and OneDrive but those have long since filled up and I rarely bother to go through them to delete what I didn't need anymore.

I feel whatever backup tools Windows has built in are probably worthless, but then again, I could be totally wrong on that.

Curious how real people handle this.

[–] zerbey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You are on a trip to disaster. Trust me, I do this for a living. One day you're going to have a horrible surprise. I once had a guy get fired right there on a support call with me, he lost years worth of data because he wasn't following good archival processes.

For consumer stuff:

Buy a cheap NAS, plenty out there. Even one with just two drives is better than nothing (that's what I do). Splurge and get one that does RAID-5, you'll thank me one day. By the way, I've used WD stuff for a long time, and it's been the most reliable in my experience even though their customer service is a shit show to deal with. 1a. A cheaper, but less effective option, just buy two drives and see if your BIOS supports RAID (most modern motherboards do). If not, well you can do it in you OS too, but hardware RAID is always better.
Subscribe to a service like Google Drive, or One Drive, or Dropbox, or whatever you prefer. If you're uncomfortable about putting stuff in the cloud then encrypt it first (VeraCrypt, GPG4Win, Password protected ZIP files even).

If you are running a business, definitely go with a good NAS, AND buy a tape library and get into a routine of rotating out the tapes and storing them off site (tapes are no use to you if your building get broken into, or burns down). And, use cloud storage too.

[–] NRoach44@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Just a point of clarification: Don't use RAID 5 for more than 2-4 TB. The rebuild takes so long that the mean-time-between read errors statistic basically guarantees a read error while rebuilding, which may cause the controller to trash the array.

That and rebuilding that much data might push one of the drives over the edge anyway.

[–] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

UNRAID for larger amounts?

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