Hard Drives and Backups?

[kbeck 74]

2 questions both are related.......

1. Have not bought any hard drives in a year. WOW. Even remanufactured drives are twice what a good drive was. Non-standard suggestions for finding a deal? Which leads me to.....

2. Do you back up all your data? I currently have a CENMATE 8 bay external enclosure with 6 x 8TB, 1x18TB, 1x20TB. Plus have a duplicate box I keep offsite with a duplicate mirrored set. It's awful tempting to use those mirrored drives but I know 1 will crap out eventually.

[vincen 88]

Hi

For medias servers it has always been a complicated subject the backup considering size of volumes most of time. On mine I have always used raidz2 to minimize risks of major failures because volume is way too large to be "backupable" (300To). Now with insane prices of hard drive and their lack of avalaibility, I have decided to give up and shut down my server that I was running since 20 years as it's no more manageable now with Hard drives unable to source plus the insane prices of them