Re: [libreoffice-users] External Hard Drives - to save my LO and other content

> needs.  I have seen the "red" drives as large as 8-TB for $400 USD.  The
> 4-TB run about $150.  If I have the money, I would replace my current drives
> with these drives.

I'm on the extreme side of safe-data paranoia.  :)  For my documents,
photos, and source code (basically stuff I create):

1. It lives on a SSD in my primary laptop
2. It's copied to an external 1TB WD RED drive that I keep in a safe
bolted to the floor.
3. Once a year, I create a Blu-Ray M-DISC of that year's stuff.  You
can get a 100GB M-DISC (that can go from boiling water to dry ice
without damage) for $20.
4. I have a home server that runs a dozen or so VM's.  It has two 4TB
WD RED drives in a RAID-1.  I sourced the drives separately- one from
Micro Center, the other from Amazon.  This is because statistically,
the chance that any two drives will fail at approximately the same
time is MUCH higher if both drives are from the same batch.  So I
ensured that each drive is from a different batch.  I have a LUKS
encrypted partition that I will occasionally mount and rsync my newest
stuff to, then unmount again.

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