6d ago

36TB SATA hard drive available to preorder now, with refurbished options already offered

www.techradar.com

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Just
Give
Us
3.5"
SSDs
- Here you go: https://nimbusdata.com/products/exadrive/specifications/
  
  Its itneresting how there's so little information on a page for a product that's so expensive.
When one of these drives fail and you have to resilver with a new disk: '3 weeks remaining' 😱😬😰
- This is why I switched to a 3-2-1 backup strategy with smaller drives in parallel. The resilver time on these monsters is brutal, especially if your running anything less than 10Gbe. I've been using my Soundleaf app to listen to audiobooks during the last two restores I had to do just to stay sane during the wait.
  
  Yeah, I'm doing 3-2-1 as well, though my off-site backups (two) only cover essential data, not my movie collection or anything else 'expendable'. I have 2x 10TB WD Red Pros alongside 2x 4TB WD Reds (they would now be Pros, before the name change). For the 10TBs I use daily-or-more snapshots, local full backup once a month that I disconnect physically (mitigate chance of ransomware attacks), and daily off-site. Along with raid1 (not a backup yada yada). So I'd need two drive failures, plus the external drive to fail, plus both off-sites to fail (different companies, different continents). I still want to get another local drive, backup to it say every 6 months, so if the 3 local disks all simultaneously die, I still have a chance with #4. 'soon'. This year hopefully.
  But regardless, I'm going to dread when one of them alerts me. Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
  (the 4TBs don't get backed up beyond snapshots as it's just ota dvr recordings and backup drives for another system)
And still prices remain at 15 € per TB or more.
I need it!

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