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Who are we?

We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

We are one. We are legion. And we're trying really hard not to forget.

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[–] resetbypeer 24 points 1 day ago (8 children)

That's nice but prices haven't moved for more than 5 years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

But we do have a much better organized second hand market, so there's that. /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is funny because my last 3 drives have all been used. $/TB has definitely gone up since COVID for new drives.

[–] thermal_shock 2 points 19 hours ago

used/refurb is perfect if you've got a raid setup and they have some sort of warranty. serverparts has 5 year warranty on most of their drives, and reasonably priced. upgraded to 4x 20TB last year when I upgraded my truenas and Plex server, haven't had issues.

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