On 18/01/18 21:22, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > if you're going with external drives use laptop drives, or build a JBOD > with good cooling. in any case, monitor drive temperatures, in my > experiance anything above 100F is asking for a short life, bellow or at > 100F drives new and old are happy for over a decade which seems like a > long time, but most of us have data on older machines with older drives > somewhere in the house and most don't back that up or back it up often > enough. also note that most usb adapters don't even allow smart access, > so the only way to see if the drive's hot is to feel the enclosure which > is not terribly accurate or usefull. it's also really nice to be able > to run smart diagnostics and have the os monitor the smart status which > most versions of linux will do, don't know about winblows, haven't run > that since xp.
https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-2 There's an article about this on LWN, which is where I picked this up, but unfortunately it's currently subscribers-only and I'm not a subscriber, so I can't post a link to that. Cheers, Wol
