On 3/6/21 4:52 am, antlists wrote: > On 28/05/2021 17:17, Walter Dnes wrote: >>> Anything with spinning disk "is obsolete" they are trying to give it >>> way because nobody is buying them (you can buy them for few dollars), >>> don't expect it to last long. >> >> I've never had a hard drive fail on me. That includes a 2008 core2 >> duo that I shut down last autumn. Web surfing was getting painfully >> slow, and really large spreadsheets were dying in 3 gigabytes of ram, >> but otherwise it still worked. 256 G SSD is not enough for me now. >> That takes us into 512 G SSD territory, which will be "adequate" for >> now, but who knows about my future needs. >> > I've recovered (or tried to) drives for other people, but again I've > been lucky in that I've never lost one of my own drives. > > ... > > I'm planning to buy one of those shingled horrors - a Seagate BaraCuda > 12TB - for backups. Use btrfs or LVM, and rsync in-place copy. A good > idea in any case, but probably an even better idea if your main > storage is SSD. > > Cheers, > Wol
Bounght a 4Tb usb3 backup drive that contains an SMR baracuda - took quite a few days to transfer the 2Tb from its predecessor. Backup (Borgbackup on btrfs) is quite fast with small changes between backup sets - miserably slow otherwise. I am still in two minds if SMR is usable (i.e., will finish before the next run is due!) in my scenario. BillK
