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> ...Each is in a small faraday bag... Now that is a great idea! I do something similar to you with the exception of using faraday bags. Thanks for sharing!
I don’t know that it would shield from another Carrington event but figure it can’t hurt. Am assuming I will have more important problems in the event of rapid dispersal of nuclear radiation.
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You can check out the data hoarder subreddit, which often has good suggestions. My current setup is Ryzen on an AsRock motherboard (let's me use Unbuffered ECC RAM), and you use LSI HBA cards (see art of server on EBAY) which gives you more SATA ports. Still in the range of $500-$1000 (no HDD) depending on how you spec it out, but far more powerful and expandable for anything even close to that price range. If you ar…
Would you mind posting your AsRock hardware? I was considering AsRock x300 mini desktop, but it supports only 2.5” HDDs. I am looking for two 3.5” HDDs, one NVMe and ECC RAM, low power CPU, around $600 or so.
You will need a dedicated graphics card, thankfully they are going down in price, if you are going to run Plex/any kind of transcoding, I recommend looking up "NVENC Encoder Matrix" and finding a card that support h265 and B-Frames (Turing or later).
Biggest cost is easily the CPU, a 5600x will run you $190. You could try a 3600 for $150 but I have not tested that with the ECC RAM, which is completely undocumented what kind of support is there it seems.
You probably want the 5600x anyways, I was able to overclock the ECC RAM up to 3866MHz and set my infinity fabric FCLK to 1933MHz (the 3600 can't reach that really at all). It's only like 5% more performance though.
Might need to look at used parts (Mobo, CPU, GPU) to get it for $600, but I haven't looked up prices and tallied it up.
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Would you mind posting your AsRock hardware? I was considering AsRock x300 mini desktop, but it supports only 2.5” HDDs. I am looking for two 3.5” HDDs, one NVMe and ECC RAM, low power CPU, around $600 or so.
I am using the B550 Steel Legend (6 full speed SATA ports, which is perfect for raidz2 in ZFS), a Ryzen 5800x (you can't use the g variants with Unbuffered ECC), and my RAM is Kingston ECC Unbuffered DDR4 3200 Model KSM32ES8/16ME. You will need a dedicated graphics card, thankfully they are going down in price, if you are going to run Plex/any kind of transcoding, I recommend looking up "NVENC Encoder Matrix" and fin…
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But, are all those computers in the same location? Just one fire away from losing everything? I have all my photos and videos on local storage, but it is all mirrored to a secure cloud storage service that costs hardly anything. I’ve pulled the backups from that cloud service (you can’t access the files directly) to make sure it works properly.
> a secure cloud storage service that costs hardly anything Which is...?
I’ve also heard good things about Backblaze.
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But, are all those computers in the same location? Just one fire away from losing everything? I have all my photos and videos on local storage, but it is all mirrored to a secure cloud storage service that costs hardly anything. I’ve pulled the backups from that cloud service (you can’t access the files directly) to make sure it works properly.
I'm really curious to learn which cloud service that you use which "costs hardly anything". Would you kindly share?
I’ve also heard good things about Backblaze.
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Just be aware that SSDs are not stable long-term stores - they need to be periodically powered up or they will eventually lose data.
Am hoping that monthly/quarterly use is enough but that’s a good point to research.
Anyway as you say, worth doing your own research.
I have media going back 50 years. A common theme is all of it becomes unreadable after a while - not because the media degrades, but because you can't get a device that can read them (or it becomes very expensive to obtain such a device). Punch cards, paper tape, magtapes, 8" floppies, 5.25" floppies, PC hard drives, cartridge tapes, DECtapes, zip discs, hard drives, etc. The easiest by far solution is to simply copy…
I would assume that outboard CD/DVD drives (USB, maybe others) will be available for a long time to come. 3.5 inch USB floppy drives are still routine. 5.25 inch, try the used market. Who knows what happens in 10 years? That's for recovery. I wouldn't use floppies as a primary medium these days. CD/DVD might be on OK choice.
CDs only hold 800Mb of information. When you can get a 64G usb stick for $6, who is going to burn CDs anymore?
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I'm really curious to learn which cloud service that you use which "costs hardly anything". Would you kindly share?
Crashplan. I’ve also heard good things about Backblaze.
A bigger question is indexing that content. I would pay good money for a software suite that would let me scan all my old family photos and attach both text and audio. I'd love to sit down with my mother and one-by-one go through them and let her record the story behind them. I don't understand why such a format doesn't exist.
Put them in your PowerPoint alternative of choice and record narration?