• Rooty@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I know that making networks out of duct tape and bubblegum is a point of pride in the Linux community, but if you have to store vital data, wouldn’t a nice hardware NAS and a RAID array be a better solution?

    • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      How about an external HDD plugged into the Pi? Even a usb stick is better than writing it to the microsd card.

      • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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        2 years ago

        My brain didn’t even register that the meme was about NAS data residing on the SD card. I automatically assumed it’s on attached disks and was about to snark-reply about keeping a cloned SD card taped to the Pi case for such occasions.

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Not quite the same, but I made the mistake of using my RPi to run my home server and NAS off of an external USB non-NAS (i.e., not intended to be running 24/7) drive…with no backup or redundancy. The drive actually lasted a good long while, but it did die, and very suddenly, a couple of months ago. And now I’ve lost all my stuff that was on it. Still holding out hope I can figure out a way to recover the drive, but yeah.

    Back up your shit, yo.

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Sorry I’m not sure what you mean. Yes it’s an HDD. A USB plug-in one in a non-user-serviceable enclosure. I can’t (without completely destroying it) get the HDD itself out. And I’m not sure what it would even mean to put it into a working HDD. The broken HDD itself is the problem, I think.

          • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
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            2 years ago

            I can’t recall the exact model, but it’s some form of Seagate Expansion Desktop, sort of like the ones shown here. Mine was 1.5 TB, IIRC.

            Thanks for that link. Wish there was a bot to translate links back into normal YouTube videos like there’s one to send you off to that other site, but it’s easy enough to manually change the URL I suppose. Anyway, doing that is way beyond my skills, and I’m not sure the data would be worth paying a professional to do that either. I can’t imagine that comes cheap.