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Comment by justinclift

3 years ago

Hang on, that sounds like you're copying critical data to a single disk?

That's not actually the case is it?!?!?!

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Juke_Ellington  3 years ago

It makes sense if you keep the old disks around until they kick it. You can always have 3-5 copies around in a decently readable state

  • favorited  3 years ago

    If you're not periodically checking the data for corruption, and only moving from a single drive to a replacement single drive, eventually you'll have some corrupted data which gets copied from drive to drive without you noticing.

    4 TB drives are dirt cheap. If someone would really be "lost" without this data, having some redundancy would be inexpensive and easy.