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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
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I had a 8tb 5400rpm drive lying around and thought, why not put it in my sound dampened win system.
Windows 10 spins the disk up every 5 minutes, with absolutely no reason and then stops it again. It would be great if it kept spinning but the startup sound is so noticable that I had to ditch it out of the system, it was beyond annoying