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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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Are used hard drives ok? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by ImHidingtheRealMe@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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If you don’t have the money for the most amount of terabytes there is but you can find it in your budget if you buy it pre-owned.

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[–] _buttsnorkel@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

My thought on this has always been: if you care about your data (family photos, music), then you should spend the money to get new drives

But a lot of people hate this, and argue that if your backups work properly then you can buy any HDD you want regardless of abuse or how old it is.

I just want my shit to work and not have to worry about it so I buy new