[dba-Tech] Local storage, backups, SSD questions

[Fred Hooper]

Backblaze has unlimited backup for a fixed price; I’ve been happy with
them.

Fred

On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 7:39 PM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Not that I'm expert in hardware, but it seems to me that hard disks are a
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> thing of the past; given the size and price and speed of SSDs, the hard
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> disk seems doomed. Add to that cloud technology. Factor in the plummeting
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> cost/storage ratio of hard disks (3TB seems to becoming the standard). Let
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> us suppose that, like my friend Douglas, you like to store movies on your
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> hard drives. He has at least 1000 movies stored on a few drives. How is it
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> possible to back all that up. It would cost you lots to use the cloud.
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> As the numbers go up, my comprehension seems to go down. My friend is just
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> a consumer, not a professional. Let's assume that he has 3TB of data he
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> wants to back up. He looks to me for advice and I have no idea what to
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> suggest.
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> Any advice would be most gratefully received.
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>
>
> --
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> Arthur
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