Op maandag 21 oktober 2019 18:04:46 CEST schreef Carlos E. R.:
On 21/10/2019 13.07, jdd@dodin.org wrote:
Le 21/10/2019 à 12:15, Carlos E. R. a écrit :
On 21/10/2019 07.31, Mathias Homann wrote:
Am Samstag, 19. Oktober 2019, 01:38:53 CEST schrieb Doug McGarrett:
Saw a Samsung portable 500G ssd, but it spoke about s/w for Windows and Mac. I'd like to have a removable ssd to backup my TW system. Is there some kind of software I need to do this, and if so, where do I find it?
you need an empty USB3 case, a SSD drive of your choice, a screwdriver, and rsync.
I rather prefer rotating rust for the backup. More reliable/durable.
depends of what the OP mean by backup... if it's for a daily backup, why not a ssd
is it's for archiving, better use rotating rust. Much cheaper. As of reliability, I dunno how long an advice is uptodate, giving the fast technology pace
Apparently, ssds tend to die suddenly fully and completely. Sorry, but this is nonsense. These days entire data centers move from spinning rust to SSD. ( Except storage clusters maybe ). My bet is it will be hard to find a VPS hoster that does still offer spinning rust to run VM's from. Own experience: my own SSDs have outlived my spinning rust easily. The only failure I had was a broken controller. Ordered one from the Far East ( < $10 incl. shipping ) and it has run TW, incl. a couple of databases that are heavily used since then. By now it's 8 years old ( oldest is 10 years old, IIRC $400 for 64GB ). There's also some test on the web where they wrote > 7PB to SSDs before the 1st one died.
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