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What's the cheapest reliable method of backing up my data?
Ballparking from your backup plan (12 GB working set, weekly backups, retention of three months), and assuming full backups rather than incremental backups, you need about 150 GB of storage, rather ...
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What's the cheapest reliable method of backing up my data?
I've had good luck with Seagate Barracuda drives. You can get a 1TB bare drive for $50 on Amazon, or go all the way up to 5TB:
Note that there are reports that Barracuda drives could be unreliable. ...
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What's the cheapest reliable method of backing up my data?
For super portable backups, I always recommend a Western Digital Passport. They come in a few different capacities and colors and you can choose an optional "grip" to make it quieter when it's laying ...
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Inexpensive Long-term (10-20-year) Archival Storage
Your criteria are impossible to merge together and here is why, ordered by cost.
You need a 10 year reliable storage that can handle more or less industrial quality requirements.
This is a quite high ...
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Weather station with API access
For those looking for a Weather station with an API i found some (not ordered):
Ambient Weather
JSON Formatted Data
Connection secured by key
Lot of weather stations (from $100 to $1000)
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System upgrade for a small home-server?
The perfect system here's impossible (and I'd be glad to be proven wrong).
The HP microserver gen 8
however would be a fairly decent simple replacement that'll meet many of your needs, though not ...
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External SATA enclosure for multiple disks
OK, so I have used an older version of this product with success, but not had a chance to use their latest version. My experience was good enough to make a general recommendation. Icy Dock now ...
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Fast Drives for MySQL Database Server
Depends on your servers and your needs.
Now, there's a few options with different levels of, well practicality. I'm suggesting samsung drives here since I've had decent experiences with them but your ...
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Drive to store very small amount of data
Well, there is an argument to be made here: Which is more important, low cost, or low capacity? I would suggest this: THZY 512M USB
Simply based on low price this would work.
Capacity is 512MB, ...
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External Music Production Library: NAS vs. External SSD vs. External HDD Thunderbolt?
Does it make sense to store relatively large sample libraries in a remote location?
It makes sense, but it's not at all beneficial. If you're going to be pulling samples into your project fairly ...
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Fast Drives for MySQL Database Server
13 million rows is 500GB?! You must have HUGE tables--that's 38KB/row! You must mean 13 Billion rows or 500MB?
I've been running a database that has grown from 500GB a few years ago to 1.5TB+ now. ...
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Is there a low power consuming device with good CPU to be used as a NAS?
If you want a non NUC class machine, just go with a mini ITX system. They arn't as ludicrously small but they have more expansion capability.
Looking at these reviews something like the asrock 3150 ...
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Cheap, reasonable 3TB internal HDD
It sounds like the best drive for your circumstances is a 3TB Western Digital Green.
Normally, I'd never recommend a WD Green because of severe performance issues (the firmware prioritizes power ...
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Smallest PC that can store 3.5-inch HDDs?
TL;DR: An Inwin IW-MS04, Fractal Design Node 304, or Silverstone DS380.
For the purpose of this, I'll be pretty much sticking to 3.5" HDDs–both since that's in the question, and since 3.5" HDDs still ...
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Difference between 3.5" and 2.5" SAS for home office server
Its extremely unlikely that a NAS or home server's going to be faster than local storage. You're better off getting fast local storage first if external disks are slowing you down. Your file server ...
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Long Time Storage Solution
This is one of the best examples there are of the problem you will face: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Domesday_Book
It might be better to ask how you can keep the data alive rather than in ...
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External SATA enclosure for multiple disks
The Mediasonic Probox looks like a good option for you. It can be found here It has support for esata and usb 3.0. It has fairly good cooling with a thermal sensor to automatically change the fan ...
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Is there a low power consuming device with good CPU to be used as a NAS?
Its a bit tricky. There's three elements to your problem and each of this needs to be handled seperately. Data, Power and 'space'
Easiest way? USB 3.0 Hard drives. They are typically fast enough for ...
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Does exist a SD card disk array?
You could buy a 4-port SD card hub for ~US$63.
However, you could easily make your own: SD card readers are available for less than $US2, and a 4-port USB hub for ~US$6, so you could assemble a ...
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External drive plugged in for long time
It should not be a problem. These have the same technology as SATA hard drives, and those are plugged into servers for a long time.
Make sure you provide a steady base though, since bumpage on an ...
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M.2 drive with 200,000 IOps R/W
That PNY SSD is pretty good, but looks like I can just barely beat you out ;)
SAMSUNG 960 EVO M.2 250GB
$128 @ newegg ships free in the US
250 GB
300,000 IOPS 4K Random Write
330,000 IOPS 4K Random ...
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Weather station with API access
I've used the Crodeon weather station and they offer a Rest API by default. Worked really well for me.
Solar power is optional and your can configure a measurement interval of up to 30 seconds. I don'...
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Fractal Design NODE 804 supports 10 drives. What micro-atx motherboards support this?
As far as boards with 10x SATA III 6GBps, I would go with this board:
EVGA X99 Micro2
Reasoning:
Built in m.2 support, ideal for an OS drive, leaving all SATA devices open for other uses.
DDR4 as ...
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HDD connector for laptop hardidsk to PC
That's a custom connector, specific to your brand of laptop. It should be possible to pull it off to reveal SATA power and data connectors underneath, which will work with your existing cables.
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System to format at least 10 laptop SATA drives
You're honestly better off just formatting each hard drive individually. It would probably take less time to format them one by one than to search around for a good deal on a 10x hard drive supporting ...
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What USB to IDE adapter that can send the ATA Secure Erase command?
I stepped on this problem some time ago when I tried arbitrary smartmontools commands and they refused to work on USB hard drive. After investigation of this issue it come out that not all USB to SATA/...
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Large, reliable external HDD for permanent storage
I'd recommend some 3.5-based drive from WDC like Elements Desktop or My Book 6Tb. WDC seems to be a best manufacturer in the terms of reliability nowadays according to this study https://github.com/...
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Is there a NAS adapter for USB drives?
addonics has introduced its Network Attached Storage (NAS) adapter, which is a $55 device that lets you plug a USB-powered external drive in one end and then connect an Ethernet cable to the other end ...
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What is the best cooling solution for ASRock C2750D4I Rack home NAS storage
This fan will do the job perfectly, as I installed it 2 weeks ago.
http://noctua.at/en/nf-a9-pwm.html
The CPU will not go over 48 Degrees C, no matter the load.
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