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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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Is there any rack-mount server case which support massive amount of HDD?
Discontinued Content Servers are excellent. I use these myself. Inexpensive, 900 TB per 4U with low cost 18 TB Seagate SAS drives.
I use ZFS, so adding drives on the fly is simple. Redundancy can be ...
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Is there any rack-mount server case which support massive amount of HDD?
you need to provide more numerical detail
for a 3.5" HDD you will commonly find rack mounts holding around 12 to 16 at most. That's because of the size of the 3.5" disk and the 19" ...
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Measuring reliability on newer harddrives in usb 3 enclosures
Nearly every enclosure now has a converter board speaking USB on one side and SATA, SATA M2, or NVME M.2 on the other. Most I've seen lately don't pass S.M.A.R.T because that extra logic to translate ...
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What's the cheapest reliable method of backing up my data?
For a MBP, about 2-3 years ago I got:
2 very small external USB C enclosures, not docks. USB C means the drive can be powered through it. And it's fast. Enclosures means the drives get protected, ...
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