[geeks] The Wisdom of the Collective: Removable media

[Lionel Peterson]

So you are looking for SLOW solid-state drives? (Or are you specifying not
FAST hoping to save $?)

I'd take a 4 bay drive case, SATA w/ port multiplier, like this:

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fit
m%2F132187182236

Stuffed with 4TB consumer SATA drives, like this:

https://www.microcenter.com/product/476881/barracuda-4tb-5900rpm-sata-iii-6gb
-s-35-internal-hard-drive

And treat each drive as a distinct volume, like tape -one for daily backup,
another for weekly backup, another for monthly, etc...

And for a "belt and suspenders" solution, consider cloud storage for off-site
redundancy.

Ken (Lionel)

> On Sep 17, 2019, at 1:08 PM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net> wrote:
>
> ideally I'd prefer
> solid-state media.  (But FAST solid-state media, say SSDs; flash cards
> and anything USB need not apply.)