Shouting in the Datacenter

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@kkarhan @Heidi Disks are sensitive.
@alterelefant @Heidi unless you use SSDs...
@kkarhan @Heidi Indeed, SSD storage is amazing for fast storage but not very cost effective for storing vast quantities of data that is not in need of lightning fast retrieval time. HDD's still have their place in the storage landscape and in certain scenario's they are considered to be more robust and more reliable than SSD's although in practice this is usually not really an issue.

@alterelefant @kkarhan @Heidi I dug out some 14 year old spinning rust drives which contain my photos and videos of unlicensed raves from the late 90s and early 2000s, as the statute of limitations have run out so I can finally share these on social media.

These drives worked perfectly after all these times.

@vfrmedia @kkarhan @Heidi Immediately copy your data to a fresh medium. There is no guarantee that those disks will spin up again tomorrow. HDD's do suffer from old age and mechanical wear.

@alterelefant @kkarhan @Heidi

thats the first thing I did, the pictures are now in 3 different places as well as the cloud (as they no longer pose any security problems being on there)

@vfrmedia @alterelefant @Heidi imI'd always 3-2-1 backup but all airgapped as a matter of InfoSec & compliance.