Large HDDs or SSDs?

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    ignatzatsonic said:
    Monthly image is good....but I'd hate to rely on imaging at all for data backup, particularly when data is changing hour to hour.

    System Restore can fail to run to completion, but it can sometimes be a quick fix short of restoring an image. Windows Update has a way of turning it off and deleting previous restore points, so it's tough to count on it.
    On Windows 7, I used SR maybe 5 or 10 times a year, nearly always successfully. On Windows 10, I use it much less often...maybe 5 times in 5 years.
    Hi ignatzatsonic,

    I'm not explaining myself well but agree with what you write.

    I too would not use a system image for all/critical data backup, actual back ups that's the must have.

    Until recently, SR, as far as I'm aware, never failed me over the years, by that I mean in my head SR was always there in an emergency. I was able to create SRPs and only used them as when and never had an issue getting my machine back up and running, it was never perfect but go me out of trouble.

    It's only since,( again as far as I am aware), I installed 20H2 I found I had issues with SR, maybe I'd been lucky, maybe there had been issues in the past and hadn't known it, not that it would have matter to much, as for many years I have kept a back up of data x 2.

    The issue there of course is, back ups are only as good as their upkeeping. SR was/is an instant, convenient fix for the most part with little or no data/application loss unless of course the HDD was screwed / so corrupted, you couldn't get to SR by one means or another.
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    jimbo45 said:
    On Linux systems
    I don't use Linux. My explanation for that is pretty much identical to the one in this post:
    KB4592438 CU Windows 10 v2004 build 19041.685 and v20H2 19042.685
    you don't need a separate Disk enclosure/ Just read up on MDADM and it all works.
    I already know all that. I only use Windows 10 because I depend on it 100% of the time, and, I don't want to run a VM.
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    hdmi said:
    I don't use Linux. My explanation for that is pretty much identical to the one in this post:
    KB4592438 CU Windows 10 v2004 build 19041.685 and v20H2 19042.685
    I already know all that. I only use Windows 10 because I depend on it 100% of the time, and, I don't want to run a VM.
    @hdmi

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    jimbo45 said:
    On Linux systems you don't need a separate Disk enclosure/ Just read up on MDADM and it all works.
    You would just need something running Linux with the disks attached to it instead. I'd probably expect that those not comfortable with Linux aren't going to be too excited about setting something up and putting their critical data there knowing that they have very little chance of troubleshooting a potential problem.
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    "Vlaamse Fritten met Mayonaise ".................hurray ! The best you can get ................
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    Size of the CPU and/or GPU and of the hard-drives will be very critical if one is going to mine various digital coins. Googling bitcoin mining, cryptocurrency mining, etc. is a real eye-opener of the computing power and storage needs.
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    RolandJS said:
    Size of the CPU and/or GPU and of the hard-drives will be very critical if one is going to mine various digital coins. Googling bitcoin mining, cryptocurrency mining, etc. is a real eye-opener of the computing power and storage needs.
    And, if news is to be believed, the amount of raw energy required to do so is of some concern although Cloud's energy consumption is far greater.

    But then I don't trust Cloud, I like to ferret away my own data on by own HDDs.
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    pparks1 said:
    You would just need something running Linux with the disks attached to it instead.
    How exactly were you planning on hooking a Windows 10 laptop up to this "something" and neither spend hundreds nor cripple the transfer rate so severely that it will be slower as opposed to faster? Also, which "something" do you know will get you there and not consume any power? Just sayin'...
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    pparks1 said:
    I get what you are saying. For example, I do have an 8TB Western Digital USB external drive. The purpose of that drive is to hold
    ^ I am considering adding a 1TB volume to all 4 of our desktops (mine, wifes's, son's and daughters) and use that volume to sync with OneDrive so that I have the phone uploading to the cloud, and the cloud syncing with the desktop. This way, if the cloud did blow up and lost everything, we would have a complete copy of everything. And I can do this on a small spinner drive because speed is not an issue. My internet bandwidth is the limiting factor.
    Having critical data that you cannot replace on only 1 drive is asking for trouble. Always have a backup. If you are using a 512GB drive, have something big enough to back it up. If you have a 4TB drive, make sure you have something big enough to back it up.
    Hi,

    I think the bottom line is, I can't lose an OS, there will all ways be a Win version available that can be reinstalled to get me going.

    Having said that, I am keeping an image back up of my OS, that has been drummed into me.

    I stick to my reasoning of small and often when it comes to critical data back up, X 2 and think a library of smaller 2-3 tb external HDDs instead of eggs all in on a mega HDD is a better solution for safe data storage.

    House keeping my backups is my issue.

    Below is an image of my HDD backups, both 1tb spinners, both supposed to be a mirror of each but it don't work that way for me.

    The red HDD I have constant access to and update on a monthly basis or as required. Anything I wish to keep that has found a temporary home on my internal storage drive gets transferred to the red HDD and easy to keep tidy.

    The Yellow one is kept else where and not always convenient to get to. There are about 40 duplicate folders on each HDD and a few contain sub-folders.

    By the time I get to updating the yellow hdd I may have edited/changed/deleted the red hdd and can't always remember what I have done.

    So I'm having to delete all contents of the yellow hdd and start again, copying and pasting from the red hdd.

    OK, for a while I have true copies of each but doing it my way is long and tedious but can't think of another way of updating the yellow HDD other then deleting its contents and starting all over.

    It works and I don't have to rely on the internet/band width/speed but it really is like watching paint dry and the procedure does have to be watched, can't leave it to its own devices.

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    hdmi said:
    How exactly were you planning on hooking a Windows 10 laptop up to this "something" and neither spend hundreds nor cripple the transfer rate so severely that it will be slower as opposed to faster? Also, which "something" do you know will get you there and not consume any power? Just sayin'...
    my response was meant to be sarcastic in nature. while you don't need a NAS enclosure, you would just instead need a fully running PC, Linux know-how, etc .
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