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A comment on Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016. Parent comment

Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by mavhc on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:51PM (#13533867)
All portable hdds die quickly, no fans and they're moved a lot.

My photos are a) still on my sd card until it's full, b) on my raidz1 and raidz2 drives on my nas, c) backed up to flickr, free 1TB storage using https://github.com/richq/folders2flickr

Having only 1 copy of something that's easy to perfectly replicate is very silly.

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by tqkxzugoaupvwqr on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:48PM (#13535050)
What do you mean by “moved a lot”? I assumed the HDD heads are moved to a parking position when the disk is turned off to not accidentally slam into the disks.

Portable means the storage has a compact form factor and a case so you can carry it around (turned off). I have never seen anyone actually use a portable disk while moving. Everyone puts them on their desk next to the laptop. The only thing I can imagine is working on a train.

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by j3097736 on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:07PM (#13535731)
Even the 2.5" ones inside laptops that are basically desktop replacements and run cool enough seem to fail a lot compared to their 3.5" brothers.

Good thing SSDs exist now.

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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by mavhc on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:19PM (#13535844)
Accidentally knocked, or dragged by the cable because the laptop was moved a bit.
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Re:Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016 by coralreef on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:32PM (#13534355)
"easy"
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