I'm honestly thinking I'm going to have to backup my entire G-Drive externally and wipe it (for the security of my Google account). I mean, who knows what will trigger the deletion of your Google account these days... I guess the storage I pay for is just for e-mails.
It’s enough to make me anxious between backups: at least with spinning rust-drives we can transplant the platters and controllers (separately, even!) while SSD hardware recovery is almost unheard of.
I've never had even the cheapest mwave or microcenter special ssd die. Sata or nvme m.2, nothing.
I also haven't had a spindle die in 15 years, ever since I started letting them sleep and using UPS to smooth out power.
That noise you hear is me knocking on wood pretty frantically.
though the ssds i use are for backup and arent used very often for writing... i wonder if that makes a difference?
Two or more external-DDs, copied regularly per how much they are willing to spend time and lose data. One stored in some other place if possible.
RAID is not a substitute for rotating backups.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/synology-warn...
You really want offline backups. Never recommend “not having to back it up regularly”.
uhmm... there is no article. It's a link to a google support forum thread. And the way the author of the initial post (not just the replies) describes the way they use Google Drive and how they use technology in general suggests the person does not have the same level of tech-savvy as a typical HN reader.
Fine, then s/article/post/ in what I said.
> the way the author of the initial post (not just the replies) describes the way they use Google Drive and how they use technology in general suggests the person does not have the same level of tech-savvy as a typical HN reader
I agree; I'm simply pointing out that if you are going to try to execute a project that requires a lot of digital storage of important data, you should be tech savvy, or collaborate with someone who is. You certainly should not expect a free service like Google Drive to be a secure, reliable data store for your only copies of important data.