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Re:What every programmer should know about solid-state drive... by Dwedit on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @03:13PM (#31496335)
Get an 8TB backup drive (Costco has them really cheap), and run Macrium Reflect to clone your HDD onto the backup drive. Macrium Reflect makes use of Volume Shadow Copy, so you can continue using your computer while it's backing things up.

Those big backup HDDs use shingled storage, so they're not any good as general purpose hard drives, but they're excellent for strictly sequential writes, such as a full disk backup to a single file.

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Re:What every programmer should know about solid-state drive... by eli on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @03:47PM (#31496721)
Pair that with an online/remote backup and you're all set. I like Backblaze because the software client is very good but you could just as well push your own encrypted backup to S3 or a VPS.
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Re:What every programmer should know about solid-state drive... by thekrendal on Tuesday May 24, 2022 @04:48PM (#31497397)
You can also use BackBlaze B2 to push your own backups with whatever software will support it, similarly to how you'd use S3.
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