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Yeah I have 3.5TB of photos. Backing them up redundantly is a bit of a pain but just a few external drives will do it, though requires manual syncing

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Thanks.

Also...holy shit, I haven't kept up on how precipitously prices for storage have dropped. Just saw a 10 TB external drive for only $150!

Just remember, local external drives can still burn up in fires or drown in floods. I thought about this recently a lot and went with a Synology where I can have all of my data locally but backup that data to B2 (Backblaze) automatically.

That 10TB drive is 100% fake! Amazon is full of fakes. A good rule of thumb right now is $60/TB, significantly less and you're approaching fake territory.

I should be clearer - that drive is fake if it's an SSD, it's a normal price for HDDs. Cost per TB of HDD isn't linear, though, it's a bit of a bathtub based on drive capacity and feature set (e.g CMR vs SMR)

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