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by frankreyes 1074 days ago
Even homelab, I keep my life's photos in a Nas and a single bit flip can make any picture unreadable.

The probability of a bit errors is not low, and if you keep data for a decade, it gets bad

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/497044/what-...

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> Even homelab > I keep my life's photos ...

To me, those should be two different categories.

* Homelab -> experimentation

* "My life's photos" -> production

But I guess that's just arguing over semantics at this point. :)

This is good to know. Thank you for the reference