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by pcurve 947 days ago
Yup. All drives kick the bucket at some point. That's why I use BB. I don't trust myself with NAS.

The ones that never failed me were any drives made by Quantum using SCSI interface. 5 drives, zero failure over 10+ years. But those were slower and cooler running units.
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kstrauser 947 days ago
I’ve got a NAS backed up to Backblaze. It’s a nice setup. I can quickly recover from local data loss, or replace a RAID disk when needed, but if the NAS gets hit by a bus then I still haven’t lost everything.
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pcurve 946 days ago
That is a nice setup since it minimizes recovery time to nothing. I'm guessing you're using their B2?

I've had 2 drive failures since using BB so it's been worthwhile. But their Download software is pretty dreadful if you have large amount of files. I may try their ship-drive option next time.

Tracking their stock price, they are operating pretty lean, so I don't fault them for having crappy software.

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