HDD vs SSD for Backup: Which Should You Use?
HDD or SSD for backup? Compare capacity, speed, portability, cost and restore performance to decide which storage type fits your backup strategy.
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CMR vs SMR Hard Drives: Which Should You Buy for NAS, Backup and Storage?
CMR or SMR? Learn which hard-drive recording technology makes sense for NAS, RAID, backups and bulk storage, why exact model numbers matter, and when SMR is actually a reasonable choice.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Reliability: What Years of Drive Data Really Tell Home Users
Backblaze publishes one of the most useful public datasets in storage: daily health records from hundreds of thousands of drives running in its data centers. I wanted to know what that data actually tells a home user shopping for backup, NAS or bulk-storage drives, so I pulled the public Drive Stats data into my own deterministic analysis instead of relying on a single quarter or a few headline numbers. Quick answer: Backblaze data is extremely useful, but it does not support a simple conclusion like “Brand X is best.” The better lesson is that specific drive models, capacity generations, age,
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Hard Drive Know IT Guyde: HDDs for Backup, NAS and Bulk Storage
A practical hard-drive buying guide for backup, NAS and bulk storage, including HDD vs SSD, CMR vs SMR, capacity planning, reliability and Amazon buying paths.
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Jon Panozzo from Lime Technology and Unraid – HGG394
We are joined by Jonathan Panozzo, the CMO/CSO with Lime Technology, Inc. headquartered out of Anaheim, CA, and the makers of UnRaid. Jon talks a little history of the company, their current community and what the future looks like in coming years! Big thanks to Jon and Spencer Jones for saying YES to the interview. …
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