Article: Reevaluating My Music Storage

[botrytis]

Be careful with QNAP - the OS they are using still seems to be full of holes and the many security experts have been poo-pooing their products because of that.

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I have lost documents (like my Ph.D. thesis) to HD errors, and dead HD's. So, I am very anal about backups, etc.

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1 minute ago, Jud said:

 

Ouch! Wow, the Ph.D thesis being lost is the stuff of nightmares. Were you able to recover/reconstruct it in some way? (Sorry for the OT, but I'm just hoping this has a reasonably happy ending.)

 

I just printed it out. I had all my data backed up, but we had to retype it in. All 275 pages of it. My wife can type 200 characters a minute, so there is that. Then I had to go back through and correct some corrections she did. That is another story.... 🤣

[botrytis]

There are small screens that could be used and are touch screens. That could be an option also. 

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4 hours ago, Rcanoe said:

I have duplicate 2T drives.  If one fails I use the duplicate to replace a new one.   All manual file transfers through a Mac.   Cheers!

 

I have 6 copies of my music - 6 - 8 TB drives - OK I am anal.....

[botrytis]

1 hour ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

I’m sure it’s possible, but I’m not sure how. 
 

The external USB should be formatted exFAT so it’s readable on macOS and Windows (if that’s needed).

I know that exFAT is very inefficient for size. The larger the HD size, the larger the block size, the more wasted space there is. With Windows and Linux (used Daphile, Volumio, and Red Hat), I used NTFS. Not sure about OSX.

[botrytis]

Well, exFAT can be read faster, but it is not as secure as NTFS.