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submitted 1 week ago by OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I have a small external backup drive where I dump my phone camera captures and archive YouTube channels - nothing special; a few terabytes, mostly mp4s.

Is there anything I need to do before/after I swap?

If it matters, the drive is 9TB, formatted as NTFS, and connected via USB 3.0.

I also have 4 internal drives, but I'm not so much worried about them, as I plan on just formatting everything but the external.

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[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I shudder to think of "if anything goes wrong." I really need some sort of redundancy for this drive. It all started with "I'm going to get a big drive so I can backup my phone," and it's grown to "I have 5 phones worth of memories and 3 terabytes of YouTube channels downloaded onto this single drive." lol

[-] AndrewZabar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I don’t know what your financial status is, but a nice Synology NAS unit is a terrific investment. I’m really happy with the one I got a while back.

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

My financial status is I'm trying to figure out if starting a church to grift people will make me feel bad, lol. I'll probably use one of the old PCs I have laying around and turn it into some sort of homebrew nas. Hopefully before it's too late but probably not until I have a close call.

[-] brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

I was having problems with NTFS HDDs when I was dual booting. Needing to get into windows for solving them. Then I ditched Windows, reformatted my drives to EXT4 and never looked back.

But now I am using EXT4 with LUKS for encryption.

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I believe I was on PopOS then. Now I am on EndeavorOS.

[-] OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Ok, cool. Thanks for the info

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