10-12-2015, 09:09 PM
Yes, 6TB on a single disk. You can even get 8TB if you want, but that meant buying a Seagate. No thanks.
That replaces 2x3TB + 2x2TB, which weren't full of course. It is not just photos, but pretty much my whole digital life.
Bit rot is a potential problem, but there are no easy solutions other than possibly ZFS mirroring and doubling up even more on hard disks... on an unrelated note, I'm wondering if it is time for me to move to server grade hardware. At least ECC ram, which is present on both my file servers but I hadn't bothered with on desktops.
I'm a Windows user. Note the files weren't missing or lost, but the content was all zeros. e.g. the file indicated a size of say 22MB, all of it digital zero. This is not the same as having deleted a file.
Anyway, I have randomly looked through some more file folders, and haven't seen anything unusual in any of the others so far. By why would 36 consecutive raw files be zeroed in this way?
That replaces 2x3TB + 2x2TB, which weren't full of course. It is not just photos, but pretty much my whole digital life.
Bit rot is a potential problem, but there are no easy solutions other than possibly ZFS mirroring and doubling up even more on hard disks... on an unrelated note, I'm wondering if it is time for me to move to server grade hardware. At least ECC ram, which is present on both my file servers but I hadn't bothered with on desktops.
I'm a Windows user. Note the files weren't missing or lost, but the content was all zeros. e.g. the file indicated a size of say 22MB, all of it digital zero. This is not the same as having deleted a file.
Anyway, I have randomly looked through some more file folders, and haven't seen anything unusual in any of the others so far. By why would 36 consecutive raw files be zeroed in this way?
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