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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Backing up easilyEnglish
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    2 days ago

    What are you trying to guard against with backups? It sounds like your greatest concern is data loss from hardware failure.

    The 3-2-1 approach exists because it addresses the different concerns about data loss: hardware failures, accidental deletion, physical disaster.

    That drive in your safe isn’t a good backup - drives fail just as often when offline as online (I believe they fail more often when powered off, but I don’t have data to support that). That safe isn’t waterproof, and it’s fire resistance is designed to protect paper, not hard drives.

    If this data is important enough to back up, then it’s worth having an off site copy of your backup. Backblaze is one way, but there are a number of cloud based storages that will work (Hetznet, etc).

    As to your Windows/Linux concern, just have a consistent data storage location, treat that location as authoritative, and perform backups from there. For example - I have a server, a NAS, and an always-on external drive as part of my data duplication. The server is authoritative, laptops and phones continuously sync to it via Syncthing or Resilio Sync, and it duplicates to the NAS and external drives on a schedule. I never touch the NAS or external drives. The server also has a cloud backup.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafetoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why Shouldn't I Use A Small Gaming PCEnglish
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    2 days ago

    From a cooling standpoint, you probably don’t want go any smaller than a Small Form Factor desktop. These are large enough to have a proper heatsink and fan on the cpu, enough space for a dedicated video card, have the motherboard connections for a card, large enough power supply, and can support a case fan.

    Mini desktops have minimal cooling capacity, definitely no case fan.

    For example, I run a Dell SFF (OptiPlex 7050) as a server for virtual machines, Jellyfin host, file server, and media converter. It’s an older machine with an 80 watt power supply (barely enough for my use case), no case fan, and the stock cooler/fan is fortunately well designed.

    That stock cooler also evacuates the case, but can’t move enough air to keep the large drive I installed at reasonable temps. Adding a case fan (centrifugal, which can handle restrictions) dropped the drive temps by more than 20F.

    Without the sizeable cpu cooler and it’s fan, there’s no way to keep the cpu cool when doing anything more than basic desktop functions. A mini pc would quickly overheat, unless it had a good fan.

  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Why do iphone users still see their phones as a status symbolEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Marketing.

    Go back to the Apple/PC ads in the 90’s,where the Apple guy was hip, and the PC guy was an old fuddy-duddy in a brown suit.

    Apple has always traded on the slickness of their products. They often claim to be the “first” at something, when they really just developed the first seriously marketable version.

    iPhone wasn’t the first smartphone by years. Just the first one that was slick enough for consumers to bite on, when a year before it was geeky to have such a device.