Because keeping your digital art is /ic related.So based on the last thread>>7946553I think I need to make some myth busting.Because /ic/ knows shit about technology>>7960066>>7949475>More parts=More points of failure.>I don't know how you don't understand this part.>Your caveat "Leave it at safe ground level" is offset by my caveat "plug the SSD every couple months to recharge">Both caveats accounted for, SSD will live longer.>>7949158>Might consider going SSD for storage in the future.Did the SSD marketing bot post this nonsense or are people really so clueless and eat up propaganda.FACT:If you pay ~500$ for a HDD or SSD you will have it work for a long time.There are benefits to SSDs and HDDs however only archiving is important here>Muh SSD speedsIrrelevant for you backing up your art scans etc.>Muh HDD breakWRONG a top of the line HDD will work and go on, HDDs have this property that if they work for over 2 years of non stop load they will work practically forever. Also HDDs do not get vanishing data like SSDs.This is why a HDD is preferable get ready to buy 2 or 3 copies to make a backup and KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!>NO REEE HDD breaks buy SSDThe only way a HDD will break is if you throw it.Here is the thing DO NOT FUCKEN THROW YOUR HDD OR COMPUTER!Like do I need to explain this to you?Anything throws on the ground will break and it is not like you or everyone will drop HDDS!I worked with computers for decades and if the HDD is inside a PC; ON THE GROUND then the chance you will drop it is practically zero.Do not throw computers, do not throw HDDs you needs to watch out for amplified vibrations if you place a computer on some shit setup or the worlds cheapest desk however the ground is golden.Also for the love of god never use flash drives they are cheep corrupt and you will lose everything. Yes they will survive if you throw them NOT SUPER HARD BTW more then a HDD however flash will DIE and your data will go away.1/2
>>7975298As for SSDs yes they will survive more abuse if you throw them ageist the wall however everything has its limit and even a SSD will break and you are looking at data recovery.DO NOT THROW SSDs! Like this is not something I should be explaining even however here we are.While SSDs can survive more throws they have a bad tendency to simply poof die and your data vanishes with it. Also data on SSDs will vanish over time HDDs are far more resistant to this. And we are talking 10 years of unplugged from electricity and will work or can be recovered by some technician if the motor fucks up.Actually HDDs are far more known and if you need that data back all you need to do is pay some company to recover it if the motor fails etc.[YouTube] REAL Data Recovery - Linus Swaps Hard Drive Actuator! (embed)The best is a HDD that you did do stress testing or used it for years. Them ore you use a SSD the closer it gets to perma death.However the best option is to actually have backups. We are talking buying 2 or 3 of these ~500$ HDDs or SSDs.As for SSDs they literally only makes sense if you non stop move it around the drives however even then you need to look out for unpluging it in the right way.Never use exFAT! Never use any FAT file system you need to have them formatted into NTFS. Most of the things you buy will come formatted as exFAT you need to change that! This will erase all the data BTW!I really have no good option for checking file integrity. You can try to use Win RAR with the option to add parryty data and set it to 100% however accesing a RAR file is dificult and not fast.You can try ZFS however that costs a minimum of 2 HDDs and a ZFS file server is not a backup, so you need 2 servers.You can try to use GIT and set up a GIT for your files no idea how it will react to files getting corrupted. And GIT is not made for this.Any questions NOT/g/ ?
>>79752993/3>B-b-b-b what if your house burns down?House fires affect less then 1% of people and if you do not life in some inferno prone region it is even lower. And google will ban your cloud storage subscription over bullshit.Mega can go crazy or shut down etc. Remember when mega upload was shut down? Yea none of these files are coming back!EVER!Remember when a Microsoft error basically deleted everything on your one drive and MS told you literally>Oh my bad>NO REFUNDS!All that subscription money was literally wasted!And you can do 2 things at the same time. Like you can upload to some cloud storage and have HDDs only do not think cloud shit is forever or that you are basically paying a subscription backed up by nothing and you can equally pay for free blowjobs for the MS/Apple/google CEO since if they fuck up or ban you, you have nothing. PS: The DA twitter question.Remember that if it is free you are the product.DA/twitter and other shit are basically you feeding their AI with free content to train on. Read the EULA.
>>7975298>>7975299>>7975301You're awesome.
>>7975319External SSDs only make sense if you move a lot.For example getting a external HDD that you move around with your tablet(that you take everywhere to draw on) is a bad idea because you are not supposed to do that.However moving the files from the tablet to the HDD that sits in your room is a good use of a HDD.Another reason to get a SSD over a HDD is if you change houses a lot. Like every year a new home and you take all your stuff with you.A HDD can get fucked in transport.Outside of these scenarios there is no reason to have a SSD.SSDs are subject to burning out(did you check the SMART data on your SSD? ) and losing data if not plugged in.Also these cheep HDDs or SSDs will shit themselves do not buy crap under 200$.Thumb drives are basically garbage and will shit themselves.Never use exFAT or FAT 32 under any circumstances. If it can not read NTFS it is not worth your time linux and windows can read NTFS. Use NTFS instead of a linux meme file system because companies actually can recover from NTFS failure and there are tools you can use to get data from a corrupted NTFS. Tools you can get for free. Linux meme file systems are basically unrecoverable once they get fucked because no one is doing recovery from them or if they do it will cost you a lot.
>>7975298LITERALLY a jeet
>>7975319Forgot to mention.If you plug a HDD over USB really really really be sure to do the unmounted operation correctly if you are going to unplug it.Safest way is to actually shut down the computer fully before unplugging the HDD. This is true for every thing USB SSD or HDD or flash shit etc.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p5UMrJfHWg&pp=ygUTZWplY3RpbmcgdXNiIGRyaXZlIA%3D%3D
>>7975334Feel free to draw a perfect thumbnail for the thread.
how does /ic/ store its digital files?
>>7975854When I replace my machine (which is rare) I'll typically copy important files to the newer machine, and then keep the old drives "as is" and put them aside as archives. I have one older drive that is an SSD, so based on this thread I'll connect it more often to ensure it holds its data. The most recent stuff is on an internal SSD. Occasionally, I connect an external SSD via USB and copy recent work over and disconnect the external. If anything iffy happens with unmounting, I shutdown and unplug. Though I haven't had problems with external USB drives. (External USB sticks are a regular pain in the ass, though.)Almost all of my stuff is analog, and I digitize it for the sake of cleaning up and printing, submitting somewhere, including in some document, etc. So a digital catastrophe would be annoying, but I'd still have most of my work.
>>7975298>Not using physical storageAnyway, the issue is that Google looks into your shit. Is it possible to upload encrypted zip files?
>>7975854I have a nextcloud server at my house that me and some of my friends use. It doesn't have a lot of storage space, but it's off-site backup (for everyone else) and people can trivially share things from there on the public internet. And people have some guarantee that I'm not personally going to ban them.
>>7976655Daily reminder that DA/Twitter/Facebook/apple/google who give you file hosting for free (unlimited file hosting! Clown emoji) will feed everything you upload there to their AI or sell it to open AI etc for them to feed it.It literally is on the TOS under>You forever own your copyright>However we can chose to ... World wide ... Display it .... For advertising .... You consent to this.This translates to them training some AI on your files.Remember if the product is free (and unlimited hosting) then you are the product!I think now we are why all these websites let you upload unlimited pictures for free. You are the product!
>>7975298stupid thread, another excuse for nodraws to spend their money without actually working on their drawing. A single digital art with overkill A4 format, 300 dpi res, and highest png export in photoshop barely reach 50mb in size, even if you did export something in 50mb every day for an entire month it'll took only 1,5gb of your space, which can easily be solved by a damn sd card or even a flash drive
>>7975334tired of /pol/tardation infecting every single board on this site, find something real to be angry about.we got literal rape gangs and elite pedo rings, AI datacenters predicting and controlling your behavior, a few years ago someone released a bioweapon that has killed millions of people, our political elites used it to enrich themselves and consolidate power while locking the rest of us up in our homes, and at this rate no one will ever be held accountable.we're living in a fucking dystopia and your biggest concern is that the youtube IT channel is run by le spooky brown man with a funny accent. you're a spiritual nigger. I don't care what your skin color is, you're not part of the civilized world.
>>7975298Yeah I'm tech illiterate idrc how do I back things up reliably without copy pasting stuff. I'm using kopia ui now but idk what's considered good or bad around these parts
>>7977475>>7977475??? Did you forget to take your meds?If you only draw traditionally and keep your art in your home and to participate on the internet you make a photo to upload then this thread is N/A for you.However.>Muh flash drive Will corrupt if that is your primary copy then you lost all.>50MB>2GBOk where is the problem? Did I disagree?Where do you keep your art?On the computer with the OS fun fact windows updates can delete your files so you know>Spend money!I speak from experience I did buy a cheep 2TB external HDD and it was great and then after 1 year it starts clicking. Biggest stress of my life to transfer all of it out!However these expensive 3TB external HDD that I did buy for years in 2009-2015 Work to this day and almost never fucked up.Do not fall for the oh a thumb drive is so cheep crap. Today you are expected to buy the 500$ HDD or SSD.I also keep shit loads of other files there so you know
