Editing Introduction to a Self Managed Life: a 13 hour & 28 minute presentation by FUTO software (section)

== Step 1: Choose Hard Drives That Won’t Send you to [https://rossmanngroup.com/hard-drive-data-recovery-service/ Rossmann Data Recovery] using [https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive-test-data Backblaze Data] ==

If you spend nine hours setting this server up only to put your data on a Seagate rosewood, I will come through your television like Samara from the ring and pull you down a well. You could either

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<li><p>trust [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZCMislL6_I&t=49s amazon reviews].</p></li>
<li><p>use data from a company that runs over 260,000 hard drives &amp; publishes their failure rates quarterly</p></li>
<li><p>Use a seagate EXOS or rosewood</p></li></ol>

In order of bad ideas, C, A, then B. We will be doing B.

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=== Find Backblaze’s Drive Stats [https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive-test-data here] ===

When Backblaze publishes failure rates, they’re telling you what drives cost them money to replace. They don’t care which manufacturer looks good. They are honest about which drives are trash, they run them 24/7 in actual mission-critical server environments.

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=== Tips for reading their reports: ===

When you look at their quarterly reports, focus on:

# '''Annualized Failure Rate (AFR)'''
#* Under 1% = Great
#* 1-2% = Acceptable
#* Over 2% = No.
#* Over 3% = Probably a seagate rosewood or grenada, you might as well be giving your data to a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFVwQCFhKSE NYS tax collector]
# '''Drive Age &amp; Sample Size'''
#* A 0% failure rate is useless if they only have 10 drives, Look for models with 1,000+ samples

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* Pay attention to how long they’ve been using the drive you’re looking at.

'''Remember: The goal isn’t to spend five hours figuring out what drives are the best, it’s to spend a few minutes to learn which are the worst. A 0.32% vs 0.34% failure rate difference doesn’t matter, a 0.32% to 3.2% difference is what we’re looking to avoid.'''

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