*boop*

“Insassen”

Considering my workstation tests all 128 GB RAM and 3 TB HDD storage during POST, I do know the feeling. But at least after POST all my devices, running Arch btw, start up in a few seconds including unlocking the disks from keyfile.

Like nearly all drivers lol

Drivers I needed to pay special attention to:

• NVidia (we all know the official stance on that topic)
• e1000e needs patching because my Laptops NIC somehow reports the wrong NVM checksum
• Some obscure chinese “USB to DVI-D” adapter
• The fingerprint sensor in my Laptop, as it’s still experimental

• I have had a lot of bad experiences with paid iOS apps, very little with free apps on Android - and even if so, there are dozens of FOSS alternatives
• Even worse
• Depends on which phone you choose; my 200€ Moto does have a pretty bad camera, but pretty good specs overall

If it fails, I will just throw in a new SSD and redo the backup. I sometimes delete everything and redo it anyway, for various reasons. In any case, I usually have all copies of all files on the original drive, as local backup on the device and backup on the workstation. And even if those three should fail - which I will immediately know, due to monitoring the systemd job - I still have daily backups on two different, global hosters as well as the seperate NAS. The only case in which all full backups would be affected would be a global destruction of all electronics due to solar storms or a general destruction of earth, in which case that’s the least of my problems. And in case the house burns down, and I only have the daily backups, potentially losing 24 hours of data, that’s also the least of my problems. Yes, generally using Raid 5 for backups is better, but in my case I have multiple copies of the same data at all times, surpassing the 321 rule (by far - 622, and soon 623). As all of my devices are connected via Gigabit, getting backups from eg. the workstation after the PC (with backups) died is just as fast as getting backups from the local PC backup Raid itself. And using Raid 0 is better (in speeds) than just slapping them together in series.

Because that’s what Raid 0 for, basically adding together storage space with faster reads and writes. The local backups are basically just to have earlier versions of (system) files, incrementally every hour, for reference or restoring. In case something goes wrong with the main root NVMe and a backup SSD at the same time (eg. trojan wiping everything), I still have exactly the same backups on my “workstation” (beefier server), on also a RAID 0 of 3 1 TB HDDs. And in case the house burns down or something, there are still daily full backups on Google Cloud and Hetzner.

256 GB root NVMe, 1 TB games hdd, 3* 256 GB SSD as raid 0 for local backups, 256 GB HDD for data, 256 GB SSD for VM images.

Bei der Bahn zählt nur, wie lang verspätet du die Nachricht abgegeben hast.

Im ersteren Fall wirst du in Falle eines Unfalls verklagt, im letzteren kann niemand mehr verklagt werden.