{"id":11948,"date":"2017-02-07T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11948"},"modified":"2021-02-10T15:57:21","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T15:57:21","slug":"__trashed-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11948","title":{"rendered":"Blogathon 07\/17: Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The entire contents of my video and audio libraries are on my NAS.<\/p>\n<p>In the last 15 years I&nbsp;have experienced two laptop hard-disk failures.<\/p>\n<p>Each of those disk failures wiped every file that was stored on my laptop off the face of the planet.<\/p>\n<p>Audio files, video files, and all of my data.<\/p>\n<p>Gone.<\/p>\n<p>The first time it happened I just shrugged it off and put it down to a bad experience.<\/p>\n<p>I was naive, eh?<\/p>\n<p>About five years later it happened for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>And for the second time in six years I was devastated at my loss.<\/p>\n<p>Loss of data.<\/p>\n<p>Loss of photographs.<\/p>\n<p>Loss of video.<\/p>\n<p>Loss of audio.<\/p>\n<p>Loss of memories.<\/p>\n<p>Some time, and quite a lot of money later, I had put myself in a position where such a failure would never wipe me out in such a devastating way again.<\/p>\n<p>I had my NAS, and all of my data was on it.<\/p>\n<p>The NAS comprised two 2xTB disks, RAIDed, backing a web front-end with local and remote access through secure authentication.<\/p>\n<p>I had moved in to the world of private cloud storage.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate safety net.<\/p>\n<p>About a year later the price of data storage technology dropped through the floor.<\/p>\n<p>I bought a 2Tb USB external disk drive.<\/p>\n<p>And plugged it in to my NAS.<\/p>\n<p>This gave me an external backup facility, from which I could restore everything, just in case the RAIDed NAS disks failed.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11949\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11949\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11949\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Data-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"Volume of data\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Data-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Data-241x150.jpg 241w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Data-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Data.jpg 743w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11949\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Volume of data<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The entire contents of my video and audio libraries are on my NAS. In the last 15 years I&nbsp;have experienced two laptop hard-disk failures. Each<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}