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I plan on getting an extra external HD for backup purposes and wanted to store it somewhere that isn't my house, to avoid losing all my data in the rare event that my house is robbed or catches fire. I had the idea that I could store it in my car trunk, but immediately thought of the risks of high temperatures in the summer. The hottest it typically gets here in the summer is 90 degrees, although occasionally it is possible to get to around 100. My trunk is completely shielded from any outside light, but will it still run the risk of getting too hot for an external HD?
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Apr 15, 2019 20:10
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You could make a friend instead.
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Apr 15, 2019 23:59
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Ouch. It needs to be somewhere I can grab every couple days without going out of my way.
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Apr 16, 2019 01:27
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Just get a Dropbox account and back up to that, unless you have a huge amount of data ?
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Apr 16, 2019 02:49
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I thought about that but it's $200 for a year of 2TB and right now an 8TB external is $135. And yeah, I'm working with a lot of raw video files so it adds up quickly.
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Apr 16, 2019 05:37
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There's also moisture in a car. I think that would damage the drive before heat did. I think the best option would be one of those cold storage backups that charge for recovery but let you back up really cheaply.
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Apr 16, 2019 09:40
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What if someone steals your car?
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Apr 16, 2019 12:56
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A safe deposit box is like  for a year.
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Apr 16, 2019 14:17
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Just use one of the cloud backup solutions: backblaze, carbonite, hubic, mozy, amazon glacier... Cheaper than Dropbox & a lot easier than storing a HD in your trunk.
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Apr 16, 2019 14:25
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100F is, like, a normal operating temperature for a HDD, with no ill effects on its long-term health.
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Apr 17, 2019 06:56
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Yea its fine. There are cars that have hard drives installed in them from the factory and yours isn't even going to be running. Id pack it in a box full of bubble or foam though.
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Apr 17, 2019 15:49
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Get an Otterbox or similar that will fit your drive. It'll protect from moisture and a measure of drop damage. I've seen some cheap ones at Harbor Freight recently.
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Apr 17, 2019 16:32
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Make a regular, offsite backup of the car and you should be fine.
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Apr 18, 2019 09:05
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apropos man posted:Make a regular, offsite backup of the car and you should be fine. You wouldn't download a car ?!
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Chikimiki posted:You wouldn't download a car ?!  More of a concern is how you are going to secure/mount that drive so you're not bouncing that backup drive around the car. I would hope you're going to use an SSD instead of a mechanical HDD and end up loving up your drive platters/heads from all the motion its going to be getting regardless if the drive is off and not in active use... You should seriously consider cloud backups or keep the HDD stowed elsewhere less likely to be involved in an auto accident... perhaps if not a safety deposit box, a home safe or hidey hole at work? Slayerjerman fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Apr 23, 2019 |
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Apr 23, 2019 02:24
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Slayerjerman posted:
bubble wrap my dude This is a redundant backup. Backup A is in my home.
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Apr 23, 2019 03:21
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Why would you not just get a $10 crashplan subscription and use that instead of relying on a USB drive in your trunk? I mean unless said data is non-commercial and losing all of it doesn't mean financial problems.
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Apr 25, 2019 01:25
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When a HD is powered down and the heads are parked off the platters, if it gets hosed up by "vibrations" that means your car has been in a high-speed collision and you have a bigger problem than your backup HD. Long-term moisture is maybe more of an issue, but at 8TB you can go for the sealed helium-filled ones that won't give a poo poo unless moisture is actually corroding the circuit board. SSDs are not great as backup drives because: 1) they're still more expensive per-bit, plus many people have a spare HD or two 2) unpowered data retention is a potential issue for SSDs 3) NAND memory in SSDs actually likes being warm, but doesn't like being hot hot hot Grabbing the first HD data sheet that came to hand pre:Environmental Temperature (°C) Operating 5 to 55 Non-operating -40 to 70
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Apr 25, 2019 07:55
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Magnetic media decays under high heat/humidity conditions. Inside of cars can get really hot over the summer and I would expect that to bleed back through the rear seats in to the trunk inside a couple hours. Seems like a bad idea.
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Apr 25, 2019 14:21
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Buy a fireproof safe and hide it in a secret place in your house where burglars won't find it. Because if they steal your PC, they are going to steal your car as well.
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If I had to do this, I'd buy something like this and keep the drive in that inside my car. Should provide some shock protection and a bit of a buffer for temperature issues in addition to humidity protection.
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Shut up Meg posted:Buy a fireproof safe and hide it in a secret place in your house where burglars won't find it. Keep in mind you'll want to get a fire safe specifically rated for computer media, because your average fire safe is only concerned with making sure paper documents don't catch fire.
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