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Probably a dumb question, but: do I need to do anything to my media drive when swapping from Windows? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I have a small external backup drive where I dump my phone camera captures and archive YouTube channels - nothing special; a few terabytes, mostly mp4s.

Is there anything I need to do before/after I swap?

If it matters, the drive is 9TB, formatted as NTFS, and connected via USB 3.0.

I also have 4 internal drives, but I'm not so much worried about them, as I plan on just formatting everything but the external.

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[–] [S] 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I shudder to think of "if anything goes wrong." I really need some sort of redundancy for this drive. It all started with "I'm going to get a big drive so I can backup my phone," and it's grown to "I have 5 phones worth of memories and 3 terabytes of YouTube channels downloaded onto this single drive." lol

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I don’t know what your financial status is, but a nice Synology NAS unit is a terrific investment. I’m really happy with the one I got a while back.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago

    My financial status is I'm trying to figure out if starting a church to grift people will make me feel bad, lol. I'll probably use one of the old PCs I have laying around and turn it into some sort of homebrew nas. Hopefully before it's too late but probably not until I have a close call.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I was having problems with NTFS HDDs when I was dual booting. Needing to get into windows for solving them. Then I ditched Windows, reformatted my drives to EXT4 and never looked back.

    But now I am using EXT4 with LUKS for encryption.

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