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Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?

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[–] zurchpet@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I use mine for desaster recovery.

Using tineshift to take hourly snapshots of my laptop computer.

I don't think my laptop and the drive fail at the same time so I think my use case is safe even with these risky drives.