In our first episode, Allan Jude), Jim Salter), and Joe Ressington) discuss Amazon cutting affiliate rates, SMR hard drives, and setting up off-site backups on the cheap.
News
Amazon reportedly planning drastic cuts to affiliate commission rates)
Buyer beware—that 2TB-6TB “NAS” drive you’ve been eyeing might be SMR)
Seagate says Network Attached Storage and SMR don’t mix)
Western Digital admits 2TB-6TB WD Red NAS drives use shingled magnetic recording)
Seagate ‘submarines’ SMR into 3 Barracuda drives and a Desktop HDD)
Toshiba desktop disk drives have shingles too)
Western Digital implies WD Red NAS SMR drive users are responsible for overuse problems)
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Joe has ~2TB of data that should be backed up off-site. Jim and Allan discuss the best ways to do that on a low budget.
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