STORAGE PURCHASE / STORAGE MANAGEMENT

Basics

Purchase

Ddiskrices.com crawls amazon data. Has filters, shows price per GB/TB, makes for a really good tool to find storage at good prices.
Serverpartdeals.com sells recertified/refurbished Enterprise drives that were usually used in data centers. 
  Makes for much cheaper drives that usually come with a warranty, but i'd advise going this route only if you're working on a RAID system and have spare money to be able to quickly replace drives in case of failures.
Backblaze has HDD and SSD data reports you can check. Interesting data to have.
 

Programs for management

Linux Software / Windows equivalent

QDiskInfo / CrystalDiskInfo

KDiskMark / DiskMark

QDirStat / WinDirStat


Additional reading :

Backups on installgentoo.com

Data recovery on installgentoo.com

Data destruction on installgentoo.com

Only semi-related, Home servers on installgentoo.com


Don't forget the 3-2-1 backup strategy; 3 copies, 2 on different types of media, 1 offsite.



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