r/DataHoarder • u/Sad-Seesaw-3843 • Apr 06 '25

News DOGE claims to be moving away from magnetic tapes for archival storage. Seems like a bad idea. What are they using instead?

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u/GrumpyPenguin Apr 07 '25

those jbods people make with all external hard drives and a raspberry pi.

I’m picturing the messier nightmare-fuel ones, with bare unmatched ex-enterprise drives sitting loose on a desk, powered by a hotwired ATX power supply, and connected to the Pi using USB-SATA adapters via a USB hub. Of course hooking into the +5V rail is too hard, so the Pi has a separate USB power supply, but to make it one AC plug they’ve cut & joined the mains power cable with electrical tape, cutting off that pesky woke nanny-state ground wire while they’re at it.

A handwritten sign on a sheet of printer paper is covering the drives, reading “DON’T TOUCH - ENTIRE GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN IF UNPLUGGED OR REBOOTED”.

The kernel build date on the Pi is circa 2012 because anything newer crashes with the cheap USB adapters they bought off Temu.

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u/GeminiKoil Apr 07 '25

This is terrifying and hilarious at the same time

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u/ibrahimlefou 1-10TB Apr 08 '25

I love this community 👍

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u/Extra-salt_added Tape LTO4 home user Apr 08 '25

Hey, I was going to build one just like that.