Hardware VS dvdisaster

I've read this guide which has been helpful. I'm familiar with building a pc, but still want to make sure I build something reasonable if that would be more cost effective in the long run for my use.

Assuming North American style wood frame drywall construction and internal air conditioning ducting, totally! Guide.

Nope, that's what I do (albeit for a different reason).

Can confirm that APC warranty replacement is very quick. 6 days from RMA filing to installing replacement.

Wrote a guide for this. Basically start at how much storage you need and work backwards.

At that size you should get your home wired for Ethernet.

Get your home wired for Ethernet. Wi-Fi won't be able to cover that well.

Guide. If you're looking for lifetime expandability get a case/chassis with the highest HDD slot count that can fit in your available footprint.

GitHub repo. Has releases, issues, a wiki, projects, a forum, etc.

Thanks, I've created an issue for it.

DVDisaster, https://github.com/speed47/dvdisaster

My family has a collection of important pictures, documents, and videos which are currently stored on CD-R, and have been since 2005. Ten out of the ~250 discs have been destroyed by disc rot, but luckily there were redundant copies. I am planning on migrating the collection to BD-R, because they seem much more robust. I'm also going to use ECC to protect the discs (https://github.com/speed47/dvdisaster)

For my optical backups I use this additional software, called DVDisaster. I create image with 10 to 15 % space left and let the program augment the image with recovery data. After that's done, I burn it to optical media.

dvdisaster

dvdisaster has returned to life too.

I hope you use dvdisaster to protect your data. If you use it on an ISO before burning it, you can make a bit-exact recovery in most cases, even discarding the zero padding introduced sometimes on re-ripping the disc and mangling things.

Even with archive-grade media you should use something like dvdisaster to generate error-correction-code (ECC) files for each disk (rule-of-thumb, 20% of each disk should be filled with ECC data. That only leaves you with 80 GB if you are using 100 GB BDXL M DISCs)

https://github.com/speed47/dvdisaster (there's tutorials to show you how this works all over youtube and the internet and the manual)