Quite the opposite. Use drives from as many different manufacturers as you can, especially when buying them at the same time. You want to avoid similar lifecycles and similar potential fabrication defects as much as possible, because those things increase the likelihood that they will fall close to each other - particularly with the stress of rebuilding the first one that failed.

Has someone asked what there IS to defend if not people’s lives?

I don’t know for sure, I’m not an avid watcher, but I’ve seen several pretty big channels talk about this in their videos and ask people to check their subscription because it does apparently happen.

Technically, no, but then they need another source of revenue, because servers at that scale aren’t cheap.

For seeding? Nah. Not unless you have a ton of upload and loads of peers making requests.

Get something that has an internal mirror, that’ll give you double the read throughput AND some redundancy.

I don’t have a guide handy, but I’d assume VLC could do that.

It’s been a while for me, but iirc most ISPs do offer their own servers. However, free Usenet servers are going to have very limited retention - in the order of days. The advantage of paid subscriptions is that they offer retention in the weeks or months.

Hot damn, that brings back memories. I might still have a couple of demos deep on the storage somewhere… I should look for them sometime.

It does sound like that, but I’m not judging without having seen their content.

I’ve experienced similar things on Reddit in the past; most recently a downvote brigade swooping down on myself and another experience storage administrator in r/hoarders for suggesting things - out of considerable enterprise expertise - on how to make storage on consumer grade disks more reliable and more recoverable.

Mostly I just shrug and move on, though. I’m addressing the OP, not the screechers, and if OP saw the advice that’s all I wanted anyway.

This person seems to take more issue with it, but they’ve taken their own way forward.