Are clouds an acceptable alternative to your own hard drives? - Any? links to good hardware forums or pointers to external HDD enclosures with? controllers that never go stand by?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 2026-02-06 at 10:34 -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> there are various alternitives: RPi 5's have a PCIe interface ...

I want to have lots of individual drives for backup rotations, for
example (I already have loads, but I need some more). I don't want them
all to be affected by lightning strikes at the same time, and water
damage in the kitchen rarely affects the bedroom. In other words,
ideally I would like to have individual enclosures again that only do
what they are supposed to do, not a one or two server/s. It may be that
these enclosures no longer exist, in which case I will have to switch to
something else or work around the problem with a script, gvfs, smartd
... (there is also the problem of software waking up devices that should
be left asleep ;).