They told me I needed "purple surveillance"

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@mcc yeah you definitely want to make sure your purple is watched

[demize@unstable.systems]

@mcc but what has purple ever done to anyone

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@mcc huh. a model of hard drive. what a strange name.

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@mcc it really sounds like a lavendar scare remake ><

[mal3aby@mastodon.smears.org]

@dysfun @mcc It's the only way to ensure the continuance of your purple reign

[rogerbw@discordian.social]

@ireneista @mcc They seem quite cheap, but I haven't been able to find out their characteristics other than "good for surveillance systems". Steady writes, never to be read?

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@mal3aby @dysfun @mcc Purple containment is very important!

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@RogerBW @ireneista Some people are trying to convince me not to buy an external usb hard drive for backup but instead spend $40 more on an internal hd and then i guess a bit more than that on an enclosure

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@mcc @RogerBW @ireneista ohh, you mean shingled disks.

really slow, don't touch unless you're going to almost never actually use it.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@dysfun @RogerBW @ireneista I don't understand this post. You're saying I should avoid using the Purple drives for purposes *other* than the surveillance camera usecase?

[dysfun@social.treehouse.systems]

@mcc @RogerBW @ireneista yes. they employ a technology called shingling to get capacities up. and the downside is performance is terrible. that's why they market them for surveillance because they just need a relatively low rate of write and maybe even to be read again sometime.

[mcc@mastodon.social]

@kasperd @ireneista @RogerBW to me an internal hard drive in an enclosure is a win because it is in a nice plastic case and it won't get banged up in a move or something

[hikari@social.noyu.me]

@mcc is this a british military codename

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@kasperd @RogerBW @mcc out of curiosity, have you ever had this not be the case? it's been how every external drive we've ever disassembled works

[ireneista@adhd.irenes.space]

@nyanpasu64 @RogerBW @mcc @kasperd oh wow

[megmac@social.treehouse.systems]

@dysfun isn't that what @mcc wants though? The original spec was "back up to it and throw it in a drawer". Not surveillance, but not terribly different requirements.

@RogerBW @ireneista