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  • with two drives (preferably different brands/age, HDD or SSD doesn’t really matter) in it using a checksumming filesystem like btrfs or ZFS so that you can do regular scrubs to verify data integrity.

    an important detail here is to add the 2 disks to the filesystem in a way so that the second one does not extend the capacity, but adds parity. on ZFS, this can be done with a mirror vdev (simplest for this case) or a raidz1 vdev.


  • went with an ssd in this idea since its more durable than a mechanical, better price for storage capacity

    how? sorry but that does not add up to me. for the price of a 2 TB SSD you could by a much larger HDD

    and most likely to be compatible with other computers in the future in case you need it for whatever reason.

    both of these use SATA plugs, it should be the same









  • yeah. the reason is that they can get away with that.

    this change was bundled with another one that was kind of good to have: building apps to an .aab file and making split apk’s out of it.
    but in this scheme the dev builds the .aab, and google makes the split apk’s, and google needs your signing key to make the signed split APKs. the reason they need your formerly used signature’s keys is because if they would have started signing apps with a new one, users who had your app already installed would have had to first uninstall the app and lose their data, because android has a security feature that does not allow an update that has a different signature.

    of course, while at first it was an option, the play store has soon made it a requirement that you upload your apps as .aab files.
    developers basically didn’t have a choice, other than not releasing any more updates to the play store and letting google delete “outdated” apps when they want, like they’ll have a sweep soon.