The attacker is a doctor from a nearby city (Bernburg) living in Germany since 2006.

Isn’t that a good thing? Cause it makes russia at least somehow feel some consequences?

I can afford enterprise-grade drives. It is rather that I have little to no clue about the reliability and failure-rates of different manufacturers/models.

And how different are these from consumer-grade ones? Is it cheaper to buy expensive drives once instead of multiple cheap ones one after another or do the quality differences not matter that much at all?

Afaik the US only has a dozen in operation itself that get shifted around gpobally where they are needed the most. So there dont seem to be too many around.

There is Mailcow. But simple is relative I guess cause you still gotta configure a lot around it to not end up on every spamlist out there

If this is the thing I heard of a few days ago then google had multiple backups on different sites but they managed to delete all of them