Best medium for offline storage
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SSD's are pretty good
i'm a photographer so i backup all my raw files regularly... i use SSD's in a hotswap drive... easy to slide one in, copy everything over... then take it out and secure it somewhere safe
can always add to it later on or alter / remove anything as necessary, and easy to plug in and copy to a new drive or new medium if a better storage option comes available
i'm a photographer so i backup all my raw files regularly... i use SSD's in a hotswap drive... easy to slide one in, copy everything over... then take it out and secure it somewhere safe
can always add to it later on or alter / remove anything as necessary, and easy to plug in and copy to a new drive or new medium if a better storage option comes available
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Surely a mechanical drive would be better for long term storage than a disc?
Given how much cheaper mech drives are, you could take 2 backups for much less cost, then you've not got all your eggs in one basket.
Not sure what's best reliability wise, ssd or HDD, but if you've got 2 backups rather than one, you're statistically a lot safer, surely.
DVDs simply aren't big enough to be useful, if your backups are that small, I'd be looking at using USB flash drives as an alternative.
Not sure what's best reliability wise, ssd or HDD, but if you've got 2 backups rather than one, you're statistically a lot safer, surely.
DVDs simply aren't big enough to be useful, if your backups are that small, I'd be looking at using USB flash drives as an alternative.
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Most archiving is done on tape, quite a hardcore solution at home these days though. How valuable is the data?
I'd be quite worried about long term storage of important docs. I'd probably just renew it each year, but it depends on the amount of data etc.
I've got unlimited storage on Amazon drive for pictures, so I use that.
My system, documents/libraries, games and media are all on separate drives, each have daily incremental backups which are all copied to an archive external drive, and I'm about to add event based back (insertion of another external drive) for additional redundancy.
I don't work on anything super critical, but it's all aumotated and it means that if I lose a drive I can replace it very easily, and if I have to fresh wipe it has little impact as almost no data is on the system drive.
Cloud for important pics gives me peace of mind, and the freeness of prime makes it very much worth it.
Christ, long post, sorry.
I've got unlimited storage on Amazon drive for pictures, so I use that.
My system, documents/libraries, games and media are all on separate drives, each have daily incremental backups which are all copied to an archive external drive, and I'm about to add event based back (insertion of another external drive) for additional redundancy.
I don't work on anything super critical, but it's all aumotated and it means that if I lose a drive I can replace it very easily, and if I have to fresh wipe it has little impact as almost no data is on the system drive.
Cloud for important pics gives me peace of mind, and the freeness of prime makes it very much worth it.
Christ, long post, sorry.
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Depending on how important the data is, I would advise 2 mechanical hard drives each from a different manufacture, one of the hard drives also being kept at a different location.
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What lab said above!
Long term storage doesn't really depend on the storage medium, it depends on the back up strategy. Back up to at least two physical locations and test the integrity of the backups regularly.
How long the storage medium lasts means jack **** if the location it's stored at goes up in flames and there is no backup.
Long term storage doesn't really depend on the storage medium, it depends on the back up strategy. Back up to at least two physical locations and test the integrity of the backups regularly.
How long the storage medium lasts means jack **** if the location it's stored at goes up in flames and there is no backup.