HDD for comic collection storage.

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Looking for a reliable 5400/7200 rpm HDD for my ever growing comic collection. Bigger the better but maybe under £100 if possible please. Any suggestions?
 
Why HDD though, why not an SSD? they are cheap now and more reliable than a slow whiny HDD. Surely your comic collection doesn't exceed 8TB.

You can get a Lexar SATA SSD for example as low as £46 right now on Amazon. With NVMe models and even 2TB for not much more.
 
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I was thinking more for capacity and price and reliability to be honest. Thought it would be a decent storage option. Didn't know about those ssds but I'll certainly look into it thanks mrk.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
Apparently ssd doesnt have long term data retention,. The drive i got is specced for 3 months of retention when powered off
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Hmm where are you seeing retention specs for your drive? Not seen any brands mention this in specs as per the above notes!
 
mrk said:
Hmm where are you seeing retention specs for your drive? Not seen any brands mention this in specs as per the above notes!
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Focus on that side note there, those retention measurements were assuming the maximum specced TBW reached already, so in a normal healthy drive, 3 months would not be the retention limit, which makes sense as have never heard (yet) of real world use data loss through retention timescales on an SSD/flash drive that's simply been unplugged for some time.
 
I'm just saying what it says on the note there itself, not being a negative, but just stating that outright saying SSD isn't good for archiving isn't entirely true since there is a criteria that retention is measured under. Nobody will ever be storing data on an SSD at maximum TBW, and as mentioned already, we have been storing data on flash storage for many many years without data issues.

HDDs can also lose data over time, all it takes is a knock or a magnetic field to corrupt some data..

The idea behind backups is to have disaster recovery in mind, so the backups themselves are backed up somewhere too.

Also, Having deployed SSD machines for years, some of which remain unused for 6-12 months at a time and boot up perfectly with no loss of data.
 
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I see both sides of the argument, but I see hard drives as better suited for long term data archiving. I can rip DVDs to a hard drive, knowing it'll definitely be there when I need it next - which could be months or years. Saying that, I've yet to go back to a USB flash drive and not be able to access the files on it, but I'm guessing there's a difference in technology on the memory chips.
 
as already said 1 copy is never enough
i go to extremes with important data and have 5 backups lol

never had a drive retention issue myself with drives
i had stuck in a drawer
but one of my backup strategies is to take 2 ssds offline
except when i want to add more data
by using the bios to isolate them
so would these still be powered?
and just marked by the bios as invisible
or could the bios actually disable power delivery to them?
 
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