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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.
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I think this kind of conversation always needs to highlight the use case/cost. Like, if you just want to cache some content that you could re-download, aren't attached too emotionally, and get a used hard drive for a steep discount? I'd say go for it. Especially since there are generally better chances of indicating failure with hdds.
SsDs have an annoying habit of just dying, at least on me. No warning and no chance of recovering data. Maybe there a good use case out there where you would be willing to run that risk, especially if they are cheap enough, but most of the ones I can think of I'd just grab a new drive anyway, would have to be a hell of a discount .