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Best cost effective medium to hoard data (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by [B] to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
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What's a good medium for hoarding data. Other than tape. Normally I use 2tb hdds but I am hesitant to Smr hdds now after needing the data recovered and how difficult its being. Would CMR be better? Flash Storage? Glitch or accidental formatting would remove any hope of recovering of a SSD. Don't need it for Casual Use just An easy way to store it with little risk to data loss and easy to recover if it does.

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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

A friend. Make your friend hoard data. And share it with you.

Otherwise large HDDs, at least 18TB, are most likely still the cheapest per TB. If you mostly write once and read much, much more, then SMR is fine. As long as it isn't in a RAID array that may have to be rebuilt.

SSD is, I think, better in all ways, except price and capacity. So SSDs are very bad for bulk storage.

Multiple backup copies on different media, stored at different locations, is how you reduce the risks of data loss.

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