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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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Best cost effective medium to hoard data (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I guess until I can afford that I'll Make copies with 2Tb dives. Would this be A good Idea?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It is a very good idea!