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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] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Any medium can fail, and if you need something and get it easily any other way you should have backups, not micromanaging which one fails more, CMR or SMR.

HOWEVER, when discussing cost effective and hoarding the best price/TB is by far for larger disks and larger disks aren't SMR, problem solved.

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

Is there a way to check? Like the 2 tb Barracuda, how would I know what technology it uses?