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Best choice for long term external storage? (lemmy.pt)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for a trustful method for offline (external) storage. I used to save stuff in 4 GB DVDs because they are cheap, although have very small storage limit for nowadays standards.

If I go for external HDDs, I'll probably have to buy a NAS or something, so I'm considering go for DVDs again. Are they considered reasonably trustful?

Any suggestions, considering I'm look for a not very expensive solution?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If i remember correctly HDDs have a lifespan of about 50 years, while SSDs only 10. So I'd suggest you to buy an HDD

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you all you care about is TB/$ you still cannot beat tape as long as you are using enough tapes.

It really depends how much you are talking about

[–] ulu_mulu 1 points 1 year ago

Traditional internal HDDs are the most reliable, on top of being cheap, you can put them in USB external boxes and use them only when you need to do backups.

A NAS is overkill if you don't have tons of data.