Data Hoarder

1 readers

1 users here now

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.

founded 11 months ago

MODERATORS

communick@selfhosted.forum

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

submitted 10 months ago by Mark2252@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Last_Excuse@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

In terms of actual use and access, CMR is much better. Flash would be better yet. Higher capacity hard drives are the most economically efficient option.

Mind if recoverability is a priority you'll have to avoid Helium drives. Also backups >>>> recoverability.