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NihilCredo posted:If you wanted to store an extra copy of your really important data in a bank safe (or a hole in the ground), and you couldn't afford tape, which storage medium is most likely to retain data integrity after many years offline? SSDs? HDDs? Pen drives? For a few years a HD would probably be okay from the list you mentioned, but they make stuff like the M-DISC optical disks for long term use. They haven't been around long enough to prove that they're that reliable, but nothing has. http://www.mdisc.com/
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QuarkMartial posted:Any suggestions for external hard drives? There's a near-constant sale on WD Easystore 8TBs at Best Buy. They're usually $199 but have been on sale from 159-179 (with a quick pre-black friday dip to 129). It's probably way more space than you need but it's worth considering. Alternately there's the small backup drives that have laptop disks in them for 50-100 bucks for 1-2 TB that are alright. The main thing about backups is making them automatic because people will never remember to back up as often as they should, but it sounds like you have that under control if you're going to get an online solution.
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