So excited to consolidate my mess of drives and get a big boost to my storage.
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Not as appreciated nowadays but I still use spinning disk for bulk media storage
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Just don't go all the way cold. Both SSDs and HDDs need to be regularly powered to retain the data stored on them over a span of years. As long as you occasionally access the storage volume, you're good, but if you're planning on leaving a drive untouched and unpowered for more than five years, the data might not survive even if the drive does.
For that kind of long term resilience, there's really only tape drives and optical.
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Obviously. I'm not actually recommending tape drives or optical, but rather that you simply do not leave your drives unpowered for 5+ years straight.
Optical might actually be an option for the most important data
Asterisks asterisks, I know :D
Tape drives though...I wish they would be more common and cheap.
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It's not necessarily the spin up that's the problem, but the fact that a magnetised bit doesn't last forever.
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Yes, but hardly because they planned on it. Don't use unpowered drives to store things! A safe bet is still a bet, data storage should not be a gamble.
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More or less how my setup is. Ssds in the desktop and spinning disk in the nas. I'm also impressed with how massive they've gotten over time.
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I'm just a massive data hoarder who refuses to use streaming services.
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Also great for storing lesser played large games, to transfer to ssd when ready to play again.
I just recently went entirely HDDless in my desktop. I have a singular 10tb HDD external drive that I connect as needed, but I'm considering just moving it over to my NAS since all it does at this point is store dashcam footage.