It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Andreandrya on 2024-08-29 19:42:33.

Okay, help me work out some logic here

I read an external hard drive is only supposed to last 5 years so I bought a new one to back up my original which only gets plugged in from the shelf straight to the computer when I need to empty out my phone of photos so it is very lightly used and not carted around.

So I have copied all the data from the original onto the new one.

Now I am adding new photos.

Just leave the original on the shelf and add things to the new one at this point or now should I be copying all the data onto both? Or should I be taking the original and leaving it in a different location in case we have some sort of fire at our house?

What is a logical and practical thing for me to do here?

What do other humans do