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It's A Digital Disease!

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Massive-Lettuce-1630 on 2025-01-25 23:12:33.

Hey, I'm not expert and also don't know that much about these things, I'd really appreciate your help.

I have two options, SSD drives (not NVMEs, the laptop harddrive looking SSD drives.) And the regular desktop HDD that we all use.

I need just one drive to store some data like pictures and text files. I will keep it unplugged and only plug it like once a month for a few hours to move files there. I need the data to be fine for 10 years. (Realistically I'll probably change and get a new drive in future, but let's say 10 years for the sake of my understanding)

and let's say, in all the ten years, I'll only put about around 500GBs data in it.

Now, where I live, I only have options like, WD and Toshiba for HDD. And for SSD many ones like Transcend and all, but I don't think I can go to SSD that are from well-known brands because they'll cost a lot.

But still, let's keep aside the cost part, and can you tell me which one will be good for my case? SSDs or HDDs?

Thank you.

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