I have a Seagate laptop hard drive. Relatively new, power on about 500 hours. I am planning to use this drive to store old backups of my C drive (over 2 years old).
These backups would be nice to have but aren't the most valuable thing in the world. I access them maybe once in 3 months. I want to move them off my primary data drive because they take too much space in the first place and they take doubly as much space on the backup of that drive.
I am planning to just leave these in cold storage and not touch them for a long time. Basically like a time capsule of sorts. Can anything happen to a unused hard drive?
My current backup schedule is once a day incremental to primary data/backup drive, and once in 2 days incremental to secondary backup drive. Once a month full for both. My old backups are taking up a lot of space I can use for other more valuable things so I would like to offload them out of my backup chain.