McGyver Posted October 4, 2020 Report Share Posted October 4, 2020 What media is preferred for long term storage? Using 6T passports now, but question their longevity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wb6vpm Posted October 15, 2020 Report Share Posted October 15, 2020 On 10/4/2020 at 4:36 AM, McGyver said: What media is preferred for long term storage? Using 6T passports now, but question their longevity. I have the following setup using Microsoft Storage Spaces to set it up in parity mode for redundancy, which with the parity space loss of approximately 33%, I have a bit over 24TB of storage space (remember that 8TB drives are actually closer to 7.25TB when properly calculated). 1 x USB 5 bay drive enclosure (they also make this in a USB-C version if your computer has a C port):https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0734G79FW/ 5 x WD Red Plus 8TB drives:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D3MWMNZ/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PiusX Posted October 29, 2020 Report Share Posted October 29, 2020 The best is separate HDD to store the downloads and that will be where you will run the files from when needed. Don't keep it all on the same drive but move the files because should the drive fail from the usage as it will all downloads will be wiped clean and for SSD there is no recover possible if that happens. If you do have a tower or such having extra large HDD is the best storage methods and allows you to know where they are at. For portable HDD that is a question of too much movements and that could cause data loose as well or dropping could result in HDD failure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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