I want an eternal iron-clad futureproofed EMP resistant hard drive to back up my life work.
What should I get?
Upload it to the cloud. Its obviously safe in there :smug:
you could buy one of those 1tb portable storage devices and lock it up at somewhere else. If are super crazy about losing your files you cab buy 2 of those hard drives and lock them up at separate locations.
Pure genius.
So if I copy those files into the hard drive and never use them anymore, they'll not be broken?
I use google drive, cloud storage is insanely good.
there's no such thing as a perfect solution for backup, but if you want a "Flawless super impossible to fail" solution I suggest running cloud storage on a raid 1 set up if you're that cautious, on 2+ 1tb hdd's, then have an occasional backup to a separate external drive. That's the BEST I can think of. If your computer suddenly bursts into flames or gets lost, you still have the external drive, if that gets lost, you still have cloud storage. With raid 1 if one of the 1tb internal drives fail you just pop another in and set that as the new one.
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of course, all you really actually need is cloud storage and an external drive and that's it, really, since you just, redownload from the cloud if you need the backup.
But what about when we get into world war 3, and intercontinential internet is lost. I cant reach my cloud then
Do you know of any hard disk type and brand that seems to never get corrupted of fail?
[QUOTE=hakimhakim;49719105]But what about when we get into world war 3, and intercontinential internet is lost. I cant reach my cloud then
Do you know of any hard disk type and brand that seems to never get corrupted of fail?[/QUOTE]
you could store everything on massive tapes and then store them deep underground in a salt mine in 17 separate locations if your porns really THAT important.
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Thats a great idea but we dont have salt mines where i came from
Between HDD and solid statevdrive, whic would you suggest for long term storage?
If you rid the worry of an emp, theoretically eirher a ssd or hdd should survive at least 10 years maybe more if you double bag it in antistatic and vacuum sealed bags. If youre that worried about an emp, do the same thing but build an extremely thick and tightly meshed faraday cage, dig a deep hole and put it underground. Just dont forget where you put it.
Thanks. This thread is so very informative.
My legacy will go on.
[QUOTE=hakimhakim;49719105]But what about when we get into world war 3, and intercontinential internet is lost. I cant reach my cloud then
Do you know of any hard disk type and brand that seems to never get corrupted of fail?[/QUOTE]
If your data isn't in at least 3 places, you don't have it. Cloud is an excellent place to store one of those three copies.
Besides, the way I figure, if there's a situation where I can't access the internet in the long term, I have much, MUCH larger problems than computers. Like trying to find food before the raiders get here.
Depending on how much your willing to spend you could put it on Amazon S3 it works out cheaper then most other cloud based systems providing you don't constantly add or delete files, most of my major stuff I back up to Amazon S3 & Glacier (For stuff I store and never need to really view / modify)
[QUOTE=hakimhakim;49719182]Thats a great idea but we dont have salt mines where i came from
Between HDD and solid statevdrive, whic would you suggest for long term storage?[/QUOTE]
that's why you store several in these locations
1. Some shitty town in some obscure russian mountains
2. Ancient Chinese cave
3. In the middle of the Alaskan wilds
4. Miles under the ocean in a deep storage tank
5. On the moon
6. In 7 different cloud storage drives
7. in your basement on some shelf
For the best in long term storage, use LTO (magnetic tape). If you archive them properly you can see an easy 20 years out of it. Expensive, and slow.
SSD (Flash Media) is good for where speed is critical for your application. You need to monitor their health closely, and when they fail its usually complete failure. Watching their attributes is pretty easy as their SMART attributes will often list out remaining health.
HDD (Mechanical Media) will be largely hit or miss. It is the cheapest choice in storage. High capacity, high failure rate. Decent speeds. If you got the extra cash, spend the extra money on a WD-RE or Red series disk. I have a WD120 disk that is 13 years old (10½ years in a powered on state). I also had a WD black 500 die at about 25k hours. So your milage will vary with mechanical storage.
The largest pro to mechanical media is that data recovery is still very possible.
Optical (CD,DVD,BR) is expensive, slow and low capacity. Not intended for archival. Very vulnerable to the environment. Just because that laser disc is good enough for Grandma, doesn't mean its good for you backing up your data on.
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