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Best choice for long term external storage? (lemmy.pt)

submitted 2 years ago by silas@lemmy.pt to c/hardware@lemmy.ml

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I'm looking for a trustful method for offline (external) storage. I used to save stuff in 4 GB DVDs because they are cheap, although have very small storage limit for nowadays standards.

If I go for external HDDs, I'll probably have to buy a NAS or something, so I'm considering go for DVDs again. Are they considered reasonably trustful?

Any suggestions, considering I'm look for a not very expensive solution?

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[–] zShxck@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

If i remember correctly HDDs have a lifespan of about 50 years, while SSDs only 10. So I'd suggest you to buy an HDD

[–] ccunix@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

If you all you care about is TB/$ you still cannot beat tape as long as you are using enough tapes.

It really depends how much you are talking about

[–] alex_02 1 points 2 years ago

I also have dvds that I use as storage sometimes. There are also m.2 nvme ssds and even USB drives that you can find for cheap. I still have many memory storage that I've had for a while. I'm not exactly sure if you are planning on having this storage always accessible, but I don't see an issue with DVDs. You can still fit a lot on 4 GB DVD and if you need something bigger there are a lot of cheap SanDisk generic USB drives you can get at like a Walmart.