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Long storage life curiosity (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey guys, I just had a curiosity on the multiple ways of storaging stuff and how long would that hold, take backing it up to a newer storage after some years out of the table.

So how did this come in my mind, I was just reminiscing about how I used to play games with inserting a CD or Cartridge onto the device and how I miss that flavour.

I would like to do it again, I already like having my games dependancy free (praise mr goldmountain), and I am saving up some money to spend on hoarding possibilities. I would like to know what would have the longest storage life, would burning games into bluray discs be too unhinged or is something I am missing?

Thanks in advance in helping me out witht his brainstorm.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Adding to this, what would be the best way to store videos, pictures and music over a long period of time?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

get a nas for you primary storage... SSDs raided for that sweet redundancy. . replicate that to another identical, stand alone nas. replicated that to a cloud provider. problem solved. kinda pricey.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

SSDs need to be powered periodically to not lose bits to the cells losing trapped electrons. For offline storage HDDs are a better option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

eh, i didnt mention any offline hardware

but now that you mention it, i have a 'bug out' bag with 12 spinning rust drives with an old backup in case i need to leave the house in a hurry.. but i admittedly rarely update it

just easier to grab the nas nowadays...

what i mean bv 'stand alone nas' is that is should should receive the same data, but not be dependent on any upstream device to re-serve that data

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

eh, i didnt mention any offline hardware

Sorry if my comment came over as criticising your approach, I just wanted to add that information if someone wanted to use it. What I wanted to say is: if you have a NAS, you need to have reliable cold storage which is not SSDs.

12 drives in the go bag seems a bit much, as I don't think the weight to usefulness ratio would be great if you really needed to leave the house in an emergency.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

yeah, i hear ya on the inefficiency... the 12 drives were just what i did with my old drives. i didnt really have a use for them, didnt really want to dump them so i repurposed them into an old foam lined pelican case. highly recommend those cases.

not really realistic with data density approaching ridiculous.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

For me a single 2TB 2.5 inch external HDD in a shockproof case and a 1TB SSD contain all of my most important data (mostly scanned documents and personal media like photos, phone backups and letters). I have a Syncthing folder which syncs to my phone and is mirrored to the SSD once a week, while the HDD is used as a restic target. I don't want to lug around 3kg of disks when my house is on fire, war breaks out or an axe murderer chases me.