Hello,
I am hoping to get some suggestions for long-term home network storage.
I currently have a LinkSys WRT1900 AC router with an unused USB 3.0 port and an unused USB/esata port.
This is my general use case:
-Transfer up to 100 GB to this drive every 6 months. This amount is completely variable, but 100 GB is a pretty good estimate for a max.
-Transfer likely to happen on only a few separate occasions. Anywhere from once per 6 months to 24 times per 6 months, likely the former.
-Copy data from drive only as needed. Likely at less than 10% the volume and frequency that data is added to the drive.
-Data will likely never be deleted from this drive.
-NOT interested in cloud storage, or remote access.
-Desiring a solution with maximum lifetime (probably constrained to HDD due to price). Transfer rate is secondary.
-Considering redundancy as Ideally everything transferred to this drive will be available for 60+ years in some form.
In a different thread I saw this drive: https://www.newegg.com/seagate-model-sthp5000400-5tb/p/1Z4-002P-00VD0?Item=1Z4-002P-00VD0 Seems like a good starting point for investigation.
Appreciate the help. Thank you for anybody who has input.
I am hoping to get some suggestions for long-term home network storage.
I currently have a LinkSys WRT1900 AC router with an unused USB 3.0 port and an unused USB/esata port.
This is my general use case:
-Transfer up to 100 GB to this drive every 6 months. This amount is completely variable, but 100 GB is a pretty good estimate for a max.
-Transfer likely to happen on only a few separate occasions. Anywhere from once per 6 months to 24 times per 6 months, likely the former.
-Copy data from drive only as needed. Likely at less than 10% the volume and frequency that data is added to the drive.
-Data will likely never be deleted from this drive.
-NOT interested in cloud storage, or remote access.
-Desiring a solution with maximum lifetime (probably constrained to HDD due to price). Transfer rate is secondary.
-Considering redundancy as Ideally everything transferred to this drive will be available for 60+ years in some form.
In a different thread I saw this drive: https://www.newegg.com/seagate-model-sthp5000400-5tb/p/1Z4-002P-00VD0?Item=1Z4-002P-00VD0 Seems like a good starting point for investigation.
Appreciate the help. Thank you for anybody who has input.