Question long lifetime ssd storage solution

[jule45]

Heya,

iam looking for a external storage for data.
Mostly pictures in raw format, personal data, aso.

I dont need fast ssds, or fancy stuff.
Iam looking for long lifetime (the ssd wont be used much so no probs with override)
Iam planning to buying 2 500gb~ (one for backup of the first)
Iam looking for a cheap (speed doesnt matter) and long lifetime( as long as possible) solution. If possible I want to keep em till rent and iam around 40 years.
I cant find good comparison sites (with this in mind) online (or maybe iam stupid idc)

any of you got some advice? thx in advance!

 

[USAFRet]

If possible I want to keep em till rent and iam around 40 years.

Entirely unsure what that sentence means.

But...buy from a quality brand. Samsung, WD, Crucial.

 

[jule45]

sorry didnt do the math*g storage solution around 30-40 years.

 

[USAFRet]

sorry didnt do the math*g storage solution around 30-40 years.

There is no way to predict "30-40 years".
Consumer grade SSDs have only been around for about 10 years.

If we look back 40 years ago from today, 1983, storage devices have gone through many generational changes.
Both in capacity and connection types.

You'd be hardpressed to connect a 1983 10MB hard drive to a modern PC. Or find much use for it if you could.


And I sincerely hope you're not planning on writing this once, and putting them on a shelf for a few decades. That will not work.

Your best bet is to update the data on these drives routinely. And change storage media as time goes on.

 

[Misgar]

OK, let's start the ball rolling with a few competing long term storage technologies.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pioneer-new-blu-ray-recorder-and-bdr-promise-100-years-lifespan

https://pro.sony/en_GB/technology/optical-disc-archive

https://www.techradar.com/news/the-advantages-of-tape-for-backup-and-archive

https://superuser.com/questions/284427/how-much-time-until-an-unused-hard-drive-loses-its-data

https://www.howtogeek.com/322856/how-long-do-solid-state-drives-really-last/#how-long-do-ssds-last

I've had dozens of hard disks die on me over the years and several cheap SATA SSDs have failed too. Now I'm waiting for my first M.2 drive and portable SSD to give up the ghost. It's only a matter of time.

I keep multiple backups of important RAW + JPG files on individual hard disks in desktop PCs, plus three multi-disk TrueNAS Core RAID-Z2 servers, various external USB hard disk drives, 25GB BluRay disks and 800GB LTO4 tapes, stored in several different locations.

Overkill, maybe, but when things go seriously wrong, e.g. ransomware, fire, flood, you can never have too many backups.

No way would I restrict myself to just two external (SSD?) drives in the same place and expect all the data to be recoverable in 10 years time, let alone 40.

Spread the risk.

 

[jule45]

@USAFRet : ofc data is not saved on only on the 2 drives- on main Computer aswell, and ofc i will rewrite them (but dont use regular)
(didnt thought about connection type in fute setups thats true)

@Misgar : for me looks like overkill*g but jea true- spread is better.

so in conclusion to that, for me a cheap and easy solution is save it (cheapest would be sata or a cheap portable ssd) and on personal Computer also. (maybe also a 3 Option, for better spread)
rewrite them maybe once a year, and get new ones after a few years plus start the circle new?

thanks so far guys

 

[USAFRet]

rewrite them maybe once a year

More often than that.
I would suggest once a quarter.

ofc data is not saved on only on the 2 drives

And we've had people here who desire to "save once, put on a shelf for XX years..."