Question long term storage media

[cloudff7ps1]

for long term storage of large files is better ssd or hdd (internal +adapter, external, hdd notecook +adapter) ? mdisc bluray and its drive are very expensive, in moment I don't have money to buy a lot of storage media

 

[USAFRet]

for long term storage of large files is better ssd or hdd (internal +adapter, external, hdd notecook +adapter) ? mdisc bluray and its drive are very expensive, in moment I don't have money to buy a lot of storage media

Looking back at the several other times you've asked this....what different answers are you expecting?

Multiple copies, on different media.

 

[Li Ken-un]

Cheap and long-term (archival?) are pretty much mutually exclusive.

 

[Misgar]

If you don't have money to buy a lot of storage media, stop acquiring new files and ration what storage space you already have. If you don't create any new files, you won't have to buy new media. It's a logical decision, if somewhat restrictive.

If you carefully conserve existing storage space, you can keep your current data until you no longer need some files and delete them to make way for new information.

You should save at least two (preferably three) copies of all important files to two (or three) different types of media.

Do not keep all your files on one hard disk, SSD, portable drive, USB memory stick, optical disc, etc. That way, if one drive dies or you suffer a ransomware attack, you'll still have another copy on different media. Spread the risk around.

I bought a bunch of old 3TB 3.5in server hard disks recently for $12 each. Even if some of them die tomorrow, I can afford to back up files to multiple drives for very little expense.

I also save data to second-hand 800GB LTO4 tapes costing $2 each. A full height tape drive was only $33 and the SAS controller card another $15. I purchased enough tapes to last me some time and if a few of them stop working, I have multiple backups on other media.

If you describe your storage needs in terms of Terabytes, we might be able to offer suggestions.

 

[punkncat]

^ along the same vein as above, you should readily be able to find stuff like 2.5" HDD out of older laptops that got upgraded. I had a stack of them not long back that I had to get rid of just due to the sheer amount of space THEY were taking up. I kept a couple of the big ones for backups.

As mentioned above, I have backup storage on optical disks (most of my music) on a couple of SSD, and HDD of the 2.5 and 3.5 variety, I have some cloud storage of really important stuff like pictures...and something that was a bit unexpected for me was a type of SD card that was used with photography a while back and picked up an entire box of cards for almost nothing. The funny aspect about that last one is that I don't even have a card reader FOR them once I got rid of my last laptop...meh, card readers are cheap...

Other things to consider a bit outside that box. You get 15GB of storage with a Google/gmail account. I am not sure how much, but MS offers a similar thing with the OneDrive thing they do. Google Photos will hold a pretty fair amount of pics, and particularly if you don't mind them being compressed just a bit.