buy cheap pc or raid storage device and archive to that. at least it will just power up and you can access over lan, so in ten yrs you wount be routing around for that legacy cable you need.
Hd has been my pref for over 20yrs ... 2x5TB external segate drives. I have had some losses but with error checking and pairs of drives , it’s usually recoverable.
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On 6 Apr 2021, at 12:23, rmluglist2--- via Hampshire <hampshire@???> wrote:
Hi all
I’ll spare you all the detail but I need to backup 16Tb to some sort of archive – i.e. unlikely to ever need it in a hurry. I know 16Tb is a lot for a “home” situation but I can’t find anything reasonable. Can anyone tell me if there’s an option I’m missing:
I’ve looked at:
* HDD (the cheapest and most fragile)
* Tape (the dearest but prone to mechanical failure) and
* Cloud (privacy issues and would mean an ongoing cost as well as a dreadful time to upload (16Tb over a 16MBps upload is no joke – and would mean a lot of checksums to make sure it was all ok once uploaded).
What I need to know is if I’ve missed an “obvious” solution? Is SD card reliable for long term storage.
Cheers
R
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