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[–] Whoremaster2000 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

I've 10,000 + songs still on my play list from the days of Napster, 18-17 years ago which I downloaded in Europe while working in the Web industry.

I have over 50,000 family photographs which have been taken over 18 years here in the states.

I have housed and backed this up over many, many hard drives and other storage mediums over the course of 18 years. Still have them today on my current system.

Removable storage has been what has worked for me. I keep 3 copies of all my movies / photos / anything else that needs to be preserved for the future.

1 On my main device, second hard drive or drives dedicated.

  1. External Drive which holds the back up

  2. Either hard drive or external hard drive has a copy of both 1 and 2 drives and is stored at my office in fire proof cabinets.

This works for me, stay on top of your data, make it important and archive accordingly whilst updating your hard drives every 3-5 years bar a malfunction. I think short term, yes a bit of work, but it works for me and keeps me sound knowing I spend time doing this and my years of data, especially family photos are as safe as I can have them,.

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[–] 13517548? ago 

Napster era songs are pretty shit quality

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[–] uvb76 ago 

HDD last up to 40 years in ideal conditions so it's not the worst medium. I think the fear is that data kept in the digital realm may become unreadable in a cataclysmic event. What you are doing sounds like the most practical way to keep data offline in our current climate but what do you plan on doing if it gets worse? Hopefully you keep an air gapped legacy system around. I know I would like to build one but I'm running out of space. I was thinking of using optical and a legacy system that can at least read said optical. And printing out what can be printed of course.