Burned disks are trash for longevity. I've had many CD-Rs that developed literal physical holes in the data layer or where the data layer simply flaked off after a few years.
I know this will be very much down to debate but I'm a great fan of USBs and external hard drives these days, their designs have come a very long way. I remember how horribly flimsy a lot of components and their connectors were back in the day with those gold teeth and they feel so solid now.
I like them for what they are good at, but hard drives are terrible for archive storage purposes. If you look at old school PCs, old hard drives almost never work. New ones are improved, sure, but there's still enough of the same design that will struggle to survive 30 years of storage. I wouldn't save anything on a hard drive as the only way to have it 10 years from now.
This is why transferring stuff and making regular backups is so necessary, all components deteriorate eventually. Had a moment with a relatively new m.2. SSD just recently and it reminded me to back up the leftover files I have on there so nothing important was left. I'm pretty sure it was just an amp draw issue though and I caused it to hiccup. I always work under the assumption something is going to happen and I'm very grateful when I do.
Burned disks are trash for longevity. I've had many CD-Rs that developed literal physical holes in the data layer or where the data layer simply flaked off after a few years.
I know this will be very much down to debate but I'm a great fan of USBs and external hard drives these days, their designs have come a very long way. I remember how horribly flimsy a lot of components and their connectors were back in the day with those gold teeth and they feel so solid now.
I like them for what they are good at, but hard drives are terrible for archive storage purposes. If you look at old school PCs, old hard drives almost never work. New ones are improved, sure, but there's still enough of the same design that will struggle to survive 30 years of storage. I wouldn't save anything on a hard drive as the only way to have it 10 years from now.
This is why transferring stuff and making regular backups is so necessary, all components deteriorate eventually. Had a moment with a relatively new m.2. SSD just recently and it reminded me to back up the leftover files I have on there so nothing important was left. I'm pretty sure it was just an amp draw issue though and I caused it to hiccup. I always work under the assumption something is going to happen and I'm very grateful when I do.
That's what RAID5 is for. My NAS has been going strong for well over 10 years.
Got any product recommendations for a consumer grade NAS for someone who isn't really looking to stand up a full fledged server rack?