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Old 11-11-2022, 07:34 PM  
wankawonk
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hard drives at home (even in RAID) are NOT suitable long-term storage devices

you'll get minimum 5 years before data loss, and realistically more like 10-20, but you will lose data within a couple decades. almost guaranteed.

Interestingly -- if you burn the data to write-only DVDs it will last at least 100 years on the DVDs. I believe this is the most robust long-term at-home data storage format.

that said....use amazon cold storage.
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