• @thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
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      79 days ago

      Hard drives have longer shelf life than unpowered SSD. HDD are a good middle ground between SSD speeds, tape drive stability, and price they won’t go anywhere. The data world exists in tiers

      • @enumerator4829@sh.itjust.works
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        19 days ago

        The flaw with hard drives comes with large pools. The recovery speed is simply too slow when a drive fails, unless you build huge pools. So you need additional drives for more parity.

        I don’t know who cares about shelf life. Drives spin all their lives, which is 5-10 years. Use M-Disk or something if you want shelf life.

        • DFX4509B
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          18 days ago

          Tape is rated to a 30-year shelf life under ideal conditions.

    • Echo Dot
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      010 days ago

      Right up until an EMP wipes out all our data. I still maintain that we should be storing all our data on vinyl, doing it physically is the only guarantee.