Are there any ways to keep them safe? Currently I have them stored naked in my underwear drawer
they sell these pelican case looking things on temu
Big enterprises, and government still do their periodic cold saves on magnetic-tape data storage.It just works.
>>106461876>naked in my underwearThey're cold. Clothe them.
MDISC BDXL if you can afford the horrendous price/GBLTO packed into desiccants if you can afford the initial cost of a drive (*that only R/Ws within a generation range)
I just put mine in an anti-static pouch and throw it in one of those air-tight plastic food containers with a silica sachet.
>>106462366>MDISC BDXLThose aren't real Mdiscs, Verbatim bought the name and slapped it on all of their Ritek rebranded Blurays and charges extra. The recording layer is so fucking thin it will get permanently marked if stored in a sleeve for more than 3 months.The only real Mdiscs are DVD Mdiscs.
>>106461876those are exactly the ones I use and my drives have been fine for years
HDDs are a dead end technology.
>>106462468concerning if trueWikipedia doesn't say shit either
>>106462569What do you use for cold storage?
>>106462698refrigator
>>106461876I have HDDs stored in those exact same plastic boxes and BDs I wrapped with plastic and tinfoil.I hope they survive at least a decade.Maybe it's a bad solution but it's the only one I could reasonably adapt.
>>106461950This, I was looking into long term (10+ years) datastorage, and found one of the most robust ways to store your backups was with LTO tapes, the writers have a substantial initial cost tho, but the tapes themselves, when compressed gives you a good ratio of storage space per $. The only caveat, from my understanding, is that they're not really built for many R+W cycles, so you cant expect to write daily backups to it
>>106462864>The only caveat, from my understanding, is that they're not really built for many R+W cycles, so you cant expect to write daily backups to itThey aren't suited to it, no. The intent is to segment your data such that what you're backing up can be stored multiple times on the tape. Each new backup is appended to the tape. LTFS has roll-back functionality that makes use of this behaviour to provided a rollback function.
>>106461950I'm sure they say they do but I don't believe they really bother doing it I just watched that video on some university that said they had tape backups and they hardly had anything on them
>>106462952>I just watched that video on some university that said they had tape backups and they hardly had anything on themDepends on the University, but relative understanding of 'hardly anything' could be the reason. I use LTO-5 tapes (1.5/3TB, 300mbit/s, £1.50 used certified, £7 new), and as a small business it's hard to fill the stack of fifty I bought. Most of them are unused, the rest are under 30% utilised. A university contracting HPE/Dell/Oracle could easily afford the £100/tape for LTO-9 media and end up with tonnes sitting empty. LTO-9 being 18TB/45TB 1.2gbit/s. Speeds not including LTFS overhead.
>>106463084https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKh5fNuj2-wIt was this video. To be fair everything wrong they could think to do, they did.
>>106462698stone slab etchings
>>106462247I should put my underwear on my hard drives?
>>106461876>Currently I have them stored naked in my underwear drawerkek same here. they are still working fine after all these years so I guess it's ok.
I use these that I got when I bought drives in bulk in a fire safe
>>106461876>>106462698Since you're being discreet by storing items in your underwear drawer, and assuming you are using 2.5" or 3.5" HDDs or SSDs, I would recommend using microSDXC or SDXC cards instead. You could tape these out of sight to any furniture on their own or even place them in a tiny plastic casing.
