Recent content by Dlass

Fair point about passwords. My passwords are in a protected file, and in a safety deposit box at the bank. No one will get them. My normal backup is with SuperDuper, which uses CRC32 checksums. $50/week is VASTLY more than I'm willing to spend on data protection. The issue is what economical...

Ouch. Those SAS-USB adapters are a hundred dollars or more! I should add that if I'm serious about archiving, getting hardware from Ebay or Craigslist might not be smart.

Thanks, LunarMist, that sounds like the optimal smart near-term approach. I also appreciate the info about LTOs. I need to do some research on those. About those LTOs, I need to ask - what is the interface? The halfway economical ones I see advertised don't tell you that. Are these all USB?

This is getting off-topic. Nobody said anything about hundreds or thousands of years. I just want to do better than the decade-ish lifetime of CDs and thumb drives. For that matter,it is alleged that lifetime-wise SSDs are somewhat better than thumb drives, but I've never see evidence for that...

Wow, that's kinda pricey, and I need to get multiples? Geez Louise. Also, to the extent it goes obsolete, there will be fewer of them around in the distant future. Also, LTO capacity is tens of TB. I need a few hundred GB or so, so it's kind of overkill. I'm thinking that BDXL M-disks might be...

So I'm looking at archival storage options. I don't mean years. I mean decades. Many decades. CD media is good for 10 years, under good storage conditions. SSDs tend to start degrading on that same timescale. Data on regular hard drives may last longer, but then you've got to worry about the...