Comment by fbdab103

3 years ago

Nuts! I have been thinking of leaving an emergency encrypted backup in my car, but evidently that is likely to self cook almost immediately. I assumed the lifetime was not great, but that is far more aggressive than I had feared.

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sgtnoodle  3 years ago

Maybe use a 2.5" hard drive rather than an SSD? I can't think of any downsides for that purpose.

  • Dalewyn  3 years ago

    Assuming the car is actually used, an HDD would be subject to numerous physical stresses. Not exactly something HDDs like.

  • fbdab103  3 years ago

    I had some immediate disgust thinking, "Moving parts? I am done with those!", but I think you are totally right. The 2.5" hard drive is likely to have better endurance in the poor environment and repeated thermal cycling of a car trunk.

    Great idea. Hopefully I never have to try and read data from it.

    • sgtnoodle  3 years ago

      Yep, an unpowered hard disk will be rated to something like 250 g's of shock and -40C to +70C temperatures. You could put it in a sealed pyrex container with some silica desiccant and some foam padding. Just keep it from sliding around loose, and it should physically survive anything but direct impact in a collision.

cout  3 years ago

There are plenty of places under your car where you can securely mount a box to hold the drive, if you really want to do this, but there are probably better places to keep a backup than a moving vehicle.

  • fbdab103  3 years ago

    No argument that these it is not an ideal storage environment, but it costs little to setup. I do not want to rely upon the cloud, and I have limited access to off-site locations.

    Given unfortunate circumstances, I might lose the home one day (fire, burglary) or the car, but unlikely to be both.

myself248  3 years ago

You can get industrial SLC, it's just expensive and small. Pick your 8 most previous GB...