Comment by kace91
1 day ago
Half related question: what's a reasonable way to store long term memories nowadays? Pictures, videos, digital data in general.
SSDs as far as I know are known to fail when left unused, optic media degrades and readers become less common, cloud storage can be hit by account issues if you end up as a false positive for misbehavior.
Is there any "fire and forget" way of storing memories? Ideally something that can be updated regularly without much hassle.
This might not be correct really, but since my family has less than 1 TB of media to backup, I simply have three 1TB HDDs with copies of all the stuff. I got the HDDs out of all the computers I upgraded to SSDs.
That doesn't sound too bad, it's close to what I do now, but it's a bit cumbersome to keep them in sync as more content is generated.
LTO via LTFS is probably your best long term bet.
However, traditional spinning rust (multiple copies) is probably the easiest.
Sans DIY solutions, cloud infrastructure would be the costly alternative.
Home NAS, with data redundancy and filesystem with checksums. It's great because you can access it from any device and there is a ton of FOSS for it now
Careful! I bought a Synology NAS for this purpose and something happened w/ an apparently customer-hostile update bc the drive no longer mounts and forums are full of others complaining about Synology only supporting their brand of drives (?!) which possibility didn't even occur to me when I bought the damn thing.
Better to use a standard low-power PC with a bunch of HDDs as a NAS.
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