I just need to preserve some old data that I have on my computers, so I was wondering what would be the best way to archive stuff long term.

Blu-ray disks ? Multiple HDDs ? What do you guys suggest ?

  • taladar
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    1 year ago

    I once lost a RAID6 to a faulty power distributor in a server cause (lost 5 out of 12 disks). RAID is not a backup.

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      1 year ago

      But 1 disk failing and the array braking aint either.
      This is about real time data not backup which should at best happen daily or bi-daily for really important data.

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      1 year ago

      Not a backup but nearly as good. All your data is located in one place which could result in a weird failure like you experienced it a fire/theft.

      That being said, in you case I can not imagine the platters being damaged. There should be ways to recover.