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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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External vs Internal HDD for backup purposes? (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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An Internal HDD has the advantage that you can see your data safely all the time, but I'd think that storing the data on an external HDD in a cabinet, or somewhere safe place probably makes the HDD live longer. Is that so? Or not really?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Use internal drives with a dock and store cold. Saves the hassle of dealing with a bunch of cases and power adapters.

For fully on backup all the time use a versioned backup like time machine or a cloud service.