Every single one on Amazon regardless of brand has about 10% bad reviews and they all involve data loss! All I want is to be able to preserve the videos and photos. It is quite a pain to convert older analog videos in to digital format and I can not afford to lose them. I am looking for 2TB drive, so purchasing cloud storage is NOT an option. I suppose I could buy two different brands and back the data to both the drives and also have it spinning on the local computer to have the redundancy. May be that is the only reasonable solution. The drive would be used only occasionally to add to it once it is loaded with the archived stuff. That should minimize the chances of failure.
I do not believe that solid state drives would minimize my risk as I am really looking for very long term storage aka lifetime! At least hard drives do not die sitting on the shelf. The solid state drives have not been around long enough to know if they would rot or not. I could be totally irrational about that though!
I do not believe that solid state drives would minimize my risk as I am really looking for very long term storage aka lifetime! At least hard drives do not die sitting on the shelf. The solid state drives have not been around long enough to know if they would rot or not. I could be totally irrational about that though!