I have lost a large number of pictures due to "bit rot" on my older Samsung SSD, so this subject is near and dear to me.
I found this video:
Good video, Ironically I was under the impression HDDs were more durable electronically (not physically) for long term storage.
I thought SSD devices needed to be activated once in a while being its electrically charged storage vs magnetic HDD. I guess both do? I would think still an HDD for long term storage, like sitting in a closet unused would still be better. Yes, I see they make special purpose HDDs.
We currently have an OLD WD 500 mb HDD that works fine and it sits a year or two at a time.
Anyway as you may know we sold our home in record time, stupid fast, multiple offers the first weekend, contract in 2.5 days, closed within 30ish days, now in an apartment while we wait for our new home to be completed, months out near the NC coast.
So to stay busy I am finally going to get and organize 2 decades worth of photos which are a hodgepodge of storage between Shutterfly, the WD 500 mb HDD drive, another Seagate 320 mb compact HDD, and on the 4 desktops pictured, a laptop of two, and my Mac mini (which is much more organized) delete hundreds if not thousands of photos and save a few from each year on a drive, on iCloud and on Shutterfly and chose a few select photos from every year that I will print out for the day I am no longer on this earth with a reasonable amount saved on one HDD should it survive me.
Im actually excited about the idea so I can get rid of these old desk top CPUs once and for all.
One treat will be that I actually have some XRP digital coins on one of them, its been so long I will have to review how to move them about, along with the password safely stored someplace ( I also have my wife in charge of that one *LOL*) Its not a lot so not a big deal to lose them but enough to lets say buy a nice desktop that I dont need in dollar value. More or less it's more the challenge.
Anyway, at this point now, I see I can move everything off a desktop one at a time with the 320 MB Seagate I have not and onto the Mac mini, delete what I dont want, unload what I do want to print to Shutterfly, then, at that point have a new drive to save on a HDD.