Wingy@lemmy.mltodatahoarder@lemmy.ml•For back up storage I only plan to plug in occasionally is a SSD or HDD portable drive better for long term unpowered storage without data loss?English
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1 year agoSSDs have a write lifespan. Once you write ~400TB or whatever it’s rated for on a consumer SSD it dies. HDDs can take a lot more writes before dying.
What’s the best way to make an offsite backup for 42tb at this point with 20mbps of bandwidth? It would take over 6 months to upload while maxing out my connection.
Maybe I could sneakernet an initial backup then incrementally replicate?