If i want to store a 20gb of information for like 10 years, should i store it on a ssd or hardrive?

if i want to store a 20gb of information for like 10 years, should i store it on a ssd or hardrive?

For sure. That's a lot to just write down.

just upload it to the cloud mate, then everyonje can share it

you definitely should

Are you high??

Yes

Solid state every time. Worry about future compatibility though.

Hard drive or tape deck assuming you aren't accessing it every other year. SSDs start to lo bits if they don't get power for long enough

Blu-ray Disc.

Optical media is the way to go if you wanna do long term. Just make sure nothing can get at it as optical media is a pain in the ass when it comes to damage. Just load up a bunch of DVDs for like $0.50 each.

Write it down on paper

Write 20,000,000,000 binary bits down on paper. I like your style.

Wait, my bad. He probably mean bytes.
That's 160,000,000,000 binary bits.

Put it on vinyl

Get a BluRay.

flash drive in triplicate would be the best/cheapest way.
HDD won't last. SSD won't last if you use it, probably will if you don't, but there are no 20yo consumer SSD with on-the-market equivalents, so its untested.
still you're rolling the dice.
real world solutions include magnetic tape and printing the data - as pixel dots. you depending on your printer/scanner setup you should be able to store over 200GB per sheet.

unless you get media marketed for 10+ year storage you can't be sure. there is a reason Cd/dvd/blueray manufacturers typically offer a 5yr warranty MAX on their products. even unsold.
the plastic "settles" over time, especially in heat (even room temp), wiping data which is recorded at marks or air bubbles in the media.

That's funny. I've got optical media I've been rough with that I burnt myself. It has lasted well over 15 years.

I can't imagine how you'd print the data out as pxel dots.

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Hard drive but refresh the data every 4 months (basically read every single bit - there's software to do this) to prevent magnetic field breakdown

Blu-ray in a 200 disc filing cabinet from Walmart. That's what I do.

All drives fail.

I'd say you'd probably want to put it in a RAID array and swap the drives maybe once a yer if you're not writing much to them. Longer term than that would probably be expensive. There's a way you can burn data into a synthetic crystal that's computer readable and lasts practically forever. Don't know much more than that, sorry.

yeah, me too. still you are taking a gamble with plastic media. also just because your stuff is working doesn't mean the data is not rotting. CDROMs and DVDs have the same kind of error correction mechanism, 8 bytes per sector. depending on what gets hit with how bad of a data corruption you typically can have bad data on your disk and use it just fine. (scratches for instance)
blueray probably has better error checking.

why not? it ends up looking like static.
just figure out the max resolution of your scanner and print the "pixels" that large.
easy to convert your data, I could write a script that does it in about 5 minutes.

>magnetic field breakdown
lol
i would take and old hard drve and cope the 20GB over to it until it was full, separate by folders or something. this way you can have bad blocks or sectors without loosing anything. doesn't protect against bad electronics though, I would also get a few micro SD cards, 32gb like what 10 bucks?, copy to them. encrypt to cloud. googles gmail cloud has been good for 13 years, not to bad. also put on a couple DVDs probably a couple different brands to be safe.

that or i would just babysit the data for the next 20 years making sure its good in at least two places.

bad idea since raid does not protect against bit rot at all.
what happens when your raid drive gets bit rot? well if it happens on the primary drive then that rot gets copied to the rest, if on another drive then it gets overwritten.

Pic sorta related. Mine is a silver carrying case.

GUYS.

NOT A SINGLE BIT OF DATA HAS BEEN LOST FROM ANY DISC OR DRIVE ON ANY NEW MEDIA IN THE PAST 8 YEARS. THAT SHIT IS A MYTH. BACKUP YOUR DATA IN 2 PLACES AND STOP WORRYING.

MY PORN IS LITERALLY ON A SINGLE 6TB DRIVE AND IT ALL STILL WORKS AFTER 4 YEARS.

>hard mode, you can't change the storage type / drive / files / bluray for 20 years

Also,

I use Winrar to create a compressed archive that's split up into files that are large enough to take up exactly one disc, so that disc space is not wasted.

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both won't last, maybe your government has a preferred filesharing site that they support or depend on, that will last 10 years

otherwise, DVDs