How to store and preserve lots of data?
Problem
I have many DVDs with movies and games, they are getting old and dusty, some of them are damaged. And I have more than 300 GB of general files in my PC. I want to store and preserve all of my data and keep them for a long long time. I want to know what is the best and more reliable storage media that I should use and... I can buy. I will copy all of my DVDs to a new media and throw all of my DVDs away. It will take a very smaller physical space. I think that everything that I need to store is currently 800 GB. I do not like optical discs, because they are fragile and I have lost many CDs and DVDs. Hard drives would be good, but they can suddenly stop working, and it is very expensive to recover data from a broken hard drive. Other questions: How often will I have to copy the files to a new storage media? Is it good idea to have another copy of each file stored in another storage media? Edit: If I put all of the movies and games in a HDD, if the HDD stops working, I will lose everythin…
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The simple answer is: multiple copies. Whatever else you do, don't trust any single media, location or service. Personally, I currently use external (USB-connected) hard disks for backup purposes. A 2-3 TB drive can be sourced quite cheaply and will provide you with plenty of storage capacity not just for the time being but also account for any reasonable future needs. At the physical size of roughly a large paperback book, it will easily hold the content of 200-300 movie DVDs without further c…
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