I recommend to buy a portable hard drive (not ssd) and backup all your data there. The problem with ssd is that they can lose all data if they stay without electricity for about 1 year. for the price of onedrive 1 year you can get a 5 TB portable hdd, then you can use some free space from cloud storage like google drive and mega, which offer 15gb and 20gb if i'm not mistaken. have multiple backup (also on dvd and blu-ray) is very important, never rely on only one option ^-^
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I just wanted to add more info about HDD, is that harddrives "will" lose data over time regardless of how expensive or how well they build, it's not completely 100% back-up. Any data stored magnetically will not last forever, bits can flip any time. The material itself used on the platters for storing data can and does deteriorate over time, just like everything else.
Most today standard HDD come with SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
It's part of the firmware that does perform various tasks on the drive. Drives use error correction to constantly cope with flipped bits on the fly, but it would impact performance to rewrite bits that have lost their magnetic orientation, so they stay until you rewrite the data. The error correction can actually cope with a substantial amount of flipped bits and the process stays invisible to the user (but may be found in the SMART). Only when it exceeds its capabilities, will you actually encounter a read error.
That said, i never experienced bit failure or complete data loss (yet) but it's not a foolproof. The chances of your HDD gone wrong are low but not zero.
Any data stored on HDD should be read and validated at least once a year along with a second copy, should part or all of one disk goes bad. Drives will die for any reason at any time. Having valid backups is your only real option. (Replace a new HDD every 5 years or 10 years is a good idea)
Most today standard HDD come with SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
It's part of the firmware that does perform various tasks on the drive. Drives use error correction to constantly cope with flipped bits on the fly, but it would impact performance to rewrite bits that have lost their magnetic orientation, so they stay until you rewrite the data. The error correction can actually cope with a substantial amount of flipped bits and the process stays invisible to the user (but may be found in the SMART). Only when it exceeds its capabilities, will you actually encounter a read error.
That said, i never experienced bit failure or complete data loss (yet) but it's not a foolproof. The chances of your HDD gone wrong are low but not zero.
Any data stored on HDD should be read and validated at least once a year along with a second copy, should part or all of one disk goes bad. Drives will die for any reason at any time. Having valid backups is your only real option. (Replace a new HDD every 5 years or 10 years is a good idea)
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I auto-backup my computer up to a Synology NAS with a couple of 8TB HDDs in a RAID type configuration to get around some of those issues. They're always powered, each drive holds a full copy of the data, and it will alert me if one goes bad, so I can just slot a new one in and it will recopy the functional drive to the new one. (I also occasionally upload my music projects to an Amazon S3 bucket to account for natural disasters.)
If we're talking about upgrading an internal drive in the computer, you can get USB adapters that will connect to a SATA drive so you can use them externally. M.2 drives are a bit more of a pain, I think.
If we're talking about upgrading an internal drive in the computer, you can get USB adapters that will connect to a SATA drive so you can use them externally. M.2 drives are a bit more of a pain, I think.