Okay...I think I'm going to finally set on getting a HDD for my laptop. For my Music/Videos/and spare copies of my vocaloids and editors with a doc of all their codes. Than maybe I'll just get a yearly Onedrive of 100 GB for just my Word docs of my fanfics and original stories attempts (only like 1 complete novel...lol, and a halfway done one from long time ago)
There is a Toshiba Canvio Basic of 2TB I'm thinking of getting, but it's in Amazon. Or a 2TB Western Digital from bestbuy....I just need to remember my password...
There is a Toshiba Canvio Basic of 2TB I'm thinking of getting, but it's in Amazon. Or a 2TB Western Digital from bestbuy....I just need to remember my password...
synology nas is a very very good backup option, I'd just recommend to have another hard drive disconnected from power (a thunderstorm for example can cause problems).
and the "bit riot" of hard drive is correct, also being them a mechanical thing, is always better to make them run once every 6 months. thankfully, if some bits are being corrupted, most of times a media file (document, photo or video) can still be opened and viewed, and with utilities like crystaldiskinfo is possible to check how well a hdd is going.
I usually use hdd from Western Digital and Toshiba, never had any failed hdd. Only 2 times I had a broken hdd brand-new but because I ordered from amazon and the package was terrible. whenever possible, I always recommend to buy from a local pc store.
and I was curious about the "1 year life" of ssd, and actually tried on a mini pc with 1 tb ssd on it: kept it off for 1 year, kept at room temperature, and after 1 year, many system files were corrupted and some personal folders were missing.
I usually make a tier list of my files and then backup them accordingly:
tier 1) most important personal files (documents, photos, videos, anything that is really valuable and personal)
backup at least in 2-3 different external hard drives, plus dvd/blu-ray disc, free cloud storage (all encrypted in 7zip files) and buy new backup hdd every 3-5 years
tier 2) important files but that I can have them again (for example flac backup rips of cd audio, backup of blu ray concerts, pixiv image galleries of my favorite artists)
backup in 2-3 different external hard drives, some blu-ray discs and even some usb pendrive (the 128/256gb are very cheap, I know is not a safe backup option, but for that price it's ok)
tier 3) files that I have for convenience of not downloading them again (think of software setup files, game installs, ..)
backup in 2 external hard drives, usually I use older hard drive from tier 2 for this