The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/VoltX77 on 2024-12-31 00:37:04.

Thought this be the best place to ask about this: My family has about 400GB of data with important photos, videos, and documents from the past 30ish years or so that has been constantly transferred from computer to computer. I couldn’t begin to tell you what is in this set of downloads and documents, but it has slowed down just about every device we’ve put it on.

That being said, this year I’ve elected to handle things differently - instead of transferring the data to our newest desktop, we’re gonna store it on 2 physical drives. The first is gonna be a simple 512gb USB stick, this will remain plugged into the new computer (for the once in a blue moon we need to access the files). The other will be an external SSD, which we will back everything up on, and save in a fireproof lockbox with other important documents until the end of time itself.

Okay so here’s my question - for the SSD, what is going to be our best option for keeping the data safe and uncorrupted? I’ve personally used Transcend as my go-to for storage devices ever since reading on a dashcam forum that they’re one of the most reliable sd card manufacturers, and they have served me well. However, for this SSD, I want to make sure I get it absolutely right, I could not care less about read and write speeds, this thing will almost never be used; its one job is to sit in a box forever and be ready to extract data from years down the road when the time comes. What do I get? Budget $100.