The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Evergreen16 on 2025-02-16 14:42:15.

Hi Data hoarder gang.

Since the cloud became a thing, I stoped doing physical backups (usually in HDDs and CD-Rs) for documents, family photos and videos and things like that.

The problem is that I have the files in multiple providers due to capacity or cost restrictions and, while losing data in the cloud is unlikely, I don’t like much the idea of a 3rd party controlling access to my data.

So, if this was the 90’s-00’s, I’d just pack a bunch of CD-R/DVD-R and have a collection of them in some corner of the house but, what’s a good choice nowadays?

I love the idea of having a NAS but I find it a bit overkill for what I need as I just want to cold store the data as a backup not for recurrent access (maybe it’s a good idea?)

Are there any type of discs, HDD/SDD, tape (?) that last long and are easy to maintain that you recommend? Or any other like DAS or NAS.

Thank you!