I have about 100gb and growing that is critical for my business. File size growth is slow, so it will be years and years before it even gets to 200gb.
I have multiple local copies and a copy in google drive, but I want to leave a hard drive at my mother-in-law’s house.
I only want 2.5 form factor or smaller as my mother-in-law will be carrying it here when she comes to visit us on the city.
I’m not sure what the recommendation is. I’m not a millionaire, I’m just freelance. So, I’d like to minimize cost.
No, but they don’t lose charge over time, so bitflips are less likely if they lay around for a long time. However they are less resistant to mechanical failures, so it’s kind of a trade-off.
If you use a sane backup software it should be able to just overwrite all the data making bitflips hardly relevant.