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.
SLC drives would hold data for a very long time, but they are pretty much only available for industrial use now and come with an industrial price tag. Even MLC is going away, it’s no longer available in consumer grade drives and getting harder to find in enterprise grade drives.
That is true. I was shocked to see that mostly Optane SSDs with SLC are available nowadays (which are ‘too fast’ for archiving) and nobody else makes SLC anymore. A few years ago you could still find some.
Source: https://geizhals.eu/?cat=hdssd&xf=16325_1