Giana opened this issue on May 16, 2026 ยท 10 posts
Lobo3433 posted Sat, 16 May 2026 at 9:56 PM Forum Moderator
I have set up multiple long term storage devices using external enclosures as well as off site locations and when looking at HHD step away from looking at regular desk top hard drives and start looking at server grade hard drives which cost wise are very similar as regular desktop drives but are meant to be used for longer term storage and built to last longer and do not degrade as quickly desktop HHD have a usual lifespan of 5 years some have been know to last longer depending on brand serve grade HHD lifespan is usually 10 years Seagate Iron Wolf and Seagate Exos are the only drives I use for long term storage and most modern PC can read data off these drives with no issue. I hope this info helps to some degree
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