I just need to preserve some old data that I have on my computers, so I was wondering what would be the best way to archive stuff long term.

Blu-ray disks ? Multiple HDDs ? What do you guys suggest ?

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      I once lost a RAID6 to a faulty power distributor in a server cause (lost 5 out of 12 disks). RAID is not a backup.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        But 1 disk failing and the array braking aint either.
        This is about real time data not backup which should at best happen daily or bi-daily for really important data.

      • @Zippy
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        11 year ago

        Not a backup but nearly as good. All your data is located in one place which could result in a weird failure like you experienced it a fire/theft.

        That being said, in you case I can not imagine the platters being damaged. There should be ways to recover.

    • Bonehead
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      31 year ago

      After my experience with raid5 and the WD Green 2TB drives that were so fragile that the vibrations of 6 drives in the same case is enough to kill them resulting in 2 drives dying at same time wiping out my entire media collection…yeah, use raid6, with another server holding a raid6 array as continuous backup.