Definitely not the right place for this, but I’m yet to find the right place. I need an SSD/HDD that can store about 10 years worth of family photo and video. I was looking at that Samsung rugged SSD, but it’s a little above my price range right now. I’e like to have at least a terabyte for future photos so I don’t have to worry about this again for a while. Any reliable options?

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    1 year ago

    It depends a lot on how much space you’re using, how much you need, and the conditions that you’re storing the drive in.

    10 years doesn’t really say how many photos there are. It could just as readily be a very small number of photos, or a very big number of photos.

    If it’s just going to be sitting in a box on the shelf, an HDD could still work reasonably well, but if it’s going to be in a bag/bumped around, you might want the tougher SSD. The HDD still has the best price per TB value (may differ depending on your country/local market), but for 1TB, the difference is negligible (you’d be looking at maybe $10 - 20 total difference).