Anything solid state (SSD) or a simple flash drive. The older spinning disk hard drives (HDD) are prone to long term failure sure to internal moving parts.
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Depends. If you're using it for long term storage and don't read and write to it often, then spinning disks are way more superior to SSDs.
SSDs are superior when you read, write and update files frequently and of course are more resilient to motion when in use, but in enterprise, HDDs are preferred for archival backups.
Very true. The capacitors in the SSD could dissipate if not powered long term. I don’t know if this time frame has been tested though.
I suppose it depends on Diana’s backup schedule. You could do frequent backups weekly/monthly to SSD then do a long term (archival) dump annually to a traditional HDD.
If you plan on connecting the drives to look at old pics or video you will be eating into your fatal read/write cycles on the HDD where the SSD would be superior.
Long story short, both will work with proper management practices. Something like a NAS or (home cloud) will give the drives some redundancy so if one fails, you have the data on the other drives. Then pop a new one in, it rewrites the data to new drive and you’re good to go.