1. Don’t digitally store your files
(document, photos, and videos) in a proprietary format.
Use open
sourced ones.
2. Regardless of the quality, type,
temperature of storage, it’s inevitable that ferromagnetic depolarization kills
hard disc drives (HDDs) and SDDs; it kills them slowly, but surely; it does so
in a process similar to how magnets lose their magnetism overtime.
The
thing that ferromagnetic depolarization doesn’t kill is optical storage, aka
CDs.
3. Archive data that you:
(i) created;
(ii) spent
a lot of time on;
(iii)
get anxious over thinking about the possibility of losing it
4. Your first choice of optical
storage should be M-discs; if there aren’t any, take Vebratim’s Blue ray BD-R
25GB×6 discs.
If you
are going to archive on blue-ray, use commercial blue-ray discs burners instead
of consumer blue-ray discs burners for more reliable results.
Archival
optical discs are in a middle point of durability & affordability to anyone
wanting to archive their data.
Blue-ray
writer/burner drive to burn/write data on a blue-ray disc.
5. Remember the “3-2-1” rule whenever
archiving data:
3 copies
of data, on 2 types of media storage (optical, flash, paper, etc), with 1 copy
off-site for disaster recovery..
Also
remember “2 is 1, and 1 is none”; always assume your last comy is on the verge
of having some kind of critical failure and being lost to time.
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