Question whats your long term storage in critical fields and use cases: SSDs vs HDD?

[thedighubs]

good evening dear friends

I was looking at Amazon and some electronic distributors for a long term cold storage device.

Well - belive me: traditionally I've always gone with HDD but since SSD prices have dropped significantly, So i'm wondering if it is worth going for a SSD now?

question: well what do you think

- i am trying to get an update of current state of the storage technology and also seek to find answer for wheather i should make backups to HDDs vs SSD.

background : well some insights into my current Situation: I have around 750 gb of Family photos from 2017 on a Western Digital external HDD, it lasted for 8 years and data is well and good right now. (fingers crossed ).
But now i am a bit frightened. I already have backups on another machine and the external HDD. It's now time again to migrate my external HDD to new Hardware; thats what i am thinking over - day by day: and I am conflicted on what should I choose moving further.


so the question is: whats your long term storage in critical fields and use cases

what do you reccommend!?

look forward to hear from you guys..

 

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