I have about 100gb and growing that is critical for my business. File size growth is slow, so it will be years and years before it even gets to 200gb.

I have multiple local copies and a copy in google drive, but I want to leave a hard drive at my mother-in-law’s house.

I only want 2.5 form factor or smaller as my mother-in-law will be carrying it here when she comes to visit us on the city.

I’m not sure what the recommendation is. I’m not a millionaire, I’m just freelance. So, I’d like to minimize cost.

  • M500OPEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    Thanks, I was thinking about a 1tb my passport from western digital.

    I live in a third world country so my options are a bit limited.

    I’m not worried about her dropping the drive, I just don’t want to ask her to lug around a 3.5” drive.

    Are mechanical drive resistant to bit flips?

    • Helix 🧬@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      7 months ago

      Are mechanical drive resistant to bit flips?

      No, but they don’t lose charge over time, so bitflips are less likely if they lay around for a long time. However they are less resistant to mechanical failures, so it’s kind of a trade-off.

      If you use a sane backup software it should be able to just overwrite all the data making bitflips hardly relevant.