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Hi,
I wanted to Archive old code, VMs and server images from my home lab, thinking of copying to a hard drive and storing it. Also planning to archive old photos and videos to this drive.
Can the drive be left alone sitting in an external drive case for long periods of time without turning on? (Months, years..)
My question is does the hard drives be turned on time to time to keep it functioning?
I am tired of storing in Optical disks (DVDs, BDs).
Photos and videos (RAW files and now 4K video files) are the most that takes up space, I am in need to buying larger capacity HDDs. Instead of carrying over old stuff to the new one, I thought may be keep the old ones on the old HDD and use the new one for backing up new stuff until it gets filled up.
Any advice?
Thanks,
I wanted to Archive old code, VMs and server images from my home lab, thinking of copying to a hard drive and storing it. Also planning to archive old photos and videos to this drive.
Can the drive be left alone sitting in an external drive case for long periods of time without turning on? (Months, years..)
My question is does the hard drives be turned on time to time to keep it functioning?
I am tired of storing in Optical disks (DVDs, BDs).
Photos and videos (RAW files and now 4K video files) are the most that takes up space, I am in need to buying larger capacity HDDs. Instead of carrying over old stuff to the new one, I thought may be keep the old ones on the old HDD and use the new one for backing up new stuff until it gets filled up.
Any advice?
Thanks,