SSD same capacity with hdd 2.5" about the same price
Which one will retain data longer as cold offline storage less often power on

Thank you

SSD of coz.. but HDD has this

friend, hdd and sdd mega different, hdd is very old meta, ssd is the current meta, the speed transfer is very different and super fast than hdd.

hdd was once use a lot during 2000 to 2012 / 2013 after ssd was install in a lot laptop / desktop.

Depends how often you mean by less often power on.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/...s_or_ssds_last/

For back up mirror purposes, I'd go HDD.

Whatever you get just power it on every six months, or at the very least check on it once a year. Ideally if you want to backup really important data the rule of thumb is to have 3 copies, 2 different media type, 1 offsite backup.

Go for HDD, if you don't want to be bothered about this.

No matter SSD or HDD, it might still failed. It's best to keep multiple backup regardless of backup devices.

Cloud if very important

If u want cold storage better go with optical storage

ssd

Purely data retention, definitely HDD. But, the most secure form of data backup is redundancy.

If just going to park it long time
HDD at least 2 copies from 2 different manufacturers

SSD if always cycle the power, can die of premature failure.

Please tell where to get that "SSD same capacity with hdd 2.5" about the same price". I wanna buy. Tolong.

My experience HDD damage faster than SSD if using daily.

But for long term storage (seldom power on), use HDD. My SSD lost data after 4 years never power on.

no matter ssd or hdd…get your power supply right then only we talk further.

Daily use SSD
seldom use, HDD

ssd n hdd same price? u sure bo...normally ssd is higher. hdd is old style storage using disk.

life span n durability of coz ssd and is run faster.

hdd the longer u use, performance keep dropping due to write n delete

You know many enterprise still use HDD right?
HDD wont die.

Got, those china cheap brand SSD, near same price

High chance is the ssd will die after 1-2 years while the HDD still working at 10th years.

Got many review, i don dare buy those cheap SSD, even not use as boot drive

SSD die - not recoverable

HDD die - still got chance to recover

LTO9 tape drive

My advice is not to buy any computer memory products from Chyna. Very high risk.

SSD is not suitable for backup.

Still better than malaisya....

Spinning disks for long term archiving.

try at own risk la..haha oem brand ssd...

scare lose back up... safer use cloud backup.
go for wellknown brand ssd, kingston, samsung, crucial,