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Shame on Microsoft for being a shit company.
However, I don't recommend backing up to OneDrive, but if you must, you should encrypt on your local machine first. Also, keep a physical backup. Current situation not withstanding, external SSDs are reasonably cheap.
They're still not out of reach for most people, but the prices are crazy now. A Crucial 1TB that was $70 last August is more than double that now. That said, most people's data is worth far more than that.
my 4tb SSD i bought 4 years ago for about 150 is now over 2k. It's insane some of the pricing is now.
SSDs are horrifyingly priced now! I picked up a Samsung external 1TB for 90 last year, over 200 now. I wish I had bought more… it took me FOUR TRIES ordering drives to get a… mediocre deal last month. Still over 300 for a 4TB NVMe! Three cancelled orders before I went to a store in the meat world and they had some. Insanity.
Felt this 😭😭😭
I bought 4 1TB drives way back around like 2020-2021 I think, and it was a little under $100, which I covered with an amazon giftcard. It's been running lovely in my mirror zfs raid for about half a year now. Okay well the shitty Orico drive bay has caused some overheating but otherwise the drives themselves are fine.
Now, like 1 of those drives would be about $70-80+ at cheapest...
You shouldn’t be using SSDs as backups.
I believe that was the advice in the early SSD days, and likely still applies for high write commercial environments.
However, modem SSDs are fine when used in a typical home lab set up.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's my understanding.
Nah, still shouldn’t use them for anything other than backups that you need to access frequently, and that’s only cause their speeds make that better. SSDs don’t like sitting around not being used, and can just drop dead at any time, whereas HDDs generally will show signs of failure long before they actually die.
I wouldn't buy an SSD for storage like that. It's more expensive than a hard drive, for being faster, but this is not your OS drive, you don't need that added performance. hard drives are plenty fast when you are just using it casually, without your operating system and various installed programs actively using it for lots of random reads. they are capable of 100 MB/s reads and writes, as fast but often faster than a gigabit internet connection, which is the maximum a common computer can handle. unless you got a HDD with SMR tech, which will become slower when used as an IT pro, but unless you use it in an array or you write extreme amounts to it at once, it's not going to be a problem.
Besides, SSDs also lose their data quicker when left unpowered for a long time. I really think they are a bad, ill-considered choice for that task. a choice driven by adverts.