For me I had a stack dvd blanks left over, I decided to save a little bit of money and used them to back up folders of childhood photos, documents etc and place them inside their own jewel cases.

I do have a 2TB external HDD, But that I throw on LARGE steam game back ups and movies.

Sure, the “cloud” exists and I use that too but what if your intewebz goes down, good luck getting your backups until it’s back up.

What do you use? Optical media, tape drives etc?

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    2 months ago

    Storing 60 tb in deep glacier for a year is about 3 grand.

    Retrieving it from glacier is 4 grand, and it incurs five grand in transfer costs.

    Backblaze B2 is closer to six grand a year but doesn’t have any egress or transfer fees.

    The problem is, at those prices I could just buy discs in a nice pelican case, every year.