What’s a good medium for hoarding data. Other than tape. Normally I use 2tb hdds but I am hesitant to Smr hdds now after needing the data recovered and how difficult its being. Would CMR be better? Flash Storage? Glitch or accidental formatting would remove any hope of recovering of a SSD. Don’t need it for Casual Use just An easy way to store it with little risk to data loss and easy to recover if it does.
Any medium can fail, and if you need something and get it easily any other way you should have backups, not micromanaging which one fails more, CMR or SMR.
HOWEVER, when discussing cost effective and hoarding the best price/TB is by far for larger disks and larger disks aren’t SMR, problem solved.
Is there a way to check? Like the 2 tb Barracuda, how would I know what technology it uses?