I am wondering which storage hardware is more reliable these days for storing data which I won't use for years.
I knew there was no immortal storage media. I am not asking for one. All I want to know it's which media is more reliable at present.
I have very bad experience with hard drives, and don't trust hdd anymore. The hard drive can easily have many problems, weak spindle, bad head, scratched platters etc.. Even if some online articles suggest HDD is safer than SSD in terms of storing data, I really don't want to touch HDD. Maybe HDD experts and recovery lab has more trust on these things because they can easily fix problems with some special equipment or by replacing spindle, head, PCB board. My problem with HDD is NOT magnetic field lifespan, I met scratched paltters problems and they can not be easily fixed or kinda not fixable.
Other than hard drives, the only options left might be USB stick and SSD. But when I do research, I fount out SSD might lose data when it's unpowered (not connected to power source) for one or more years. And I am not sure if USB stick has the same problem or not. Because online articles talk about SSD mainly in most cases. So far, I haven't met any data loss on SSD and USB stick in my life. Maybe I am just lucky on SSD/USB and unlucky on HDD.
Btw, even if some articles say SSD can lose data if it's unpowered for a week, some people argue that these concepts are not right and it's based on some extreme situation and will unlikely be a real life experience.
Oh, I forgot about TF cards, but I feel TF cards are similar to USB stick, but I might be wrong.
Btw, I knew the most important thing is doing backups. But I am wondering which storage hardware I should choose to store my data in the first place.
And I don't want to store my data online and want to keep them locally in terms of privacy.
Thank you very much for your advice.
