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Long-Term Data Storage for Home Users

Data preservation for home computer users, covering cold media data retention, and required refresh actions, for hard drives, SSDs and flash drives, and optical media. Plus discussion of long-term cloud storage, and family storage audits. You may find relevant the following content: Cyber Security: Back-ups & Encryption: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEP9GTs1lZs VeraCrypt (for creating encrypted containers for cloud upload): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XshQWFLfwdAQ REFERENCES Digital Preservation Handbook from the Digital Preservation Coalition: https://www.dpconline.org/handbook Digital Preservation Guidance Note from UK National Archives (2008, historic): https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/information-management/selecting-storage-media.pdf LTO World Desktop Tape Drives: https://ltoworld.com/collections/desktop-lto-tape-drives CLOUD STORAGE Amazon AWS S3 Glacier: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/storage-classes/glacier/ Microsoft OneDrive: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/onedrive/ Google One Plans: https://one.google.com/about/plans You can find all of the ExplainingComputers videos on security and backup on this page: https://explainingcomputers.com/security_videos.html More videos on computing and related topics can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/@ExplainingComputers And more videos on film and other making, plus retro tech, can be found on my Christopher Barnatt channel: http://www.youtube.com/@ChristopherBarnatt Chapters: 00:00 Titles & Intro 01:26 Storage Media & Resilience 03:48 Media Selection & Data Retention 13:19 Preserving Your Data 14:44 Family Storage Audits 14:44 Action Plan #archive #backup #storage #long-term #LTO #hdd #ssd #optical #tape #ExplainingComputers