Looking at storage options for some of my wife's photographic files i.e. an offline archive.
I had someone recommend I use something called an M-Disk - old school optical drive, but it seems setup cost might be prohibitive, and max storage size per disk is 100Gb?
Wondering if I should use a good old USB hard drive, USB flash drive, or an SD Card?
Thoughts?
OG pixel, not sure how long it will be supported, but thats the best way to go atm.
At that price point/use case I'd just get 2 cheap external drives and put it all on one/get your archive sorted then just copy it over. There's a number of free apps you can use to keep them synced if you make any changes or add anything too. Ideally RAID/NAS is best for pros but if it's just storing you don't need to constant connectivity (ergo increased cost) of those solutions
That plus a 1tb of cloud storage will be the most economical way.
my dirty mind read the title "Photographic" as something else :(