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Is it better to use a hard drive or micro SD as backup drive?
I avoid keeping important stuff on my computer and keeps my backups of multiple flash drives. It's portable and only available when I need it. Having it on my computer all the time puts the data at risk.
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With that said, I prefer doing all my backups with HDD's first. Hard drive disks, if stored and handled correctly have a low failure rate when used strictly as infrequently accessed storage. Additionally, file recovery tools, if needed, are more easily available. The media is also much cheaper. I would purchase the full size hard drives, not the smaller portable laptop size drives strictly because those are also more prone to failure. Not that it matters to much but I would avoid shingled drives, which condenses the data, smaller drives don't really use that technology, but anything over 6 terabytes is starting to include it. Something in the 4 to 6 TB range is more than enough for most people and should cost over $100. I would back up everything on it, then put it away somewhere safe, since the biggest source of failure is dropping them.
If you just need a simple backup, that is small, portable, but not essential files, I would go with the portable SSD. In this case, you're probably only saving 500 gigabytes (half a terabyte) for the same price as the HDD, and might be using it infrequently. These don't have issues with dropping, but rather bit rot, although if bought from a reputable manufacturer, should be negligible.
In both cases, having no backup is better than no backup, and portability and cost will possibility influence your buying decision. If you're storing lots of data for years, go with the desktop hard drive disk (hhd). If you're storing smaller amounts of data, and are more interested in portability, and will frequently access it, then use the solid state disk (ssd). I would always avoid flash drives and sd cards for important backups unless I had no other option, in that case backup online if possible. This is just my opinion from experience over the past 25 years, I hope it helps though.
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