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While hard drive lasts, the trouble of disk based storage lies in the filesystem. I'd recommend running ZFS for long term storage.

• mrguyorama 7y ago
  When do you predict Windows will no longer read FAT32? My first real computer was Windows 95b and that formatted FAT32 disks, and even my current 7 installation reads and writes FAT32 on flash drives
  • pmlnr 7y ago
    I was referring to bit flips and data corruption. Mirrored zfs can correct these, the rest of the filesystems can't. Flash drives are terrible mediums for backups unless you power them every month. When they loae charge they lose bits permanently.
    • mrguyorama 7y ago
      Do flash drives every "refresh" unmodified storage? I'm not super familiar with the behavior of cheap flash storage controllers