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Let me repeat: "Hard disks are not supposed to sit on a shelf unplugged for extended periods." This even more the case with the very large capacity disks you a

Let me repeat: "Hard disks are not supposed to sit on a shelf unplugged for extended periods." This even more the case with the very large capacity disks you are mentioning here.

trebor 13y ago
If you archive disks like this, you need to run software like SpinRite on them ever so often to maintain them. I'd suggest that you do it every time you update your archive on the disks.
jrs235 13y ago
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, what about burning them to 50 triple or quadruple layer Blu-ray Discs (BD-R's) then store them in a fire proof safe? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_recordable
pjc50 13y ago
[citation needed] A lot depends on whether you're doing a backup or an archive; if it's a backup you'll be rotating the disks in periodically.
InclinedPlane 13y ago
Every month go fetch the old hard drives, copy all the new data onto them, then take the currently in use hard drives and put those back into storage. If you want more redundancy replace 2x 2x3TB drives with 2x NASes each with 3 drives in raid 5 or 4 drives in raid 1.