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Reddit mentions of Pro Storage 18
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Professional storage system for bare hard drivesFits inside a 2-drawer file cabinet or half banker's boxDesigned to hold any 3.5" IDE/ATA/SATA HDDProvides ESD and shock protection
Specs:
| Color | Red |
| Height | 7.5 Inches |
| Length | 15.5 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Weight | 2.17 Pounds |
| Width | 12 Inches |
www.amazon.com/Image-Mechanics-IMA904800F003-Pro-Storage/dp/B004PKUTT8 plus a bankers box of your choice.
Personally I have one of these:
http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-SuperSpeed-Docking-Station-Cooling/dp/B0055PL2YI/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1397139069&sr=8-6&keywords=esata+dock
And I built one of these for cheaper:
http://www.amazon.com/Image-Mechanics-IMA904800F003-Pro-Storage/dp/B004PKUTT8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1397139100&sr=8-2&keywords=prostorage
Stuff from here:
http://www.foambymail.com/PE2-_2/anti-static-polyethylene-foam-2-2lb-pink.html
And built inside a plywood box with a lid.
I keep the drives under my desk at work and take them home once a month to sync up the changes with my ZFS array.
Hard disks in storage should keep their data for many many years. In fact I have a 6GB HDD from 1998 that I actually tried booting the computer it was in (Win98) around 2 years ago and it it powered on and everything seemed to work fine. So that disk has lasted at least 1998-2012 (14 years).
Hard disks should last much longer than burned BluRay disks. Not sure how they would compare to tape though, but a tape drive is very expensive. I'm sure you could do research on how long drives without power last.
My backup itself is not redundant. I do keep checksums on my backup disks of all the files and verify them from time to time so if I did encounter bit rot or something I could replace the file from my array. The really important irreplaceable data I keep 3 copies of, but most of it is media that I could reacquire if I really had to (if it bit-rotted or failed to restore from backup for some reason) so I am OK with one non-redundant copy of that data.