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Old March 10th 19, 12:12 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Default [OT] Hardware question: storage of portable drive

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As we all know, offsite storage of backups is an important component
of a secure backup strategy.

I have two portable drives, non-SSD type, with their own sealed
enclosures. Every week I do a full backup on one, take it to work,
and bring the other home, where I do the same full backup. But I'm
retiring now, so that's no longer an option. Uploading about 40 MB to
cloud storage, at the roughly 1 MB/s speed I get, would take almost
12 hours.

There's always safety deposit boxes, though they're not close by and
there's a cost. But since I have a detached garage, I wondered about
just storing the "off site" drive in the garage. The garage isn't
climate controlled, so the drive would be out of the weather but
subject to temperature fluctuations from 0°F to the 90s -- probably
not in the same day. :-)

Any likelihood that would cause problems? I know of course to let the
drive come to indoor temperature before using it.


It should be fine provided you "pack" it properly. Maybe put it in some
sealed plastic bag along with a little rice to capture any misc.
moisture is about all I'd do. What I can tell you is I keep a stack of
hard disks in my basement which fluctuates from close to zero to livng
temp depenind on if rec rooms fire (in basment but diff. section also)
is going. I never have any problem taking a drive out, putting it on my
special drive cable, plug in the USB and the drive appears and seems
fine.
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