Ask HN: Best Storage for Large Personal Backups?

1 TB is not a lot, so the answer is probably snapshots to an external hard drive. Together with cloud backups, you have 3 copies of the data on different media and in different locations, which is very robust.

10x that amount and maybe you can start thinking about tape.

Previously, I used https://freefilesync.org/ to sync my digital life to external USB storage (now I use an equivalent script that's even more hands-free).

I recommend two drives (or more) of which one is always off-site, ideally not in a car due to extreme temperatures.

Of course, all drives should be encrypted with a strong key (use whatever suits you and your OS: File Vault, Bitlocker, VeraCrypt, LUKS, etc.). Encryption should be done in a way that the drive can be decrypted on a freshly bought computer if needed.

Depending on how much data loss you can accept, you can run a physical back-up weekly, monthly, quarterly, whatever suits you, just set a reminder in your calendar.

Thank you for the answers so far. However I wanted to ask which specific disk brand and models you are using or recommending.