I want to tuck about 100G worth of photos, music, and documents away in a safe deposit box. I'll be out of the country for a couple of years, without a house, and so on. I thought that a hard disk drive would be the simplest and cheapest option. I have heard recently that unless a HDD is spun up every couple of years that it may or is likely to freeze up. Does anyone feel that this is the case or is it complete nonsense
I haven't heard much about that, but if you value your data then you should store it on multiple mediums. A hard drive _should_ be fine as long as it's good quality and new. But for extra security, you should probably use another hard drive or DVDs as well. The good quality discs should safely store your data for that amount of time, the poor ones may not last beyond 2 years.
