After 30 years of computers I'm finding them scary again

[Midnightwalk]

7. Just the backup.

I have 1 dvd gathering dust that i plug in maybe once a year.

I could probably figure out how to use one backup drive, but haven’t bothered. I have 3 at the moment, but am only using 1. Cheap enough for me to like having a backup per machine

Btw I saw you prefer spinners and wondered about replacements. I think they’ll remain available for high capacity users for a while but the costs are getting close. They are shipping ssds with sata interfaces though, so there should be compatible replacements available even if they don’t spin. So long as sata interfaces are available.

I think nvme will be standard on everything new, but slapping a sata interface onto a drive is easy enough for a vendor so that you should he able to get replacements for quite a while. A block is still a block...