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I recommend that whatever solution you go with, you ensure that you have ECC at the filesystem level to make sure that bit rot doesn't end up costing you data.

For instance, with ZFS, you can issue a "scrub" command which will trundle through the whole filesystem and double-check the ECC codes of everything stored on it, correcting single-bit errors it finds along the way. Running scrub every month or 2 months would ensure data is not lost.



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