question about "bit rot"

[Dan Lester]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Again, I had to be a broken record here, but using a NAS (Synology units, for example, use BTRFS) to archive, including hardware and "bit rot" redundancy, seems like the way to go here, not a tool to run checksums on your drive.

Thank you. You're exactly right. But NAS systems will set you back a few hundred bucks. I was just wondering if there could be a lower cost strategy for the non-business user that would ensure archival security for unchanging data. Ideally just an app that works on consumer-level drives.

For a few hundred bucks, I could just burn half a terabyte to M-disks.