The whole "SSD's lose their data if they're unplugged" is a bit of a moot point especially if your plan isn't to bury it underground for centuries. That said personally I'd still go for HDD mainly because you get 4+ times the storage for the same price. If you only need a terabyte or so and the amount of data isn't going to grow then sure, SSD works just as well.
For back up storage I only plan to plug in occasionally is a SSD or HDD portable drive better for long term unpowered storage without data loss?
SSD drives have been getting cheaper, so been looking into it.
Donating $5/month to Kbin to keep the lights on? (kbin.social)
I was trying to work out how much to donate to Kbin to keep the lights on. I read somewhere it costs something like $1/month per user?...