I don't hold any precious metals even though I kind of like the idea, however I don't get silver. It's nice and all but not nearly valuable/rare enough to make sense as a store of value. And of course it's also, for the same reason, impractical. Stashing away some gold coins is easy, including on ones person. Doing the same with silver, that's another story.
Silver is pretty good
But I hit the 1978 run up
This years runup
And one a few years back.
It's easier to buy and small amounts are very unlikely to be fake pieces.
The down side. Size and weight.
I NEVER go past 1000 oz on hand and 1000 oz is large and heavy.