Digital storage thoughts/suggestions

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Chris Janes

October 30, 2015, 02:20:49 AM
Greetings All!!
I'm looking for some suggestions on the best way for photo storage and back up. Having incured a hefty expense recently for data recovery of a failed hard drive that was less then a year old I've been trying to come up with a workable solution (that cut into a new lens or camera purchase :'( :'() My thought right now is to go with a RAID type system but my concern is having it stolen in a burglary or destroyed in a fire..etc..etc. I've also considered a combination of hard drive back up and a cloud based service such as Microsoft one drive, Google drive, or Dropbox.  Just wondering what some of you do for storage and backup?
Chris

scottcolbath

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October 30, 2015, 09:23:11 AM
Try these.



S.C.

Brian Corbett

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October 30, 2015, 01:28:03 PM
HAHAHA! Well played, Scott!

I use a couple WD My Passport Ultra external HDDs. 2 TB each, USB 3, and rather affordable ($90 or so). I keep one at home and one at work for triple safety.

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Bill

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October 31, 2015, 09:12:40 AM
For image storage I have a G-Technology Raid 1 drive array with two 4 terabyte drives. The G-Technology drive is more expensive than the consumer grade drives made by Western Digital et al. but the G-Technology drives are made for professional video editing and are much more robust than consumer grade drives. I don't keep an off site copy of my image files. Losing them would be annoying but not a disaster.

The internal drives in our computers are backed up daily using Acronis True Image. I have two WD 2 Tb USB 3.0 drives and each week I copy two weeks of backups for both computers to the WD drive that is at home then rotate it to my safe deposit box at the bank.

I have tested cloud backup and it is far too slow for image files. Try a test then calculate how long it would take to backup and restore a terabyte of data. If I were going to backup image files off site I would get two more WD 2 Tb USB 3.0 drives, copy the images to both drives then keep them synced to my RAID array using Free File Sync and rotate the drives off site weekly.

Bill
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