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Best Long Term Storage Solution, Videos, pics etc?
Posted on 10/7/14 at 5:51 am
Posted on 10/7/14 at 5:51 am
Seems like using a GoPro with SD cards sucks up a lot of storage area. Should I consider a short and long term storage system?
Someone suggested an outboard hard drive for this? That sound right?
If not, what?
If so, any suggestions?
Someone suggested an outboard hard drive for this? That sound right?
If not, what?
If so, any suggestions?
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Posted on 10/7/14 at 7:14 am to Grassy1
Just get a multiple TB External hd. They aren't too expensive for what they are.
Or you can use a cloud service. #FAPPENING
Or you can use a cloud service. #FAPPENING
Posted on 10/7/14 at 7:37 am to TigerFanatic99
cloud service works best for my needs.
My pictures/videos hold sentimental value and are not replaceable thus I am not willing to risk storing them on something like an external drive that is prone to failure.
Just remember if you backup everything to your computer and an external device a single event can still wipe out both. (fire, power surge, flood, etc.)
I use Carbonite and I have been satisfied.
My pictures/videos hold sentimental value and are not replaceable thus I am not willing to risk storing them on something like an external drive that is prone to failure.
Just remember if you backup everything to your computer and an external device a single event can still wipe out both. (fire, power surge, flood, etc.)
I use Carbonite and I have been satisfied.
This post was edited on 10/7/14 at 7:39 am
Posted on 10/7/14 at 9:26 am to Grassy1
If you want to make sure they are not lost, get a NAS with mirrored drives. Optionally you can mirror the NAS to Google Drive/Dropbox/others.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 9:31 am to computerguy
quote:
I use Carbonite and I have been satisfied.
Cannot recommend Carbonite enough!!!!!
Absolutely the best $59 I spend a year. It has saved me from 2 hard drive crashes!
Posted on 10/7/14 at 10:04 am to Jimbeaux28
How much does carbonite cost? do they do referrals?
Posted on 10/7/14 at 10:06 am to Murtagh
Carbonite is $59/year for unlimited storage.
They do referrals but the terms escape me.
They do referrals but the terms escape me.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 12:08 pm to Jimbeaux28
Thanks for the feedback!
Another question occurred to me:
I want to share my GoPro files with a friend so that they can use and edit them.
If I were to use Carbonite, would she be able to access those files with her PC (vs my Mac), and would that also mean that she would have access to ALL of the files that I put on Carbonite? Probably so, huh?
Wondering if I might need to do both, Carbonite and an external hard drive.
How dependable are hard drives?
Another question occurred to me:
I want to share my GoPro files with a friend so that they can use and edit them.
If I were to use Carbonite, would she be able to access those files with her PC (vs my Mac), and would that also mean that she would have access to ALL of the files that I put on Carbonite? Probably so, huh?
Wondering if I might need to do both, Carbonite and an external hard drive.
How dependable are hard drives?
Posted on 10/7/14 at 12:21 pm to Jimbeaux28
I didn't know carbonite was so cheap. I kind of act as my own server at home, but wouldn't mind backing up certain things to someone else's cloud
Posted on 10/7/14 at 12:26 pm to Grassy1
quote:
How dependable are hard drives?
Their lifespan is between 15 seconds and 15 years. Every day is a blessing for the mechanical hard drive.
But, they are still pretty standard for home backup. The important thing is redundancy. Having files in at least 2-3 separate drives increases dependability significantly, but as computerguy said, there's always the possibility of a freak accident wiping out everything at once, so the most ideal backup solution for the absolutely irreplaceable files (pics and videos of your family, for instance) is a couple of forms of physical media + some sort of off-site backup.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 12:30 pm to ILikeLSUToo
I'm going all out when I build my house in a few years. Server with Raid 5. I'll have all my media there accessible from anywhere I have internet. And I want a smart home where I can control everything from room temp to lighting to TVs.
Posted on 10/7/14 at 12:44 pm to ell_13
I want a spaceship and a bat cave.
#poorpeopleproblems
#poorpeopleproblems
Posted on 10/7/14 at 12:45 pm to ILikeLSUToo
I can dream can't I?
Posted on 10/7/14 at 12:55 pm to Jimbeaux28
quote:
Absolutely the best $59 I spend a year. It has saved me from 2 hard drive crashes!
You work for the IRS?
Posted on 10/7/14 at 1:32 pm to surprisewitness
quote:
If you want to make sure they are not lost, get a NAS with mirrored drives. Optionally you can mirror the NAS to Google Drive/Dropbox/others.
A Drobo would be easier for the lay user. LINK
Posted on 10/8/14 at 3:37 pm to Grassy1
To have access to any files in your Carbonite backup, they would need your account login info, which gives them access to all the files in your backup.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 3:43 pm to ILikeLSUToo
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freak accident wiping out everything at once
One of my hard drive crashes was due to a lightning strike that fried every computer in my house, even though all were behind surge protectors.
Learned then that you need a UPS to truly protect your computers.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 3:57 pm to Grassy1
Crashplan >> Carbonite
Posted on 10/8/14 at 4:02 pm to ILikeLSUToo
quote:
I didn't know carbonite was so cheap.
I use it and it's great. My only issue with truly long term cloud storage is what if the company goes out of business?
I just checked. I've got 13,720 family pictures going back to the last 15 years uploaded to Fotki. It used to be really popular but I never hear of anyone using it any longer so I wonder if it will still around 5-10 years from now.
In the meantime I don't know of any easy way to down load all those pics to a hard drive or to just transfer them to another cloud service as a backup.
I'm hoping there's some sort of "grabber" program or some such. Otherwise I'd literally have to do them one at a time.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 4:18 pm to Jimbeaux28
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freak accident wiping out everything at once
i got a good one.
bought a RAID2(?) or whatever that has a controller and 2 hard drives that are mirrored.
was happy as a peach..hot swappable and all that jazz..one goes out, just replace it and within a day or so everyhing is back.
all great...right?? RIGHT?
nope, my nanny at the time had a little 12mo old baby who she let crawl over to my home PC (while i was at work), grab the external RAID off the shelf and repeatedly WHACK it on the ground..not only destroying the controller card but corrupting data on both drives.
This post was edited on 10/8/14 at 4:19 pm
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