Video storage options?

rollestonpark

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Arable Farmer
Location
Burton on trent
It's very much personal preference, but I like to use a NAS (network attached storage) device, such as Qnap or synology.
I store most of my data there and share it to all my network devices.
You can sync all or parts of the NAS data to the cloud as well if that's what you want, but we don't have sufficient broadband speed to sync any quantity of data to the cloud. So that's not something I do.
I got a 8 bay Qnap drive some years ago and put 3x 2TB hard drives into it (as a RAID5) and it's been running continuously. I did have 1 of the drives fail after about 1.5 years and I got that replaced under warranty. But with it being a RAID5, any 1 drive can fail without data loss, then you can hot swap it, and it'll rebuild automatically. So when I fill these drives, I can just add more 2TB drives as I go along.
 

Chris F

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Media
Location
Hammerwich
It's very much personal preference, but I like to use a NAS (network attached storage) device, such as Qnap or synology.
I store most of my data there and share it to all my network devices.
You can sync all or parts of the NAS data to the cloud as well if that's what you want, but we don't have sufficient broadband speed to sync any quantity of data to the cloud. So that's not something I do.
I got a 8 bay Qnap drive some years ago and put 3x 2TB hard drives into it (as a RAID5) and it's been running continuously. I did have 1 of the drives fail after about 1.5 years and I got that replaced under warranty. But with it being a RAID5, any 1 drive can fail without data loss, then you can hot swap it, and it'll rebuild automatically. So when I fill these drives, I can just add more 2TB drives as I go along.

As above have a Western Ditigal 4 bay. A bit like this one: https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-...tm_term=WDBWZE0160KBK-EESN#WDBWZE0160KBK-EESN

I would recommend Raid11. Then when a drive fails (and they do), you just pull it out and put a new one in. 4x6TB would give you 12 TB of storage. Which is loads.
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
It's very much personal preference, but I like to use a NAS (network attached storage) device, such as Qnap or synology.
I store most of my data there and share it to all my network devices.
You can sync all or parts of the NAS data to the cloud as well if that's what you want, but we don't have sufficient broadband speed to sync any quantity of data to the cloud. So that's not something I do.
I got a 8 bay Qnap drive some years ago and put 3x 2TB hard drives into it (as a RAID5) and it's been running continuously. I did have 1 of the drives fail after about 1.5 years and I got that replaced under warranty. But with it being a RAID5, any 1 drive can fail without data loss, then you can hot swap it, and it'll rebuild automatically. So when I fill these drives, I can just add more 2TB drives as I go along.
As above have a Western Ditigal 4 bay. A bit like this one: https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-...tm_term=WDBWZE0160KBK-EESN#WDBWZE0160KBK-EESN

I would recommend Raid11. Then when a drive fails (and they do), you just pull it out and put a new one in. 4x6TB would give you 12 TB of storage. Which is loads.

Which RAID is most sensible please?
 

rollestonpark

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Burton on trent
Which RAID is most sensible please?
Again depends on situation/chosen hardware.
In my case with an 8 bay NAS, I like RAID5:
it requires a minimum of 3 drives to work of the same size.
the lost of space is equal to 1 drive.
1 drive can fail without data loss.
adding more drives means getting the extra space, since only 1 drives space is lost, so 4 drives would mean 1 drive's space is wasted, 5 drives still means 1 drive is wasted etc.

RAID1 is a mirrored drive, so in a 2 bay nas, it's just a mirror.
RAID6 is like RAID5, but 2 drives can fail at once without data loss, but you lose 2 drives worth of space.
 

Highland Mule

Member
Livestock Farmer
I have pretty much filled every device and memory card I own with video. Now I'm wondering what to do re storage, cloud, external HD?

How important is it to keep? If you can tolerate some losses, and don’t expect to need it for ever, then maybe try recordable DVDs - certainly going to be cost effective, I’d have thought.
 

Cowabunga

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Location
Ceredigion,Wales
I import all videos to the Photos app on my iMac, which is actually stored on an external SSD drive. This is copied periodically to another external drive, along with all other files using the standard Apple Time Machine. All photographs and videos are also copied to iCloud and so are available on all my devices everywhere. I pay for several terabytes of iCloud storage backup and also for Office documents using Microsoft365 which also gives me MS OneDrive cloud storage.

I always make a habit of having at least two copies of every original. When it comes to photos and videos, which are now basically indistinguishable using today's storage technology, I copy to the computer and as soon as that has been confirmed successful and Time Machine actuated [it can be set to automatically back up but that was just too often for the amount of work I do], the original files on the SD cards are deleted by formatting the card. The timing of the formatting actually depends on the capacity of the cards, because I never want to run out of card space in my devices while using them. I have older cards of 16GB and have only kept a few 8GB ones as reserves. Over the last two years I have bought only 64GB and 128GB cards which hold a massive number of RAW files and many many hours of video.

Google charge for any significant bulk of video these day and I am not too keen on either Google or Amazon for my cloud storage even though I have masses of Amazon storage as part of my Prime Account.

Should mention that if using Apple computer, then the Photos app automatically stores videos in their own folder as well as in a mixed folder sorted according to uploading date and another where the date is when the images were taken. Only one image or video file but it is automatically sorted into several different organised ways to view it/them. You can also create a themed file and choose which items to also store in that/those for easy future reference.

I'm sure Microsoft have something similar. I know that they have a built-in backup system where all you need do is activate and use it.
 

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