JohnGalway
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- Connemara, Ireland
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?
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.
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.
Again depends on situation/chosen hardware.Which RAID is most sensible please?
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.
Cloud then. With one of the big players. I can’t see Google having problems, personally. And keep a local copy on disc too, as belts and braces.Pretty important, I'm nervous enough about the SD cards already