What does your data storage look like?

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Cloud? Local server? SSDs? HDDs? Externals? Backup service?

My stuff is complete chaos (bit of icloud, bit of google drive, ext, and 256gb SSD on laptop is full) so looking for some inspiration as to how to sort it out.

Currently think is throw it all on a cloud without sync & then just mirror it on a second cloud. Most photos.
 
1Tb HDD for Work laptop, MAC.
256GB SSD home, OS drive and gaming, Win 7.
10 x 2 Tb Raid 1 array for porn, Mint.
No cloud - weekly backup x 2 and offsite storage.
 
This was a couple years ago - the pile has increased dramatically. Mostly the smaller portables now since they take up less space. :o

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256gb ssd for os and apps. 1tb internal hdd for game installs. 6tb internal for my media. 2tb external for my backups
 
4x Micro Servers running 5x 10tb each

2x Mirrored Clusters of Micro-Servers with code and 2x Seperate for series. More Asian than local. Difficult to buy them on bluray.

And I still have a backup of Sierra Games and Montezuma's revenge
 
lost my synology NAS a few months back to lightning(took out my UPS and NAS at the same time).

Drives were all OK, so re-purposed my Dell T20 as a NAS and to handle my downloads.
using 4 x 4 TB running unRAID.
1 Drive for parity and 3 as storage.

Rest of critical stuff go to 100GB google drive storage.
 
Actually busy sorting out my stuff now, but I've got two externals dedicated to photo storage, of which one is a backup drive. Then 512GB SSDs for my internals (laptop and desktop), and another 6TB or so for my Steam games and watchables.
 
3 x WD Live NAS (2x3TB, 1X4TB) Sold 1 as I bought the Lenovo NAS. Only the one Lenovo currently has drives in it. Will be selling the rest when the second Lenovo NAS has drives in it.

1 x Lenovo NAS (4x4TB WD Red drives, Raid5, 12TB available space)

Backups to the Lenovo and work files, photos and home videos to 1TB OneDrive synced and weekly incremental backups.
 

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Thor187 said:
A lot of harddrive replication.
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After paying over R5k for data recovery on a failed drive, I'm not taking chances. If a drive fails, it gets chucked and no risk to my data.

Client data, family photos and videos are irreplaceably.
 
All my replaceable media (music, videos and series) is on my 1TB drive. No backup

Important doccies are on my laptop and desktop, mirrored and synced with Google Drive.

My photos are stored locally with an offsite backup that I update weekly and another offsite in another location that gets updated monthly.

Ideally I'd like to have everything in the cloud(s) for redundancy purposes but I only really stress about the irreplaceable stuff which amounts to not even 100GB
 
A lot of hoarders, here. :D
My pics goes to Google Photos, docs to Google Docs. The rest, video collections, gets deleted as soon as it's no longer watched.
 
Active data is replicated across machines using an www.owncloud.org instance.
Four drive Linux NAS running btrfs for bigger media and long tail archive storage.
Set of external drives that are rotated for offline periodic backups. Kept off site.
 
20TB NAS PC
1TB external
3 x gaming PC's have each 2TB
2 x Laptops with 1TB each

In the dark corners of my home some 20 odd old 160gb's
 
4 x 2Tb hard drives in an old Dell server + a few older drives that get swapped when needed.
 
Photos > Google Photos

Everything else is pretty much on my Microserver running UnRAID.

Odds and ends of important documents and such is on Google Drive, more for collaboration than anything else.
 
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