What does your data storage look like?

20tb?

wtf are you backing up? the interwebs :D

i digress. Since SO & I started doing wedding photography, RAW files eat up space like you cant believe.

As it stands currently (i'm a lightweight in this thread)

- 2 workstations back up to Synology NAS (2tb), and NAS backs up to an external 2tb hd.
- Google photos for mobile phone pics
- Dropbox for day to day docs and work stuff.

Thoughts on blueray as a backup?

Considering an external Blueray burner for archiving client photos. A typical event is about 15 to 20gigs. So 1 BR disc should suffice. Thinking to burn 2 copies. One at home and one stored at my folks place up the road from us.
 
Wtf are you guys storing, Blue Ray rips?

How often is this backed up content rewatched or reused?

I've noticed a pattern over the last few years, I watch once and then never again is pretty much the default.

There's so much amazing new content constantly being released, there's no time to rewatch old media and the chances you'll wash up on a desert island with your external hdd en tow and find a media player connected to a nice HD flat screen to rewatch all that cinema gold is just about zero.

That's why cloud media is so awesome, they store all that schit on their computers, keep a perfect record of what you've already watched and then do amazing things with that dataset that help you explore more content or just remind you what you've already seen.
 
1TB and 3TB for games. 500gb ssd for OS drive. 128GB SSD for CS:GO. 30GB Google Drive for documents. Don't like keeping important documents on Hard drive at all.
 
Phew, just looking at all this makes me feel like an infant! Meh, not so concerned anyway - don't game much. Client stuff is on the laptop 1tb, synced over two clouds (local: Nextcloud; int.: OneDrive). Everything else: scattered over 4 1tb crappy things that, I'm sure, are reaching EOL one of these days. :crylaugh:
 
Just started with Unraid. What lovely software. Got a couple of WD reds and mix of older drives. Now just out of SATA ports.
 
Sounds like you guys are primarily doing harddrives.

idk my storage needs have shrunk from 3-4 tb to <500gigs thanks to streaming and ever present internet.

Just discovered photos don't count towards free google photo limit if they're above 16 MP. Damn

signates said:
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.
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Yeah that's my thinking too...don't mind spending a bit of money to prevent that.

wabbit16 said:
I only really stress about the irreplaceable stuff which amounts to not even 100GB
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Same. The handful of linux isos I can always get again.
 
I'm in the process of rethinking and streamlining my setup.
Currently I have:
Windows PC with 256 GB SSD for OS and apps, 2 TB HDD for media.
iMac with 1 TB HDD
MacBook Pro with 256 GB SSD
2x 3 TB external HDD's.
1TB Microsoft One Drive, 15 GB Google drive, 1 TB Dropbox, 50 GB iCloud drive and a 1 computer unlimited Crashplan cloud backup plan.

Firstly I want to cut down on the cloud services, I'm leaning over towards iCloud drive since I'm mostly using Apple devices these days. I already stopped my 1 TB Dropbox and I think I'm going to get myself the 2 TB iCloud drive plan.
The 1 TB One Drive comes with my Office 365 sub but I don't really use it, I also don't really use my 15 GB Google Drive which is free. In effect I'll only be paying for 1 cloud service, $10 per month for 2 TB iCloud.
The Crashplan I use as a ultimate backup should everything else go totally wrong, as a last resort, all my data gets stored in it.
 
Just to mention, this thread made me think of this video.

[video=youtube_share;1MzRNGlDcLs]https://youtu.be/1MzRNGlDcLs[/video]

One day, my setup will look like that. :o
 
froot said:
My last photo shoot took up 60GB of space. This needs to be backed up too.... can't risk my photos disappearing on me.
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You save everything in case/for posterity, the gold and the slag?
 
airborne said:
You save everything in case/for posterity, the gold and the slag?
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Might as well.

I'm shooting everything in max res Raw+JPG just in case. And don't have the time to go through it and delete the bad pics. Storage is cheap after all.
 
256GB SSD for OS and apps
6TB Storage
1.1TB Google Drive that backs up personal pictures and documents.

Laptop 256GB SSD
500GB Storage

Sad to say, i don't really own an external harddrive.
 
signates said:
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.
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True.

Looking at Sia now. Data costs is fck cheap and seems incredibly secure since it's spread over the world.
 
4x 500GB Samsung SSDs in RAID 0 for boot drive, because I can.
1x4TB to backups steamapps/origin games and some data.
1x5TB for PLEX media. As soon as I have fibre, things will move to the cloud.
 
3 x MicroServers @ 12 Tb each = 36Tb
6 PCs @ 8Tb each = 48 Tb

Total = 84 Tb

Note: This is for a family of 5 - 3 of whom are heavy gamers.
Wife runs her business from home.
Doesn't include external storage or cloud storage.
 
500Gb HDD in macbook pro --- work
1TB external HDD --- movies/tv series/backups
64GB flashdrive --- to be plugged into TV
64GB on phone --- mostly podcasts
7GB in cloud on Google drive -- backup of important work.
 
4x1tb in Raid 0 and onedrive for docs
 
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My personal stuff is less than 1 TB (only the photos and a few documents are important). Backed up on four hard drives.

Work stuff runs to a couple of terabytes. Backed up on two drives and cloud storage.
 
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