Best way to store over 1TB of photos and videos
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I have a 3 years old daughter, and now a new born baby, from the past 3 years I have over 1 TB of photos and videos, from my experience hard disk will just fail with no reasons and signs, my usual way of storing those precious files is to use 2 USB hard disks, and keep them synchronized with MS SyncToy, and recently I added on more hard disk, so I am keep 3 copies of all those files. But now I am thinking that after all, all 3 drives are still located at home, I can only prevent bad sectors problem but not from accident like a fire break. I checked the price of those online storage, dropbox charge $579 per year for unlimited storage, and google drive charge $50 per month, if I am going to keep those growing size of photos and videos until they are 18 years old, that would be a lot of money. Anyone here having the same problem like mine? Having trouble on keeping large volume of files that you cannot afford to lose?
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I have a 3 years old daughter, and now a new born baby, from the past 3 years I have over 1 TB of photos and videos, from my experience hard disk will just fail with no reasons and signs, my usual way of storing those precious files is to use 2 USB hard disks, and keep them synchronized with MS SyncToy, and recently I added on more hard disk, so I am keep 3 copies of all those files. But now I am thinking that after all, all 3 drives are still located at home, I can only prevent bad sectors problem but not from accident like a fire break. I checked the price of those online storage, dropbox charge $579 per year for unlimited storage, and google drive charge $50 per month, if I am going to keep those growing size of photos and videos until they are 18 years old, that would be a lot of money. Anyone here having the same problem like mine? Having trouble on keeping large volume of files that you cannot afford to lose?
You are right - it's not a case of "if" a HDD will fail so much as "when" - they are mechanical devices, so they are definitely subject to mechanical wear and tear! They normally do give you some warning (most have SMART status which is available to read) and if you look here http://superuser.com/questions/29240/how-can-i-read-my-hard-drives-smart-status-in-windows-7[^] some of the tools available can look at the SMART status on USB drives. What I have is a RAID 5 NAS: three (soon to be four) SATA HDDs in a box connected to my network which stripes the data across the disks, so a single disk failure will not lose any data - it can be rebuilt from any two (or three) disks. This lets me have my data available all the time, and still pretty safe. This gets archived to a portable drive which doesn't live in the building, and which visits monthly to be updated, and critical data gets uploaded to my website on a regular basis (but not a lot of data, since upload is painfully slow round here: 1Mbit/s is good, so 1TB would take forever to upload to any cloud based service)
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I have a 3 years old daughter, and now a new born baby, from the past 3 years I have over 1 TB of photos and videos, from my experience hard disk will just fail with no reasons and signs, my usual way of storing those precious files is to use 2 USB hard disks, and keep them synchronized with MS SyncToy, and recently I added on more hard disk, so I am keep 3 copies of all those files. But now I am thinking that after all, all 3 drives are still located at home, I can only prevent bad sectors problem but not from accident like a fire break. I checked the price of those online storage, dropbox charge $579 per year for unlimited storage, and google drive charge $50 per month, if I am going to keep those growing size of photos and videos until they are 18 years old, that would be a lot of money. Anyone here having the same problem like mine? Having trouble on keeping large volume of files that you cannot afford to lose?
I am in pretty much your situation - have about 1 TB of data, but it's photos, documents, movies, songs, etc. 2 external hard disks, but yeah, can go away in a fire or burglary. The data that actually means a lot to me is smaller, maybe a few hundred GB. But since you are looking for only photos and videos, :) Flickr now offers 1 TB of space for free: http://www.flickr.com/help/limits/[^]
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I have a 3 years old daughter, and now a new born baby, from the past 3 years I have over 1 TB of photos and videos, from my experience hard disk will just fail with no reasons and signs, my usual way of storing those precious files is to use 2 USB hard disks, and keep them synchronized with MS SyncToy, and recently I added on more hard disk, so I am keep 3 copies of all those files. But now I am thinking that after all, all 3 drives are still located at home, I can only prevent bad sectors problem but not from accident like a fire break. I checked the price of those online storage, dropbox charge $579 per year for unlimited storage, and google drive charge $50 per month, if I am going to keep those growing size of photos and videos until they are 18 years old, that would be a lot of money. Anyone here having the same problem like mine? Having trouble on keeping large volume of files that you cannot afford to lose?
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I have a 3 years old daughter, and now a new born baby, from the past 3 years I have over 1 TB of photos and videos, from my experience hard disk will just fail with no reasons and signs, my usual way of storing those precious files is to use 2 USB hard disks, and keep them synchronized with MS SyncToy, and recently I added on more hard disk, so I am keep 3 copies of all those files. But now I am thinking that after all, all 3 drives are still located at home, I can only prevent bad sectors problem but not from accident like a fire break. I checked the price of those online storage, dropbox charge $579 per year for unlimited storage, and google drive charge $50 per month, if I am going to keep those growing size of photos and videos until they are 18 years old, that would be a lot of money. Anyone here having the same problem like mine? Having trouble on keeping large volume of files that you cannot afford to lose?
You need to clean up all those photographs. Keep only the good ones Create a hard copy book (blurb ,...) with the best images from each years. When that is done, it will make it easier to clean up your collection further When that is done , no need for terrAbyte storage :)
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I have a 3 years old daughter, and now a new born baby, from the past 3 years I have over 1 TB of photos and videos, from my experience hard disk will just fail with no reasons and signs, my usual way of storing those precious files is to use 2 USB hard disks, and keep them synchronized with MS SyncToy, and recently I added on more hard disk, so I am keep 3 copies of all those files. But now I am thinking that after all, all 3 drives are still located at home, I can only prevent bad sectors problem but not from accident like a fire break. I checked the price of those online storage, dropbox charge $579 per year for unlimited storage, and google drive charge $50 per month, if I am going to keep those growing size of photos and videos until they are 18 years old, that would be a lot of money. Anyone here having the same problem like mine? Having trouble on keeping large volume of files that you cannot afford to lose?
I have 12TB of storage for ebooks, music, photos and videos on-line. I have another 12TB (USB 6x2TB) on the same server that are used as mirror copies (using a batch job and Robocopy). I have another 12TB (USB 6x2TB) which I switch out with the backup 12TB set every now and then (depending on how much I have added recently) and keep at a friend's house. He keeps his backups at my house. We live far enough apart that it would take a major natural disaster to take us both out. I was going to use a safe deposit box at a bank but that cost too much and I didn't trust any bank with my most precious memories. I also have free SkyDrive, DropBox and GoogleDrive accounts with enough capacity for really important documents and photos (and a recording of my son's voice when he was a baby) with all the files stored on all the on-line accounts. I might get a free Flickr account soon.
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I have a 3 years old daughter, and now a new born baby, from the past 3 years I have over 1 TB of photos and videos, from my experience hard disk will just fail with no reasons and signs, my usual way of storing those precious files is to use 2 USB hard disks, and keep them synchronized with MS SyncToy, and recently I added on more hard disk, so I am keep 3 copies of all those files. But now I am thinking that after all, all 3 drives are still located at home, I can only prevent bad sectors problem but not from accident like a fire break. I checked the price of those online storage, dropbox charge $579 per year for unlimited storage, and google drive charge $50 per month, if I am going to keep those growing size of photos and videos until they are 18 years old, that would be a lot of money. Anyone here having the same problem like mine? Having trouble on keeping large volume of files that you cannot afford to lose?
Keep only 10%
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You are right - it's not a case of "if" a HDD will fail so much as "when" - they are mechanical devices, so they are definitely subject to mechanical wear and tear! They normally do give you some warning (most have SMART status which is available to read) and if you look here http://superuser.com/questions/29240/how-can-i-read-my-hard-drives-smart-status-in-windows-7[^] some of the tools available can look at the SMART status on USB drives. What I have is a RAID 5 NAS: three (soon to be four) SATA HDDs in a box connected to my network which stripes the data across the disks, so a single disk failure will not lose any data - it can be rebuilt from any two (or three) disks. This lets me have my data available all the time, and still pretty safe. This gets archived to a portable drive which doesn't live in the building, and which visits monthly to be updated, and critical data gets uploaded to my website on a regular basis (but not a lot of data, since upload is painfully slow round here: 1Mbit/s is good, so 1TB would take forever to upload to any cloud based service)
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
OriginalGriff wrote:
They normally do give you some warning (most have SMART status which is available to read) and if you look here http://superuser.com/questions/29240/how-can-i-read-my-hard-drives-smart-status-in-windows-7[^] some of the tools available can look at the SMART status on USB drives.
Hey Griff, that's useless... SMART is completely useless... Do not trust them, they might fail even without a warning.:~
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I have a 3 years old daughter, and now a new born baby, from the past 3 years I have over 1 TB of photos and videos, from my experience hard disk will just fail with no reasons and signs, my usual way of storing those precious files is to use 2 USB hard disks, and keep them synchronized with MS SyncToy, and recently I added on more hard disk, so I am keep 3 copies of all those files. But now I am thinking that after all, all 3 drives are still located at home, I can only prevent bad sectors problem but not from accident like a fire break. I checked the price of those online storage, dropbox charge $579 per year for unlimited storage, and google drive charge $50 per month, if I am going to keep those growing size of photos and videos until they are 18 years old, that would be a lot of money. Anyone here having the same problem like mine? Having trouble on keeping large volume of files that you cannot afford to lose?
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I have a 3 years old daughter, and now a new born baby, from the past 3 years I have over 1 TB of photos and videos, from my experience hard disk will just fail with no reasons and signs, my usual way of storing those precious files is to use 2 USB hard disks, and keep them synchronized with MS SyncToy, and recently I added on more hard disk, so I am keep 3 copies of all those files. But now I am thinking that after all, all 3 drives are still located at home, I can only prevent bad sectors problem but not from accident like a fire break. I checked the price of those online storage, dropbox charge $579 per year for unlimited storage, and google drive charge $50 per month, if I am going to keep those growing size of photos and videos until they are 18 years old, that would be a lot of money. Anyone here having the same problem like mine? Having trouble on keeping large volume of files that you cannot afford to lose?
If you are not comfortable with the online/cloud option, you can always put some hdd's inside a safety box in a bank. Not much money and you are "safe". PS: Just in case you don't want to see your pictures spread on the web the day any rules of the online storage change... or in case you are paranoid AND trust banks :~ You could also keep the HDD's in your work office... At you parents house, ...
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If you are not comfortable with the online/cloud option, you can always put some hdd's inside a safety box in a bank. Not much money and you are "safe". PS: Just in case you don't want to see your pictures spread on the web the day any rules of the online storage change... or in case you are paranoid AND trust banks :~ You could also keep the HDD's in your work office... At you parents house, ...
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as a semi pro photographer and a full time geek programmer. I have a bit of experience with this. For my "clients" I put their pictures into my online sharing area for them. For all the "stuff" that I have for supporting raw files, avi videos, etc. I have about 4 rotating USB harddrives. I pair them up. 2 gb each. I keep copies of everything in duplication on each of them. I rotate and check them on a regular basis(weekly sometimes daily). I keep one set at the Office and one set at home. No matter what I am safe. If I would happen to have an accident (harddrive failure, fire at home, water damage at office etc...) The first thing I would do is buy a replacement harddrives and copy them to have 2 copies of everything all the time. about to run out of room on 2nd set so will be moving to the 3rd set. Just my .02. I like online but I don't "trust" it at all. my livelyhood in soo many ways is on those harddrives. I will not ever allow myself any exposure for losing that information.
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I have a 3 years old daughter, and now a new born baby, from the past 3 years I have over 1 TB of photos and videos, from my experience hard disk will just fail with no reasons and signs, my usual way of storing those precious files is to use 2 USB hard disks, and keep them synchronized with MS SyncToy, and recently I added on more hard disk, so I am keep 3 copies of all those files. But now I am thinking that after all, all 3 drives are still located at home, I can only prevent bad sectors problem but not from accident like a fire break. I checked the price of those online storage, dropbox charge $579 per year for unlimited storage, and google drive charge $50 per month, if I am going to keep those growing size of photos and videos until they are 18 years old, that would be a lot of money. Anyone here having the same problem like mine? Having trouble on keeping large volume of files that you cannot afford to lose?
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I have a 3 years old daughter, and now a new born baby, from the past 3 years I have over 1 TB of photos and video...f I am going to keep those growing size of photos and videos until they are 18 years old, that would be a lot of money.
You do realize of course that a rough estimate of your final storage is 12 TB? That is ((1TB/3years)*18year)*2). So if you handle the storage yourself via hardware you would need 24 TB. This of course presumes that there are no more children nor grand children. Also keep in mind that cloud based services are businesses - not absolutes. They can and have ceased business without warning.
